Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 33 | 597 | The View more quotes about longer">longer one remains held fast, of course, the greater is the danger. |
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 33 | 594 | My arms and hands were free. |
| 33 | 595 | Given the comparative densities, the physics of displacement, and such, I was in no danger of slipping beneath the surface. |
| 33 | 596 | Initially, of course, I was less sure of that than later. |
| 33 | 597 | The longer one remains held fast, of course, the greater is the danger. |
| 33 | 598 | One is in the most immediate danger from long tharlarion whose body shape distributes its weight in such a way that it has little to fear from quicksand. |
| 33 | 599 | A second danger has to do with tidal levels. |
| 33 | 600 | In my situation the rising tide in Thassa and the Tamber Gulf will wash back into the marshes. |
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My arms and hands were free.
Given the comparative densities, the physics of displacement, and such, I was in no danger of slipping beneath the surface.
Initially, of course, I was less sure of that than later.
The longer one remains held fast, of course, the greater is the danger.
One is in the most immediate danger from long tharlarion whose body shape distributes its weight in such a way that it has little to fear from quicksand.
A second danger has to do with tidal levels.
In my situation the rising tide in Thassa and the Tamber Gulf will wash back into the marshes.
- (Quarry of Gor)