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Are we really to abandon our war and accept a defeat which we may ascribe only to ourselves? This seems to me not only an error, a dreadful mistake, but a lapse into abject madness. - (Kur of Gor, Chapter 66, Sentence #13)

"May I speak?" had begged Cabot, and Lord Grendel had bidden the others listen. "I do not understand the ways of Kur," had said Cabot. "I do not understand how my friends, my compatriots, and brothers, can contemplate the ruination of a cause for which we have long and well fought. Are we really to abandon our war and accept a defeat which we may ascribe only to ourselves? This seems to me not only an error, a dreadful mistake, but a lapse into abject madness. Further, it is clear to me, as well, that Lord Arcesilaus would not wish this monstrous act, this self slaughtering, to take place, and, indeed, that he would forbid it, and categorically, had he the opportunity to do so. All this, I take it, is clear". There was general assent to his remarks, but little evidence that his peers were to be dissuaded from their woeful intention. - (Kur of Gor)