Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 46 | On the View more quotes about street">Street of Coins they found it difficult even to arrange loans. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 43 | It seemed sad to me, that I, who knew so little of the game, could have so cheaply purchased the privilege of sitting across the board from such a master. |
| 3 | 44 | It seemed to me that men should pay a tarn disk of gold just to be permitted to watch such a master play, but such were not the economic realities of the game. |
| 3 | 45 | In spite of having the respect, even to some degree the adulation, of almost all Goreans, the Players lived poorly. |
| 3 | 46 | On the Street of Coins they found it difficult even to arrange loans. |
| 3 | 47 | They were not popular with innkeepers, who would not shelter them unless paid in advance. |
| 3 | 48 | Many were the nights a master would be found rolled in robes in a paga tavern, where, for a bit of tarsk meat and a pot of paga, and an evening's free play with customers, he would be permitted to sleep. |
| 3 | 49 | Many of the Players dreamed of the day they might be nominated for intercity competitions at the Fairs of the Sardar, for a victor in the Sardar Fairs earns enough to keep himself, and well, for years, which he then would devote to the deeper study of the game. |
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It seemed sad to me, that I, who knew so little of the game, could have so cheaply purchased the privilege of sitting across the board from such a master.
It seemed to me that men should pay a tarn disk of gold just to be permitted to watch such a master play, but such were not the economic realities of the game.
In spite of having the respect, even to some degree the adulation, of almost all Goreans, the Players lived poorly.
On the Street of Coins they found it difficult even to arrange loans.
They were not popular with innkeepers, who would not shelter them unless paid in advance.
Many were the nights a master would be found rolled in robes in a paga tavern, where, for a bit of tarsk meat and a pot of paga, and an evening's free play with customers, he would be permitted to sleep.
Many of the Players dreamed of the day they might be nominated for intercity competitions at the Fairs of the Sardar, for a victor in the Sardar Fairs earns enough to keep himself, and well, for years, which he then would devote to the deeper study of the game.
- (Assassin of Gor)