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 curious knowledge and strange conduct of my body's late tenant
troubled me more and more as I learned further details from persons,
papers, and magazines.
Queernesses that had baffled others seemed
to harmonize terribly with some background of black knowledge
which festered in the chasms of my subconscious. I began to search
feverishly for every scrap of information bearing on the studies
and travels of that other one during the dark years.
Not all
of my troubles were as semi-abstract as this. There were the dreams
- and these seemed to grow in vividness and concreteness. Knowing
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