Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 24 | 59 | It View more quotes about seemed">seemed foolish, unlikely, a puzzle of nature. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 24 | 56 | I set Vika down. |
| 24 | 57 | I leaned the Mul-Torch against the side of the passage. |
| 24 | 58 | And yet it seemed strange to me to think of the Beetle as pursuing its prey in these tunnels for hours, perhaps days. |
| 24 | 59 | It seemed foolish, unlikely, a puzzle of nature. |
| 24 | 60 | But I myself had seen its body and knew now that it was incapable of prolonged, rapid movement. |
| 24 | 61 | How was it then, I asked myself, that such a slow, awkward, clumsy creature, no matter how formidable at close range, could capture and slay an organism as alert and swift as a Priest-King? I moved Vika's limbs and rubbed her hands to see if I could restore her circulation to a more normal level. |
| 24 | 62 | Bending my ear to her heart I was pleased to detect its faint beat. |
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I set Vika down.
I leaned the Mul-Torch against the side of the passage.
And yet it seemed strange to me to think of the Beetle as pursuing its prey in these tunnels for hours, perhaps days.
It seemed foolish, unlikely, a puzzle of nature.
But I myself had seen its body and knew now that it was incapable of prolonged, rapid movement.
How was it then, I asked myself, that such a slow, awkward, clumsy creature, no matter how formidable at close range, could capture and slay an organism as alert and swift as a Priest-King? I moved Vika's limbs and rubbed her hands to see if I could restore her circulation to a more normal level.
Bending my ear to her heart I was pleased to detect its faint beat.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)