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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: own, and Carter saw that the bottle was a single hollowed ruby,
grotesquely carved in patterns too fabulous to be comprehended.
He offered his wine to his host, and though Carter took only the
least sip, he felt the dizziness of space and the fever of unimagined
jungles. All the while the guest had been smiling more and more
broadly, and as Carter slipped into blankness the last thing he
saw was that dark odious face convulsed with evil laughter and
something quite unspeakable where one of the two frontal puffs
of that orange turban had become disarranged with the shakings
of that epileptic mirth.
Carter next had consciousness amidst
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