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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: and the experiment had succeeded for a brief and memorable moment;
but West had emerged with a soul calloused and seared, and a hardened
eye which sometimes glanced with a kind of hideous and calculating
appraisal at men of especially sensitive brain and especially
vigorous physique. Toward the last I became acutely afraid of
West, for he began to look at me that way. People did not seem
to notice his glances, but they noticed my fear; and after his
disappearance used that as a basis for some absurd suspicions.
West, in reality, was more afraid than I; for his abominable
pursuits entailed a life of furtiveness and dread of every shadow.
Partly it was the police he feared; but sometimes his nervousness
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