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: head, dragon body, scaly wings, and hieroglyphed pedestal, was
preserved in the Museum at Hyde Park; and I studied it long and
well, finding it a thing of balefully exquisite workmanship, and
with the same utter mystery, terrible antiquity, and unearthly
strangeness of material which I had noted in Legrasse's smaller
specimen. Geologists, the curator told me, had found it a monstrous
puzzle; for they vowed that the world held no rock like it. Then
I thought with a shudder of what Old Castro had told Legrasse
about the Old Ones; "They had come from the stars, and had brought
Their images with Them."
Shaken with such a mental revolution
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