Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 24 | 32 | I saw Tersites at the View more quotes about high">high starboard rail, that of the stem castle, looking over the side. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 24 | 29 | Aside from Tersites and Aëtius, who refused to come ashore, some officers, and a handful of mariners, only Pani were allowed on board, and their role, one supposed, was to prevent a general return to the ship, if not now, later. |
| 24 | 30 | I feared for the ship. |
| 24 | 31 | And, I suspect, I was not the only one. |
| 24 | 32 | I saw Tersites at the high starboard rail, that of the stem castle, looking over the side. |
| 24 | 33 | Then he had turned back, and I could see him no longer. |
| 24 | 34 | I feared for the ship. |
| 24 | 35 | Had it not served its purpose? Had it not traversed Thassa? Had it not vindicated the madness, the bizarre faith, the superstition and conviction, of its malformed master, half-blind Tersites, a jest amongst the islands, a joke in a hundred ports, who had sent it eyeless upon the open sea? I had long thought this omission, that he would not give the ship eyes, to the uneasiness of many, was cast down as a challenge to Thassa, that it was in its way a defiance, a boast that so mighty a structure had nothing to fear from mother Thassa, from whose womb the land was born, from her moods, her violence, her turbulence, and wind. |
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Aside from Tersites and Aëtius, who refused to come ashore, some officers, and a handful of mariners, only Pani were allowed on board, and their role, one supposed, was to prevent a general return to the ship, if not now, later.
I feared for the ship.
And, I suspect, I was not the only one.
I saw Tersites at the high starboard rail, that of the stem castle, looking over the side.
Then he had turned back, and I could see him no longer.
I feared for the ship.
Had it not served its purpose? Had it not traversed Thassa? Had it not vindicated the madness, the bizarre faith, the superstition and conviction, of its malformed master, half-blind Tersites, a jest amongst the islands, a joke in a hundred ports, who had sent it eyeless upon the open sea? I had long thought this omission, that he would not give the ship eyes, to the uneasiness of many, was cast down as a challenge to Thassa, that it was in its way a defiance, a boast that so mighty a structure had nothing to fear from mother Thassa, from whose womb the land was born, from her moods, her violence, her turbulence, and wind.
- (Mariners of Gor)