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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: and in order to secure it had had to assume a military exterior.
What he wanted was not a thing which many persons want, but something
connected with the peculiar branch of medical science which he
had chosen quite clandestinely to follow, and in which he had
achieved amazing and occasionally hideous results. It was, in
fact, nothing more or less than an abundant supply of freshly
killed men in every stage of dismemberment.
Herbert West needed
fresh bodies because his life-work was the reanimation of the
dead. This work was not known to the fashionable clientele who
had so swiftly built up his fame after his arrival in Boston;
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