Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 30 | 48 | Mahpiyasapa had made a View more quotes about suitable">suitable adjustment, implicitly drawing a distinction between true and false medicines, the medicine of the Kaiila presumably being true medicine, and that of the Yellow Knives false. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 30 | 45 | On the other hand, it was certainly not in the best interests of his position to promote the plausibility of Yellow-Knife medicine. |
| 30 | 46 | "It is false medicine!" called Mahpiyasapa. |
| 30 | 47 | "Do not fear it! It is only wood and leather!" I smiled again to myself. |
| 30 | 48 | Mahpiyasapa had made a suitable adjustment, implicitly drawing a distinction between true and false medicines, the medicine of the Kaiila presumably being true medicine, and that of the Yellow Knives false. |
| 30 | 49 | A more typical distinction would have been not between true and false medicines, but between weaker and stronger medicines. |
| 30 | 50 | The red savage is usually quite willing to grant that the enemy has medicine; it is his hope, however, of course, that his medicine will prove stronger. |
| 30 | 51 | On the other hand, if the medicine of the enemy was false medicine altogether, then what had he to fear? The test for the stronger medicine, incidentally, implicitly, appears to be victory or success. |
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On the other hand, it was certainly not in the best interests of his position to promote the plausibility of Yellow-Knife medicine.
"It is false medicine!" called Mahpiyasapa.
"Do not fear it! It is only wood and leather!" I smiled again to myself.
Mahpiyasapa had made a suitable adjustment, implicitly drawing a distinction between true and false medicines, the medicine of the Kaiila presumably being true medicine, and that of the Yellow Knives false.
A more typical distinction would have been not between true and false medicines, but between weaker and stronger medicines.
The red savage is usually quite willing to grant that the enemy has medicine; it is his hope, however, of course, that his medicine will prove stronger.
On the other hand, if the medicine of the enemy was false medicine altogether, then what had he to fear? The test for the stronger medicine, incidentally, implicitly, appears to be victory or success.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)