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| 45 | 171 | What could we do to damage such a monstrous View more quotes about thing">thing, let alone destroy it? It would be like trying to pull a Tur tree up by the roots, like pounding on a mountain with one's fists". |
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| 45 | 168 | "Access is unlikely?" said Pertinax. |
| 45 | 169 | "As I see it," I said, "the main difficulty is being able to do something within the palace, if one should attain access to it, and, if one is interested in such things, coming out alive. |
| 45 | 170 | Let us suppose we could approach the iron dragon, eluded guards and such, perhaps even alarms. |
| 45 | 171 | What could we do to damage such a monstrous thing, let alone destroy it? It would be like trying to pull a Tur tree up by the roots, like pounding on a mountain with one's fists". |
| 45 | 172 | "If there is nothing to do here," said Pertinax, "we must return northward". |
| 45 | 173 | "Haruki," I said, "has scouted the local towns and markets". |
| 45 | 174 | "With what end in view?" asked Pertinax. |