Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 11 | 44 | "He leaped out at me, from View more quotes about behind">behind a wagon, with his ax!" said the fellow. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 11 | 41 | Among folks as different as Tuchuks and Torvaldslanders, for example, poetry is seldom written down. |
| 11 | 42 | It is memorized and sung about the fires, and in the halls, and thus is carried on the literary tradition. |
| 11 | 43 | And poets such as Hurtha, it seemed to me, were even less likely to be deterred by illiteracy than many others. |
| 11 | 44 | "He leaped out at me, from behind a wagon, with his ax!" said the fellow. |
| 11 | 45 | "'I am a poet,' he announced, his ax at the ready. |
| 11 | 46 | 'Would you care to purchase a poem?' 'Yes!' cried I. |
| 11 | 47 | 'Write,' he then said, and dictated to me this poem, which I, for my very life, hastily scribbled on this slip of parchment". |
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Among folks as different as Tuchuks and Torvaldslanders, for example, poetry is seldom written down.
It is memorized and sung about the fires, and in the halls, and thus is carried on the literary tradition.
And poets such as Hurtha, it seemed to me, were even less likely to be deterred by illiteracy than many others.
"He leaped out at me, from behind a wagon, with his ax!" said the fellow.
"'I am a poet,' he announced, his ax at the ready.
'Would you care to purchase a poem?' 'Yes!' cried I.
'Write,' he then said, and dictated to me this poem, which I, for my very life, hastily scribbled on this slip of parchment".
- (Mercenaries of Gor)