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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: fear of such things. They connect them in some way with their
common racial legends about Buddai, the gigantic old man who lies
asleep for ages underground with his head on his arm, and who
will some day awake and eat up the world.
There are some very
old and half-forgotten tales of enormous underground huts of great
stones, where passages lead down and down, and where horrible
things have happened. The blackfellows claim that once some warriors,
fleeing in battle, went down into one and never came back, but
that frightful winds began to blow from the place soon after they
went down. However, there usually isn't much in what these natives
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