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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: in my fright I lost the awesome object which would - if real and
brought out of that noxious abyss - have formed irrefutable evidence.
When I came upon the horror I was alone - and I have up to now
told no one about it. I could not stop the others from digging
in its direction, but chance and the shifting sand have so far
saved them from finding it. Now I must formulate some definite
statement - not only for the sake of my own mental balance, but
to warn such others as may read it seriously.
These pages -
much in whose earlier parts will be familiar to close readers
of the general and scientific press - are written in the cabin
Shadow out of Time | 
