Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 7 | 94 | That it knew that I was View more quotes about waiting">waiting. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 7 | 91 | I had waited perhaps better than an Ahn and I was covered with sweat. |
| 7 | 92 | My muscles ached for motion. |
| 7 | 93 | It occurred to me that whatever followed might have heard the cessation of my footsteps. |
| 7 | 94 | That it knew that I was waiting. |
| 7 | 95 | How acute would be the senses of Priest-Kings? Perhaps they would be relatively feeble, having grown accustomed to reliance on instrumentation; perhaps they would be other than the senses of men, sharper if only from a differing genetic heritage, capable of discriminating and interpreting sensory cues that would not even be available to the primitive five senses of men. |
| 7 | 96 | Never before had I been so aware of the thin margin of reality admitted into the human nervous system, little more than a razor's width of apprehension given the multiple and complex physical processes which formed our environment. |
| 7 | 97 | The safest thing for me would be to continue on as I had been doing, a pattern of action which would give me the benefit of the shield formed by the turn in the passage. |
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I had waited perhaps better than an Ahn and I was covered with sweat.
My muscles ached for motion.
It occurred to me that whatever followed might have heard the cessation of my footsteps.
That it knew that I was waiting.
How acute would be the senses of Priest-Kings? Perhaps they would be relatively feeble, having grown accustomed to reliance on instrumentation; perhaps they would be other than the senses of men, sharper if only from a differing genetic heritage, capable of discriminating and interpreting sensory cues that would not even be available to the primitive five senses of men.
Never before had I been so aware of the thin margin of reality admitted into the human nervous system, little more than a razor's width of apprehension given the multiple and complex physical processes which formed our environment.
The safest thing for me would be to continue on as I had been doing, a pattern of action which would give me the benefit of the shield formed by the turn in the passage.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)