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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: whilst in lieu of a tail there depended a kind of trunk or feeler
with purple annular markings, and with many evidences of being
an undeveloped mouth or throat. The limbs, save for their black
fur, roughly resembled the hind legs of prehistoric earth's giant
saurians, and terminated in ridgy-veined pads that were neither
hooves nor claws. When the thing breathed, its tail and tentacles
rhythmically changed colour, as if from some circulatory cause
normal to the non-human greenish tinge, whilst in the tail it
was manifest as a yellowish appearance which alternated with a
sickly grayish-white in the spaces between the purple rings. Of
genuine blood there was none; only the foetid greenish-yellow
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