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Parker

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The sailor who slipped during the flight to the boat and, as Johansen swears, was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn't have been there — acute, but behaving as if it were obtuse.

Parker slipped as the other three of the fleeing party were plunging frenziedly over endless vistas of green-crusted rock to the boat.

Johansen swears he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn't have been there — an angle which was acute, but behaved as if it were obtuse.

Fate — Swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn't have been there, as Johansen swears — an angle acute, but behaving as if it were obtuse.

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  • Parker slipped as the other three were plunging frenziedly over endless vistas of green-crusted rock to the boat, and Johansen swears he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn't have been there; an angle which was acute, but behaved as if it were obtuse.

    The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 3, The Madness from the Sea

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