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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: included vivid travels over the mighty jungle roads, sojourns
in strange cities, and explorations of some of the vast, dark,
windowless ruins from which the Great Race shrank in curious fear.
There were also long sea voyages in enormous, many-decked boats
of incredible swiftness, and trips over wild regions in closed
projectile-like airships lifted and moved by electrical repulsion.
Beyond the wide, warm ocean were other cities of the Great Race,
and on one far continent I saw the crude villages of the black-snouted,
winged creatures who would evolve as a dominant stock after the
Great Race had sent its foremost minds into the future to escape
the creeping horror. Flatness and exuberant green life were always
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