Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 153 | I View more quotes about puzzled">puzzled to myself why Sarm might want Misk to be killed. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 150 | "I was too indulgent". |
| 14 | 151 | "Is it not possible," I asked, "that Sarm wished you to die by the Golden Beetle?" "Of course," said Misk. |
| 14 | 152 | "It was undoubtedly his intention". |
| 14 | 153 | I puzzled to myself why Sarm might want Misk to be killed. |
| 14 | 154 | Undoubtedly there was some type of rivalry or political division between them. |
| 14 | 155 | To my human mind, used to the cruelties with which selfish men can implement their schemes, I saw nothing incomprehensible in the fact that Sarm would have attempted to engineer Misk's death. |
| 14 | 156 | I would learn later, however, that this simple fact was indeed almost incomprehensible to Priest-Kings, and that Misk, though he readily accepted it as a fact in his mind, could not bring himself, so to speak, in the furthest reaches of his heart to acknowledge it as true, for were not both he and Sarm of the Nest, and would not such an action be a violation of Nest Trust? "Sarm is the First Born," said Misk, "whereas I am the Fifth Born. |
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"I was too indulgent".
"Is it not possible," I asked, "that Sarm wished you to die by the Golden Beetle?" "Of course," said Misk.
"It was undoubtedly his intention".
I puzzled to myself why Sarm might want Misk to be killed.
Undoubtedly there was some type of rivalry or political division between them.
To my human mind, used to the cruelties with which selfish men can implement their schemes, I saw nothing incomprehensible in the fact that Sarm would have attempted to engineer Misk's death.
I would learn later, however, that this simple fact was indeed almost incomprehensible to Priest-Kings, and that Misk, though he readily accepted it as a fact in his mind, could not bring himself, so to speak, in the furthest reaches of his heart to acknowledge it as true, for were not both he and Sarm of the Nest, and would not such an action be a violation of Nest Trust? "Sarm is the First Born," said Misk, "whereas I am the Fifth Born.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)