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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: that four-and-a-half-hour flight is burned into my recollection
because of its crucial position in my life. It marked my loss,
at the age of fifty-four, of all that peace and balance which
the normal mind possesses through its accustomed conception of
external nature and nature’s laws. Thenceforward the ten of us
- but the student Danforth and myself above all others - were
to face a hideously amplified world of lurking horrors which nothing
can erase from our emotions, and which we would refrain from sharing
with mankind in general if we could. The newspapers have printed
the bulletins we sent from the moving plane, telling of our nonstop
course, our two battles with treacherous upper-air gales, our
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