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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: a considerably lower depth.
But the salient object of the place
was the titanic stone ramp which, eluding the archways by a sharp
turn outward into the open floor, wound spirally up the stupendous
cylindrical wall like an inside counterpart of those once climbing
outside the monstrous towers or ziggurats of antique Babylon.
Only the rapidity of our flight, and the perspective which confounded
the descent with the tower’s inner wall, had prevented our noticing
this feature from the air, and thus caused us to seek another
avenue to the subglacial level. Pabodie might have been able to
tell what sort of engineering held it in place, but Danforth and
At the Mountains of Madness |
