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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: while still others have made me tremble and look behind me in
the dark; yet despite the worst of them I believe I can myself
relate the most hideous thing of all -- the shocking, the unnatural,
the unbelievable horror from the shadows.
In 1915 I was a physician
with the rank of First Lieutenant in a Canadian regiment in Flanders,
one of many Americans to precede the government itself into the
gigantic struggle. I had not entered the army on my own initiative,
but rather as a natural result of the enlistment of the man whose
indispensable assistant I was -- the celebrated Boston surgical
specialist, Dr. Herbert West. Dr. West had been avid for a chance
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