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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: casings.
The deeper - and the farther north and east - we dug,
the more blocks we found; though we still failed to discover any
trace of arrangement among them. Professor Dyer was appalled at
the measureless age of the fragments, and Freeborn found traces
of symbols which fitted darkly into certain Papuan and Polynesian
legends of infinite antiquity. The condition and scattering of
the blocks told mutely of vertiginous cycles of time and geologic
upheavals of cosmic savagery.
We had an aëroplane with us, and
my son Wingate would often go up to different heights and scan
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