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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: There were several of the blind albino penguins in the open space,
and it seemed clear that their fear of the oncoming entity was
extreme to the point of unaccountability. If at that point we
dimmed our torch to the very lowest limit of traveling need, keeping
it strictly in front of us, the frightened squawking motions of
the huge birds in the mist might muffle our footfalls, screen
our true course, and somehow set up a false lead. Amidst the churning,
spiraling fog, the littered and unglistening floor of the main
tunnel beyond this point, as differing from the other morbidly
polished burrows, could hardly form a highly distinguishing feature;
even, so far as we could conjecture, for those indicated special
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