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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and when I had seen him he was either in the fasting stage of his
existence in his rooms or, when he was bloated with fresh blood,
in a ruined building open to the air, but here the place was small
and close, and the long disuse had made the air stagnant and foul.
There was an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma, which came through
the fouler air. But as to the odor itself, how shall I describe it?
It was not alone that it was composed of all the ills of mortality and
with the pungent, acrid smell of blood, but it seemed as though corruption
had become itself corrupt. Faugh! It sickens me to think of it.
Every breath exhaled by that monster seemed to have clung to the place
and intensified its loathsomeness.
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