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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: a nuisance -- even the small guinea-pig bodies from the slight
clandestine experiments in West’s room at the boarding-house.
We followed the local death-notices like ghouls, for our specimens
demanded particular qualities. What we wanted were corpses interred
soon after death and without artificial preservation; preferably
free from malforming disease, and certainly with all organs present.
Accident victims were our best hope. Not for many weeks did we
hear of anything suitable; though we talked with morgue and hospital
authorities, ostensibly in the college’s interest, as often as
we could without exciting suspicion. We found that the college
had first choice in every case, so that it might be necessary
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