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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: which the gods held secret. And more, one might in certain cases
seize some well-loved child of a god as hostage; or even capture
some young god himself, disguised and dwelling amongst men with
a comely peasant maiden as his bride.
Atal, however, did not
know how to find Ngranek on its isle of Oriab; and recommended
that Carter follow the singing Skai under its bridges down to
the Southern Sea; where no burgess of Ulthar has ever been, but
whence the merchants come in boats or with long caravans of mules
and two-wheeled carts. There is a great city there, Dylath-Leen,
but in Ulthar its reputation is bad because of the black three-banked
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