Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 40 | The Wagon View more quotes about peoples">Peoples, it is said, slay strangers. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 37 | Who knew with which people the object might have been placed? Perhaps it had been hidden away and forgotten? Perhaps it was now a sacred object, little understood, but revered—and it would be sacrilege to think of it, blasphemy to speak its name, a cruel and slow death even to cast one's eyes upon it. |
| 2 | 38 | And if I should manage to seize it, how could I carry it away? I had no tarn, one of Gor's fierce saddlebirds; I had not even the monstrous high tharlarion, used as the mounts of shock cavalry by the warriors of some cities. |
| 2 | 39 | I was afoot, on the treeless southern plains of Gor, on the Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
| 2 | 40 | The Wagon Peoples, it is said, slay strangers. |
| 2 | 41 | The words for stranger and enemy in Gorean are the same. |
| 2 | 42 | I would advance openly. |
| 2 | 43 | If I were found on the plains near the camps or the bosk herds I knew I would be scented out and slain by the domesticated, nocturnal herd sleen, used as shepherds and sentinels by the Wagon Peoples, released from their cages with the falling of darkness. |
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Who knew with which people the object might have been placed? Perhaps it had been hidden away and forgotten? Perhaps it was now a sacred object, little understood, but revered—and it would be sacrilege to think of it, blasphemy to speak its name, a cruel and slow death even to cast one's eyes upon it.
And if I should manage to seize it, how could I carry it away? I had no tarn, one of Gor's fierce saddlebirds; I had not even the monstrous high tharlarion, used as the mounts of shock cavalry by the warriors of some cities.
I was afoot, on the treeless southern plains of Gor, on the Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples.
The Wagon Peoples, it is said, slay strangers.
The words for stranger and enemy in Gorean are the same.
I would advance openly.
If I were found on the plains near the camps or the bosk herds I knew I would be scented out and slain by the domesticated, nocturnal herd sleen, used as shepherds and sentinels by the Wagon Peoples, released from their cages with the falling of darkness.
- (Nomads of Gor)