Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 13 | Men conceive View more quotes about priest">Priest-Kings as they conceive themselves. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 10 | But why was it I who came? Why not Priest-Kings in their ships and power, with their fierce weapons and fantastic devices? Priest-Kings cannot stand the sun. |
| 2 | 11 | They are not as men and men, seeing them, would fear them. |
| 2 | 12 | Men would not believe they were Priest-Kings. |
| 2 | 13 | Men conceive Priest-Kings as they conceive themselves. |
| 2 | 14 | The object—the egg—might be destroyed before it could be delivered to them. |
| 2 | 15 | It might already have been destroyed. |
| 2 | 16 | Only that the egg was the egg of Priest-Kings gave me occasion to suspect, to hope, that somehow within that mysterious, presumably ovoid sphere, if it still existed, quiescent but latent, there might be life. |
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But why was it I who came? Why not Priest-Kings in their ships and power, with their fierce weapons and fantastic devices? Priest-Kings cannot stand the sun.
They are not as men and men, seeing them, would fear them.
Men would not believe they were Priest-Kings.
Men conceive Priest-Kings as they conceive themselves.
The object—the egg—might be destroyed before it could be delivered to them.
It might already have been destroyed.
Only that the egg was the egg of Priest-Kings gave me occasion to suspect, to hope, that somehow within that mysterious, presumably ovoid sphere, if it still existed, quiescent but latent, there might be life.
- (Nomads of Gor)