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I wished I had had time to investigate certain of Misk's scent-charts, but even if I had had the time, I might not have found helpful charts and, anyway, my translator scanning them could read only labels. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 19, Sentence #67)

Rather than reveal this information he would undoubtedly prefer that I hack away at doomed Misk as though he were a block of insensate fungus. Not only would I not do this because of my affection for Misk but even if I intended to kill him I surely would not have done so in this manner, for it is not the way a trained warrior kills. I would expect to find the heart, or its correspondent organ or organs, in the thorax, but then I would have supposed that the respiratory cavities were also in the thorax and I knew that they were actually in the abdomen. I wished I had had time to investigate certain of Misk's scent-charts, but even if I had had the time, I might not have found helpful charts and, anyway, my translator scanning them could read only labels. It would be simpler, when I approached Misk with my sword in hand, to see if he would volunteer the information. For some reason I smiled as I considered this. "Will you accompany me," I asked, "to the slaying of Misk?" "No," said Sarm, "for it is Tola and I must give Gur to the Mother". - (Priest-Kings of Gor)