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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: Orrendorf and Watkins, working underground at 9:45 with light,
found monstrous barrel-shaped fossil of wholly unknown nature;
probably vegetable unless overgrown specimen of unknown marine
radiata. Tissue evidently preserved by mineral salts. Tough as
leather, but astonishing flexibility retained in places. Marks
of broken-off parts at ends and around sides. Six feet end to
end, three and five-tenths feet central diameter, tapering to
one foot at each end. Like a barrel with five bulging ridges in
place of staves. Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are
at equator in middle of these ridges. In furrows between ridges
are curious growths - combs or wings that fold up and spread out
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