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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: seamen lingered in the taverns and traded in the bazaars of Celephais,
and before they sailed Carter had taken passage on their dark
ship, telling them that he was an old onyx miner and wishful to
work in their quarries. That ship was very lovey and cunningly
wrought, being of teakwood with ebony fittings and traceries of
gold, and the cabin in which the traveller lodged had hangings
of silk and velvet. One morning at the turn of the tide the sails
were raised and the anchor lilted, and as Carter stood on the
high stern he saw the sunrise-blazing walls and bronze statues
and golden minarets of ageless Celephais sink into the distance,
and the snowy peak of Mount Man grow smaller and smaller. By noon
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