Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 96 | If he should, and any of his comrades survive, they will slay him. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 93 | This allows each man to have a View more quotes about clean">clean cast at the beast and provides some protection once the spear is thrown. |
| 2 | 94 | The most significant reason, however, becomes clear when the role of the last man on the file, who is spoken of as Last Spear, is understood. |
| 2 | 95 | Once Last Spear casts his weapon he may not throw himself to the ground. |
| 2 | 96 | If he should, and any of his comrades survive, they will slay him. |
| 2 | 97 | But this seldom occurs, for the Gorean hunters fear cowardice more than the claws and fangs of larls. |
| 2 | 98 | Last Spear must remain standing, and if the beast still lives, receive its charge with only his drawn sword. |
| 2 | 99 | He does not hurl himself to the ground in order that he will remain conspicuously in the larl's field of vision and thus be the object of its wounded, maddened onslaught. |
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This allows each man to have a clean cast at the beast and provides some protection once the spear is thrown.
The most significant reason, however, becomes clear when the role of the last man on the file, who is spoken of as Last Spear, is understood.
Once Last Spear casts his weapon he may not throw himself to the ground.
If he should, and any of his comrades survive, they will slay him.
But this seldom occurs, for the Gorean hunters fear cowardice more than the claws and fangs of larls.
Last Spear must remain standing, and if the beast still lives, receive its charge with only his drawn sword.
He does not hurl himself to the ground in order that he will remain conspicuously in the larl's field of vision and thus be the object of its wounded, maddened onslaught.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)