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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: open space which made us gasp involuntarily - a perfect inverted
hemisphere, obviously deep underground; fully a hundred feet in
diameter and fifty feet high, with low archways opening around
all parts of the circumference but one, and that one yawning cavernously
with a black, arched aperture which broke the symmetry of the
vault to a height of nearly fifteen feet. It was the entrance
to the great abyss.
In this vast hemisphere, whose concave roof
was impressively though decadently carved to a likeness of the
primordial celestial dome, a few albino penguins waddled - aliens
there, but indifferent and unseeing. The black tunnel yawned indefinitely
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