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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: had continued to perform certain secret tests in his dingy boarding-house
room, and had on one terrible and unforgettable occasion taken
a human body from its grave in the potter’s field to a deserted
farmhouse beyond Meadow Hill.
I was with him on that odious
occasion, and saw him inject into the still veins the elixir which
he thought would to some extent restore life’s chemical and physical
processes. It had ended horribly -- in a delirium of fear which
we gradually came to attribute to our own overwrought nerves --
and West had never afterward been able to shake off a maddening
sensation of being haunted and hunted. The body had not been quite
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