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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: the noisome wharves ahead, and the better he saw them the worse
he began to fear and detest them. For they were not men at all,
or even approximately men, but great greyish-white slippery things
which could expand and contract at will, and whose principal shape
- though it often changed - was that of a sort of toad without
any eyes, but with a curious vibrating mass of short pink tentacles
on the end of its blunt, vague snout. These objects were waddling
busily about the wharves, moving bales and crates and boxes with
preternatural strength, and now and then hopping on or off some
anchored galley with long oars in their forepaws. And now and
then one would appear driving a herd of clumping slaves, which
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