Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 69 | "View more quotes about strange">Strange beasts, unwilling to be seen, might prowl in surprising precincts," she said. |
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 66 | "I have often wondered," she said, "if there is a Counter-Earth, traversing its orbit, plying its silent way about our star, a world with its own gods and beasts, its own seasons and tides, its own strifes and wars". |
| 2 | 67 | "Absurd," I said. |
| 2 | 68 | "If there was such a world," she said, "might it not hint its presence in a hundred ways, content even to be perceived as fiction?" "Absurd!" I said, angrily. |
| 2 | 69 | "Strange beasts, unwilling to be seen, might prowl in surprising precincts," she said. |
| 2 | 70 | "Reality might wear many concealments". |
| 2 | 71 | "If Gor is real," I said, "let it show itself, openly!" "It, or its custodians, may not care to do so," she said. |
| 2 | 72 | "What would be the value or purpose of such a disclosure? How would it benefit either world? Would it not shatter comfortable visions, disrupt cultures, shake civilizations, alarm and unsettle populations, produce social, economic, and intellectual chaos? No, it is better for Gor to conceal itself, to the extent it can; it is better for it to maintain its privacy, its reticence. |
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"I have often wondered," she said, "if there is a Counter-Earth, traversing its orbit, plying its silent way about our star, a world with its own gods and beasts, its own seasons and tides, its own strifes and wars".
"Absurd," I said.
"If there was such a world," she said, "might it not hint its presence in a hundred ways, content even to be perceived as fiction?" "Absurd!" I said, angrily.
"Strange beasts, unwilling to be seen, might prowl in surprising precincts," she said.
"Reality might wear many concealments".
"If Gor is real," I said, "let it show itself, openly!" "It, or its custodians, may not care to do so," she said.
"What would be the value or purpose of such a disclosure? How would it benefit either world? Would it not shatter comfortable visions, disrupt cultures, shake civilizations, alarm and unsettle populations, produce social, economic, and intellectual chaos? No, it is better for Gor to conceal itself, to the extent it can; it is better for it to maintain its privacy, its reticence.
- (Plunder of Gor)