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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: awful; Hill was unrecognisable afterward, but the wreck yielded
up the great surgeon in a nearly decapitated but otherwise intact
condition. West had greedily seized the lifeless thing which had
once been his friend and fellow-scholar; and I shuddered when
he finished severing the head, placed it in his hellish vat of
pulpy reptile-tissue to preserve it for future experiments, and
proceeded to treat the decapitated body on the operating table.
He injected new blood, joined certain veins, arteries, and nerves
at the headless neck, and closed the ghastly aperture with engrafted
skin from an unidentified specimen which had borne an officer’s
uniform. I knew what he wanted -- to see if this highly organised
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