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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: at most the trilobite stage. These fragments, with their odd marking,
must have been five hundred million to a thousand million years
old.
II
Popular imagination, I judge, responded actively to
our wireless bulletins of Lake’s start northwestward into regions
never trodden by human foot or penetrated by human imagination,
though we did not mention his wild hopes of revolutionizing the
entire sciences of biology and geology. His preliminary sledging
and boring journey of January 11th to 18th with Pabodie and five
others - marred by the loss of two dogs in an upset when crossing
 At the Mountains of Madness |