Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 29 | A View more quotes about tarnsman">tarnsman knows that they may turn upon him without warning. |
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 26 | I think that this is a true saying. |
| 15 | 27 | One knows that one must master them or be devoured. |
| 15 | 28 | One knows that they are not dependable, that they are vicious. |
| 15 | 29 | A tarnsman knows that they may turn upon him without warning. |
| 15 | 30 | Yet the tarnsman chooses no other life. |
| 15 | 31 | He continues to mount the birds, to climb to their saddle with a heart filled with joy, to draw upon the one-strap and, with a cry of exultation, to urge the monster aloft. |
| 15 | 32 | More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free. |
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I think that this is a true saying.
One knows that one must master them or be devoured.
One knows that they are not dependable, that they are vicious.
A tarnsman knows that they may turn upon him without warning.
Yet the tarnsman chooses no other life.
He continues to mount the birds, to climb to their saddle with a heart filled with joy, to draw upon the one-strap and, with a cry of exultation, to urge the monster aloft.
More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free.
- (Outlaw of Gor)