Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
2
113
I remembered that the boulders below were huge but from my present height they looked like grains of black sand.
2
114
I wished the cliff were on my left rather than my right in order to have a freer cast of my spear.
2
115
The path was steep but its ascent, here and there, was lightened by high steps.
2
116
I have never cared to have an enemy above me, nor did I now, but I told myself that my spear might more easily find a vulnerable spot if the larl leapt downwards toward me than if I were above and had only the base of its neck as my best target.
2
117
From above I would try to sever the vertebrae.
2
118
The larl's skull is an even more difficult cast, for its head is almost continually in motion.
2
119
Moreover, it possesses an unobtrusive bony ridge which runs from its four nasal slits to the beginning of the backbone.
I remembered that the boulders below were huge but from my present height they looked like grains of black sand.
I wished the cliff were on my left rather than my right in order to have a freer cast of my spear.
The path was steep but its ascent, here and there, was lightened by high steps.
I have never cared to have an enemy above me, nor did I now, but I told myself that my spear might more easily find a vulnerable spot if the larl leapt downwards toward me than if I were above and had only the base of its neck as my best target.
From above I would try to sever the vertebrae.
The larl's skull is an even more difficult cast, for its head is almost continually in motion.
Moreover, it possesses an unobtrusive bony ridge which runs from its four nasal slits to the beginning of the backbone.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )