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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: specimen. Geologists, the curator told me, had found it a monstrous
puzzle; for they vowed that the world held no rock like it. Then
I thought with a shudder of what Old Castro had told Legrasse
about the Old Ones; "They had come from the stars, and had brought
Their images with Them."
Shaken with such a mental revolution
as I had never before known, I now resolved to visit Mate Johansen
in Oslo. Sailing for London, I reembarked at once for the Norwegian
capital; and one autumn day landed at the trim wharves in the
shadow of the Egeberg. Johansen's address, I discovered, lay in
the Old Town of King Harold Haardrada, which kept alive the name
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