Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 139 | She is View more quotes about content">content to let others read her, if they dare. |
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Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 136 | How subtle, how insistent and quiet, and yet how tenacious a foe of promulgated perversions are the whims of nature, that she should choose to be so constituted. |
| 12 | 137 | But nature cannot read. |
| 12 | 138 | Thus she does not know what she is supposed to be. |
| 12 | 139 | She is content to let others read her, if they dare. |
| 12 | 140 | How odd if we should truly be the end of history, if our tiny grasp of things, our demands flung into the void, should be the finality of the universe. |
| 12 | 141 | Are we, familiar with the rise and fall of empires, who have witnessed the building of the pyramids and walked the streets of Babylon and Nineveh, who have heard the tread of the legions and watched the armada set forth, to take our moment, our brief afternoon, to be the summit and meaning of eternity? And so I was supposedly quite vital, unusually so, it seemed, even for this world. |
| 12 | 142 | I was a palimpsest, with texts concealed beneath texts. |
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How subtle, how insistent and quiet, and yet how tenacious a foe of promulgated perversions are the whims of nature, that she should choose to be so constituted.
But nature cannot read.
Thus she does not know what she is supposed to be.
She is content to let others read her, if they dare.
How odd if we should truly be the end of history, if our tiny grasp of things, our demands flung into the void, should be the finality of the universe.
Are we, familiar with the rise and fall of empires, who have witnessed the building of the pyramids and walked the streets of Babylon and Nineveh, who have heard the tread of the legions and watched the armada set forth, to take our moment, our brief afternoon, to be the summit and meaning of eternity? And so I was supposedly quite vital, unusually so, it seemed, even for this world.
I was a palimpsest, with texts concealed beneath texts.
- (Witness of Gor)