The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: They would never really die. They all lay in stone houses in Their
great city of R'lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu
for a glorious surrection when the stars and the earth might once
more be ready for Them. But at that time some force from outside
must serve to liberate Their bodies. The spells that preserved
them intact likewise prevented Them from making an initial move,
and They could only lie awake in the dark and think whilst uncounted
millions of years rolled by. They knew all that was occurring
in the universe, for Their mode of speech was transmitted thought.
Even now They talked in Their tombs. When, after infinities of
chaos, the first men came, the Great Old Ones spoke to the sensitive
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