Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 44 | 29 | "The cavalry," said View more quotes about pertinax">Pertinax, "never owned another". |
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 44 | 26 | "He betrayed the bones and shells," said Lord Temmu. |
| 44 | 27 | "I am pleased," said Lord Nishida, "that you have been reinstated as commander of the tarn cavalry". |
| 44 | 28 | I bowed, politely. |
| 44 | 29 | "The cavalry," said Pertinax, "never owned another". |
| 44 | 30 | It is interesting, I thought, the relationships between politics and reality, between words and deeds, between laws and enforcements, between formalities and facts. |
| 44 | 31 | Lord Temmu had relieved me of my command, as he thought, but the cavalry, as I understood it, had remained mine, and now, with no change in things, Lord Temmu had supposedly returned my command. |
| 44 | 32 | But the reality was that the cavalry had repudiated in fact, if not in name, its allegiance to Lord Temmu, following his betrayal of me into the power of Lord Yamada. |
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"He betrayed the bones and shells," said Lord Temmu.
"I am pleased," said Lord Nishida, "that you have been reinstated as commander of the tarn cavalry".
I bowed, politely.
"The cavalry," said Pertinax, "never owned another".
It is interesting, I thought, the relationships between politics and reality, between words and deeds, between laws and enforcements, between formalities and facts.
Lord Temmu had relieved me of my command, as he thought, but the cavalry, as I understood it, had remained mine, and now, with no change in things, Lord Temmu had supposedly returned my command.
But the reality was that the cavalry had repudiated in fact, if not in name, its allegiance to Lord Temmu, following his betrayal of me into the power of Lord Yamada.
- (Rebels of Gor)