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: over a queer incubating burner, he kept a large covered vat full
of this reptilian cell-matter; which multiplied and grew puffily
and hideously.
On the night of which I speak we had a splendid
new specimen -- a man at once physically powerful and of such
high mentality that a sensitive nervous system was assured. It
was rather ironic, for he was the officer who had helped West
to his commission, and who was now to have been our associate.
Moreover, he had in the past secretly studied the theory of reanimation
to some extent under West. Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee,
D.S.O., was the greatest surgeon in our division, and had been
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