Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 55 | They are then View more quotes about slid">slid back, in a frame, on rollers, each to its own side. |
| 8 | 56 | This gives the effect of a door, opening to the sky. |
| 8 | 57 | The structure supporting the gate, in such a case, with its beams, platforms, catwalks and mastlike timbers, is very sturdy. |
| 8 | 58 | Narrow ladders, too, ascend it here and there, leading to its catwalks and platforms. |
| 8 | 59 | Such a construction, of course, requires the more time-consuming, hovering landing of all birds, not simply draft tarns, carrying tarn baskets. |
| 8 | 60 | It does, however, make the landing platform unnecessary. |
| 8 | 61 | The construction at the Crooked Tarn, incidentally, was more typical of a military installation, in that it permitted the more rapid deployment and return of tarnsmen, coupled with the capacity to open and close the tarn gate in a matter of Ihn. |
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They are then slid back, in a frame, on rollers, each to its own side.
This gives the effect of a door, opening to the sky.
The structure supporting the gate, in such a case, with its beams, platforms, catwalks and mastlike timbers, is very sturdy.
Narrow ladders, too, ascend it here and there, leading to its catwalks and platforms.
Such a construction, of course, requires the more time-consuming, hovering landing of all birds, not simply draft tarns, carrying tarn baskets.
It does, however, make the landing platform unnecessary.
The construction at the Crooked Tarn, incidentally, was more typical of a military installation, in that it permitted the more rapid deployment and return of tarnsmen, coupled with the capacity to open and close the tarn gate in a matter of Ihn.
- (Renegades of Gor)