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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Professor Angell was widely known as an authority on ancient inscriptions, and had frequently been resorted to by the heads of prominent museums;


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

so that his passing at the age of ninety-two may be recalled by many.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Locally, interest was intensified by the obscurity of the cause of death.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

The professor had been stricken whilst returning from the Newport boat; falling suddenly, as witnesses said, after having been jostled by a nautical-looking negro who had come from one of the queer dark courts on the precipitous hillside which formed a short cut from the waterfront to the deceased’s home in Williams Street.

(Note: I am quoting Lovecraft, this isn't my written work.)


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Physicians were unable to find any visible disorder, but concluded after perplexed debate that some obscure lesion of the heart, induced by the brisk ascent of so steep a hill by so elderly a man, was responsible for the end.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

At the time I saw no reason to dissent from this dictum, but latterly I am inclined to wonder—and more than wonder.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

As my grand-uncle’s heir and executor, for he died a childless widower, I was expected to go over his papers with some thoroughness;


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

and for that purpose moved his entire set of files and boxes to my quarters in Boston.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Much of the material which I correlated will be later published by the American Archaeological Society, but there was one box which I found exceedingly puzzling, and which I felt much averse from shewing to other eyes.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

It had been locked, and I did not find the key till it occurred to me to examine the personal ring which the professor carried always in his pocket.