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| 20 | 233 | When the shield reaches the top of the View more quotes about pole">pole in the harbor and is permitted to fall it is the tenth hour, the Gorean noon. |
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| 20 | 230 | It had not been necessary to strike me. |
| 20 | 231 | I rose to my feet and again looked about. |
| 20 | 232 | The large, yellow shield on the high pole in the harbor had already been hoisted and fallen, and, near it, the fire of white smoke had been lit. |
| 20 | 233 | When the shield reaches the top of the pole in the harbor and is permitted to fall it is the tenth hour, the Gorean noon. |
| 20 | 234 | At the same time the white-smoke fire is lit. |
| 20 | 235 | At the twentieth hour, the Gorean midnight, a beacon is lit. |
| 20 | 236 | These things serve to synchronize chronometers in the port, and serve to regulate schedules and the utilization of the tide tables. |