Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 11 | 27 | Who could concentrate on a View more quotes about single">single flake of snow in a blizzard, a particular grain of sand in a Tahari wind? The predator is distracted, and confused. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 11 | 24 | It is difficult for a predator to single out prey. |
| 11 | 25 | One target replaces another. |
| 11 | 26 | They flash in and out; they appear here and, in a flicker, there. |
| 11 | 27 | Who could concentrate on a single flake of snow in a blizzard, a particular grain of sand in a Tahari wind? The predator is distracted, and confused. |
| 11 | 28 | It flies at the mass but how shall it snap shut its jaws on the single victim it might manage, which it can scarcely note for less than a tenth of an Ihn, before another appears, and another. |
| 11 | 29 | It will lunge into the mass, to break it apart, that single victims may be separated and tracked, but the schooling instinct, like that of flocking birds, swiftly returns the fish to the group. |
| 11 | 30 | The school, of course, may be, and is, preyed upon. |
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It is difficult for a predator to single out prey.
One target replaces another.
They flash in and out; they appear here and, in a flicker, there.
Who could concentrate on a single flake of snow in a blizzard, a particular grain of sand in a Tahari wind? The predator is distracted, and confused.
It flies at the mass but how shall it snap shut its jaws on the single victim it might manage, which it can scarcely note for less than a tenth of an Ihn, before another appears, and another.
It will lunge into the mass, to break it apart, that single victims may be separated and tracked, but the schooling instinct, like that of flocking birds, swiftly returns the fish to the group.
The school, of course, may be, and is, preyed upon.
- (Mariners of Gor)