Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 19 | 147 | He View more quotes about himself">himself, I was sure, was not the source of such conjectures. |
| 19 | 148 | Indeed, I suspected they were legends founded on another individual altogether, legends to which he found himself, however reluctantly and unwillingly, an heir. |
| 19 | 149 | Such legends tend to blossom and enlarge long after their alleged source has vanished, and is no longer about to contradict them. |
| 19 | 150 | Humans are so fond of wonders that it seems almost churlish to call them into question. |
| 19 | 151 | To be sure, such legends, in their way, betray and belittle he whose origin they might have been. |
| 19 | 152 | Hercules and Perseus, and so on, if they existed, were doubtless remarkable enough in themselves, and might have found the wonders attributed to them embarrassing, at the least. |
| 19 | 153 | Nodachi, I was sure, was a dedicated, great, and charismatic teacher and swordsman, in his own right, and did not require, and doubtless would not appreciate, the mantles of myth, woven for others, and misplaced upon him, mantles which might be cast upon him by smaller men, needful of marvels. |
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He himself, I was sure, was not the source of such conjectures.
Indeed, I suspected they were legends founded on another individual altogether, legends to which he found himself, however reluctantly and unwillingly, an heir.
Such legends tend to blossom and enlarge long after their alleged source has vanished, and is no longer about to contradict them.
Humans are so fond of wonders that it seems almost churlish to call them into question.
To be sure, such legends, in their way, betray and belittle he whose origin they might have been.
Hercules and Perseus, and so on, if they existed, were doubtless remarkable enough in themselves, and might have found the wonders attributed to them embarrassing, at the least.
Nodachi, I was sure, was a dedicated, great, and charismatic teacher and swordsman, in his own right, and did not require, and doubtless would not appreciate, the mantles of myth, woven for others, and misplaced upon him, mantles which might be cast upon him by smaller men, needful of marvels.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)