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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: consciousness said they did not belong to the stranger, but were
specimens collected for bacteriological analysis in the course
of investigations on the transmission of germ diseases. He ordered
them burnt as soon as possible in the capacious fireplace. To
the police we both declared ignorance of our late companion’s
identity. He was, West nervously said, a congenial stranger whom
we had met at some downtown bar of uncertain location. We had
all been rather jovial, and West and I did not wish to have our
pugnacious companion hunted down.
That same night saw the beginning
of the second Arkham horror -- the horror that to me eclipsed
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