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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: we came upon a perfect section of carving, where no ambiguity
of interpretation could exist, it took only a brief study to give
us the hideous truth - a truth which it would be naive to claim
Danforth and I had not independently suspected before, though
we had carefully refrained from even hinting it to each other.
There could now be no further merciful doubt about the nature
of the beings which had built and inhabited this monstrous dead
city millions of years ago, when man’s ancestors were primitive
archaic mammals, and vast dinosaurs roamed the tropical steppes
of Europe and Asia.
We had previously clung to a desperate alternative
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