Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 45 | 21 | "If it were frequently View more quotes about seen">seen it would be obvious that, however awesome it is, it is not a living, breathing dragon, no egg-sprung beast of flesh and blood, but a contrivance of sorts, terrible though it may be. |
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 45 | 18 | "What is not seen is often more frightening than what is seen," I said. |
| 45 | 19 | "And once briefly glimpsed, and then concealed," said Tajima, "imagination may be permitted to enlarge its menaces and terrors". |
| 45 | 20 | "I think so," I said. |
| 45 | 21 | "If it were frequently seen it would be obvious that, however awesome it is, it is not a living, breathing dragon, no egg-sprung beast of flesh and blood, but a contrivance of sorts, terrible though it may be. |
| 45 | 22 | It would be obvious that it is not the iron dragon of myth and legend, the source of which is lost in history, but a surrogate of that, a counterfeit". |
| 45 | 23 | "It is terrible enough," said Haruki. |
| 45 | 24 | "But it would have lost its mantle of mystery, its most fearsome feature, the aura of the unnatural and incomprehensible; it would no longer be something unfamiliar and inexplicable which transcends reason and the world as we know it; it would no longer be something astonishing and unwelcome, emerged from another dimension or world, from a suspected, feared, foreign order of reality. |
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"What is not seen is often more frightening than what is seen," I said.
"And once briefly glimpsed, and then concealed," said Tajima, "imagination may be permitted to enlarge its menaces and terrors".
"I think so," I said.
"If it were frequently seen it would be obvious that, however awesome it is, it is not a living, breathing dragon, no egg-sprung beast of flesh and blood, but a contrivance of sorts, terrible though it may be.
It would be obvious that it is not the iron dragon of myth and legend, the source of which is lost in history, but a surrogate of that, a counterfeit".
"It is terrible enough," said Haruki.
"But it would have lost its mantle of mystery, its most fearsome feature, the aura of the unnatural and incomprehensible; it would no longer be something unfamiliar and inexplicable which transcends reason and the world as we know it; it would no longer be something astonishing and unwelcome, emerged from another dimension or world, from a suspected, feared, foreign order of reality.
- (Rebels of Gor)