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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: many traditions of land construction. As we studied the architecture
of all these sculptured palaeogean cities, including that whose
aeon-dead corridors we were even then traversing, we were impressed
by a curious coincidence which we have not yet tried to explain,
even to ourselves. The tops of the buildings, which in the actual
city around us had, of course, been weathered into shapeless ruins
ages ago, were clearly displayed in the bas-reliefs, and showed
vast clusters of needle-like spires, delicate finials on certain
cone and pyramid apexes, and tiers of thin, horizontal scalloped
disks capping cylindrical shafts. This was exactly what we had
seen in that monstrous and portentous mirage, cast by a dead city
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