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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: the dark, windowless elder towers.
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That is the world of
which my dreams brought me dim, scattered echoes every night.
I cannot hope to give any true idea of the horror and dread contained
in such echoes, for it was upon a wholly intangible quality -
the sharp sense of pseudo-memory - that such feelings mainly depended.
As I have said, my studies gradually gave me a defence against
these feelings in the form of rational psychological explanations;
and this saving influence was augmented by the subtle touch of
accustomedness which comes with the passage of time. Yet in spite
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