Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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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.
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.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 7, Sentence #95)
Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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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.
7
98
But I had no wish to continue on.
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.
But I had no wish to continue on.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 7)