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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: not penguins - and turned on our second torch after making sure
that the objects were quite stationary.
XI
Still another time
have I come to a place where it is very difficult to proceed.
I ought to be hardened by this stage; but there are some experiences
and intimations which scar too deeply to permit of healing, and
leave only such an added sensitiveness that memory reinspires
all the original horror. We saw, as I have said, certain obstructions
on the polished floor ahead; and I may add that our nostrils were
assailed almost simultaneously by a very curious intensification
 At the Mountains of Madness |