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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: enlarged and often capped with tiers of thinnish scalloped disks;
and strange beetling, table-like constructions suggesting piles
of multitudinous rectangular slabs or circular plates or five-pointed
stars with each one overlapping the one beneath. There were composite
cones and pyramids either alone or surmounting cylinders or cubes
or flatter truncated cones and pyramids, and occasional needle-like
spires in curious clusters of five. All of these febrile structures
seemed knit together by tubular bridges crossing from one to the
other at various dizzy heights, and the implied scale of the whole
was terrifying and oppressive in its sheer gigantism. The general
type of mirage was not unlike some of the wilder forms observed
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