Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 192 | I also View more quotes about learned">learned the use of the shield, primarily to meet the cast spear obliquely so that it would deflect harmlessly. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 189 | He flung down his sword with a crash on the stone tiles and clasped me to his bleeding chest, laughing. |
| 3 | 190 | "I am dead!" he shouted in triumph. |
| 3 | 191 | He slapped me on the shoulders, proud as a father who has taught his son chess and has been defeated for the first time. |
| 3 | 192 | I also learned the use of the shield, primarily to meet the cast spear obliquely so that it would deflect harmlessly. |
| 3 | 193 | Toward the end of my training I always fought with shield and helmet. |
| 3 | 194 | I would have supposed that armor, or chain mail perhaps, would have been a desirable addition to the accouterments of the Gorean warrior, but it had been forbidden by the Priest-Kings. |
| 3 | 195 | A possible hypothesis to explain this is that the Priest-Kings may have wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves. |
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He flung down his sword with a crash on the stone tiles and clasped me to his bleeding chest, laughing.
"I am dead!" he shouted in triumph.
He slapped me on the shoulders, proud as a father who has taught his son chess and has been defeated for the first time.
I also learned the use of the shield, primarily to meet the cast spear obliquely so that it would deflect harmlessly.
Toward the end of my training I always fought with shield and helmet.
I would have supposed that armor, or chain mail perhaps, would have been a desirable addition to the accouterments of the Gorean warrior, but it had been forbidden by the Priest-Kings.
A possible hypothesis to explain this is that the Priest-Kings may have wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)