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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: first time he had ever been able to revive the quality of rational
thought in a corpse; and his success, obtained at such a loathsome
cost, had completely hardened him.
Of his methods in the intervening
five years I dare not speak. I was held to him by sheer force
of fear, and witnessed sights that no human tongue could repeat.
Gradually I came to find Herbert West himself more horrible than
anything he did -- that was when it dawned on me that his once
normal scientific zeal for prolonging life had subtly degenerated
into a mere morbid and ghoulish curiosity and secret sense of
charnel picturesqueness. His interest became a hellish and perverse
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