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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: I was West’s closest friend
and only confidential assistant. We had met years before, in medical
school, and from the first I had shared his terrible researches.
He had slowly tried to perfect a solution which, injected into
the veins of the newly deceased, would restore life; a labour
demanding an abundance of fresh corpses and therefore involving
the most unnatural actions. Still more shocking were the products
of some of the experiments -- grisly masses of flesh that had
been dead, but that West waked to a blind, brainless, nauseous
ammation. These were the usual results, for in order to reawaken
the mind it was necessary to have specimens so absolutely fresh
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