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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: I will not attempt
to tell much of my life from 1908 to 1913, since readers may glean
I the outward essentials - as I largely had to do - from files
of old newspapers and scientific journals.
I was given charge
of my funds, and spent them slowly and on the whole wisely, in
travel and in study at various centres of learning. My travels,
however, were singular in the extreme, involving long visits to
remote and desolate places.
In 1909 I spent a month in the Himalayas,
and in 1911 roused much attention through a camel trip into the
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