Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 214 | But I was real, and was as I was, in this View more quotes about time">time. |
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Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 211 | Perhaps it was an odd, anachronistic inherited trait, a genetic relic, tragically perhaps, in my case, no longer congruent with its creature's environment. |
| 3 | 212 | I wondered if I had been born out of my time. |
| 3 | 213 | Surely a woman such as I, I thought, might better have thrived in Thebes, or Rome, or Damascus. |
| 3 | 214 | But I was real, and was as I was, in this time. |
| 3 | 215 | Did this not suggest then that somewhere, somehow, there might be something answering to my yearnings, my hungers and cries? How was it that I should cry out in the darkness, if, truly, there were no one, anywhere, to hear? Be pleased there isn't, little fool, I snapped to myself. |
| 3 | 216 | Of course there wasn't, I reassured myself. |
| 3 | 217 | How terrifying it would be if there were. |
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Perhaps it was an odd, anachronistic inherited trait, a genetic relic, tragically perhaps, in my case, no longer congruent with its creature's environment.
I wondered if I had been born out of my time.
Surely a woman such as I, I thought, might better have thrived in Thebes, or Rome, or Damascus.
But I was real, and was as I was, in this time.
Did this not suggest then that somewhere, somehow, there might be something answering to my yearnings, my hungers and cries? How was it that I should cry out in the darkness, if, truly, there were no one, anywhere, to hear? Be pleased there isn't, little fool, I snapped to myself.
Of course there wasn't, I reassured myself.
How terrifying it would be if there were.
- (Dancer of Gor)