Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 134 | "Yes," said my father, as if there were View more quotes about nothing">nothing incredible in this admission. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 131 | "Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself. |
| 2 | 132 | Good land is protected only by the swords of the strongest owners in the vicinity". |
| 2 | 133 | "Swords?" I asked. |
| 2 | 134 | "Yes," said my father, as if there were nothing incredible in this admission. |
| 2 | 135 | He smiled. |
| 2 | 136 | "You have much to learn of Gor," he said. |
| 2 | 137 | "Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies. |
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"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.
Good land is protected only by the swords of the strongest owners in the vicinity".
"Swords?" I asked.
"Yes," said my father, as if there were nothing incredible in this admission.
He smiled.
"You have much to learn of Gor," he said.
"Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)