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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: chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release
the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was
centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate
nature. Human it could not have been -- it is not in man to make
such sounds -- and without a thought of our late employment or
its possible discovery, both West and I leaped to the nearest
window like stricken animals; overturning tubes, lamp, and retorts,
and vaulting madly into the starred abyss of the rural night.
I think we screamed ourselves as we stumbled frantically toward
the town, though as we reached the outskirts we put on a semblance
of restraint -- just enough to seem like belated revellers staggering
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