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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: solution had truly accomplished, at least temporarily, its full
mission of restoring rational and articulate life to the dead.
But in that triumph there came to me the greatest of all horrors
-- not horror of the thing that spoke, but of the deed that I
had witnessed and of the man with whom my professional fortunes
were joined.
For that very fresh body, at last writhing into
full and terrifying consciousness with eyes dilated at the memory
of its last scene on earth, threw out its frantic hands in a life
and death struggle with the air, and suddenly collapsing into
a second and final dissolution from which there could be no return,
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