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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: tension on our part became very great. We knew that there was
scarcely a chance for anything like complete success, and could
not avoid hideous fears at possible grotesque results of partial
animation. Especially were we apprehensive concerning the mind
and impulses of the creature, since in the space following death
some of the more delicate cerebral cells might well have suffered
deterioration. I, myself, still held some curious notions about
the traditional "soul" of man, and felt an awe at the secrets
that might be told by one returning from the dead. I wondered
what sights this placid youth might have seen in inaccessible
spheres, and what he could relate if fully restored to life. But
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