Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 32 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps they knew as little of the world as the world knew of them. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 29 | Clerks would know more of that than I. |
| 3 | 30 | Perhaps they wanted news of the world. |
| 3 | 31 | Surely it seemed they had their own world, their own city, a floating island of wood. |
| 3 | 32 | Perhaps they knew as little of the world as the world knew of them. |
| 3 | 33 | Given the treatment to which I had been subjected, my stripping, and binding, and blindfolding, it seemed clear that I would not be offered the opportunity to sign articles with them, and make one with them, even were I willing, even eager, to do so. |
| 3 | 34 | And would they not view me as their enemy, for did our ship not fire upon their mountain of wood when it trod, however unwittingly, upon our vessel? I had heard the harsh crackings, marking the launching of sets of javelins, doubtless ignited. |
| 3 | 35 | We had tried to burn their ship, and how fearsome and dangerous is fire at sea! Too, how could I betray the Home Stone of Jad, or forswear my allegiance to my Ubar, mighty Lurius of Jad? And how could I serve with those of Ar or, say, Port Kar, sworn enemies? Of what value could I be to these men? What might they want of me? Perhaps there were free women on board, and one or another wished to amuse herself with a male silk slave. |
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Clerks would know more of that than I.
Perhaps they wanted news of the world.
Surely it seemed they had their own world, their own city, a floating island of wood.
Perhaps they knew as little of the world as the world knew of them.
Given the treatment to which I had been subjected, my stripping, and binding, and blindfolding, it seemed clear that I would not be offered the opportunity to sign articles with them, and make one with them, even were I willing, even eager, to do so.
And would they not view me as their enemy, for did our ship not fire upon their mountain of wood when it trod, however unwittingly, upon our vessel? I had heard the harsh crackings, marking the launching of sets of javelins, doubtless ignited.
We had tried to burn their ship, and how fearsome and dangerous is fire at sea! Too, how could I betray the Home Stone of Jad, or forswear my allegiance to my Ubar, mighty Lurius of Jad? And how could I serve with those of Ar or, say, Port Kar, sworn enemies? Of what value could I be to these men? What might they want of me? Perhaps there were free women on board, and one or another wished to amuse herself with a male silk slave.
- (Mariners of Gor)