Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 29 | 66 | View more quotes about rather">Rather they continued to concentrate on their instruments. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 29 | 63 | I could see the scanners mounted in the nose of the ships probing about. |
| 29 | 64 | But I was nowhere to be found. |
| 29 | 65 | From this distance I could see hatches in the ships, on the top, and there was sufficient oxygen in the complex to permit exposed visual observation, but none of the Priest-Kings peered out of any of the hatches. |
| 29 | 66 | Rather they continued to concentrate on their instruments. |
| 29 | 67 | They must have been puzzled by the failure of the instrumentation to detect me. |
| 29 | 68 | Two hypotheses would seem most likely to explain this phenomenon to them, first that I had fled the complex, second that I was nestled among them, and I smiled to myself, for I was certain that the second hypothesis would never occur to a Priest-King, for it was too improbable and Priest-Kings were too rational a kind of creature. |
| 29 | 69 | For half a Gorean Ahn we hung there, none of us moving. |
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I could see the scanners mounted in the nose of the ships probing about.
But I was nowhere to be found.
From this distance I could see hatches in the ships, on the top, and there was sufficient oxygen in the complex to permit exposed visual observation, but none of the Priest-Kings peered out of any of the hatches.
Rather they continued to concentrate on their instruments.
They must have been puzzled by the failure of the instrumentation to detect me.
Two hypotheses would seem most likely to explain this phenomenon to them, first that I had fled the complex, second that I was nestled among them, and I smiled to myself, for I was certain that the second hypothesis would never occur to a Priest-King, for it was too improbable and Priest-Kings were too rational a kind of creature.
For half a Gorean Ahn we hung there, none of us moving.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)