Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 44 | 31 | View more quotes about lord">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. |
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 44 | 33 | The cavalry was now, in fact, if not in name, an independent unit. |
| 44 | 34 | I was not now to be commanded as a subordinate but courted as an ally. |
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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.
The cavalry was now, in fact, if not in name, an independent unit.
I was not now to be commanded as a subordinate but courted as an ally.
- (Rebels of Gor)