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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: aperture perhaps five feet across and three feet thick, there
yawned before the avid searchers a section of shallow limestone
hollowing worn more than fifty million years ago by the trickling
ground waters of a bygone tropic world.
The hollowed layer was
not more than seven or eight feet deep but extended off indefinitely
in all directions and had a fresh, slightly moving air which suggested
its membership in an extensive subterranean system. Its roof and
floor were abundantly equipped with large stalactites and stalagmites,
some of which met in columnar form: but important above all else
was the vast deposit of shells and bones, which in places nearly
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