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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: of separate Cyclopean blocks which Lake had attributed to his
flight-companion Carroll. How to account for such things in this
place was frankly beyond me, and I felt queerly humbled as a geologist.
Igneous formations often have strange regularities - like the
famous Giants’ Causeway in Ireland - but this stupendous range,
despite Lake’s original suspicion of smoking cones, was above
all else nonvolcanic in evident structure.
The curious cave
mouths, near which the odd formations seemed most abundant, presented
another albeit a lesser puzzle because of their regularity of
outline. They were, as Lake’s bulletin had said, often approximately
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