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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)

I was puzzled, for I myself had looked upon the valley of Ko-ro-ba and had seen that the city had vanished. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 34, Sentence #64)
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34 64 I was puzzled, for I View more quotes about myself">myself had looked upon the valley of Ko-ro-ba and had seen that the city had vanished.

Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)

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34 61 "I am sorry," I said, "that Ko-ro-ba was destroyed".
34 62 My father laughed.
34 63 "Ko-ro-ba was not destroyed," he said.
34 64 I was puzzled, for I myself had looked upon the valley of Ko-ro-ba and had seen that the city had vanished.
34 65 "Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the City, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself.
34 66 "Ko-ro-ba cannot be destroyed," said my father, "for its Home Stone has not perished!" My father had taken the Stone from the City before it had been destroyed.
34 67 For years he had carried it on his own person.
"I am sorry," I said, "that Ko-ro-ba was destroyed". My father laughed. "Ko-ro-ba was not destroyed," he said. I was puzzled, for I myself had looked upon the valley of Ko-ro-ba and had seen that the city had vanished. "Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the City, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself. "Ko-ro-ba cannot be destroyed," said my father, "for its Home Stone has not perished!" My father had taken the Stone from the City before it had been destroyed. For years he had carried it on his own person. - (Priest-Kings of Gor)