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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: typified his whole conversation, and which I have since found
highly characteristic of him. He said, "It is new, indeed, for
I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams
are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or
garden-girdled Babylon."
It was then that he began that rambling
tale which suddenly played upon a sleeping memory and won the
fevered interest of my uncle. There had been a slight earthquake
tremor the night before, the most considerable felt in New England
for some years; and Wilcox's imagination had been keenly affected.
Upon retiring, he had had an unprecedented dream of great Cyclopean
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