Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 24 | There was no View more quotes about time">time to lose. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 21 | Yet I knew that whatever Saphrar, merchant of Turia, might be, he was no fool. |
| 12 | 22 | He, or those for whom he worked, must have some inkling—or perhaps know—of the nature of the golden sphere. |
| 12 | 23 | If this was true, and I thought it likely, I realized I must obtain the egg as rapidly as possible and attempt to return it to the Sardar. |
| 12 | 24 | There was no time to lose. |
| 12 | 25 | And yet how could I succeed? I resolved that the best time to steal the egg would be during the days of the Omen Taking. |
| 12 | 26 | At that time Kutaituchik and other high men among the Tuchuks, doubtless including Kamchak, would be afield, on the rolling hills surrounding the Omen Valley, in which, on the hundreds of smoking altars, the haruspexes of the four peoples would be practicing their obscure craft, taking the omens, trying to determine whether or not they were favorable for the election of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, who would be Ubar of all the Wagons. |
| 12 | 27 | If such were to be elected, I trusted, at least for the sake of the Wagon Peoples, that it would not be Kutaituchik. |
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Yet I knew that whatever Saphrar, merchant of Turia, might be, he was no fool.
He, or those for whom he worked, must have some inkling—or perhaps know—of the nature of the golden sphere.
If this was true, and I thought it likely, I realized I must obtain the egg as rapidly as possible and attempt to return it to the Sardar.
There was no time to lose.
And yet how could I succeed? I resolved that the best time to steal the egg would be during the days of the Omen Taking.
At that time Kutaituchik and other high men among the Tuchuks, doubtless including Kamchak, would be afield, on the rolling hills surrounding the Omen Valley, in which, on the hundreds of smoking altars, the haruspexes of the four peoples would be practicing their obscure craft, taking the omens, trying to determine whether or not they were favorable for the election of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, who would be Ubar of all the Wagons.
If such were to be elected, I trusted, at least for the sake of the Wagon Peoples, that it would not be Kutaituchik.
- (Nomads of Gor)