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| 8 | 70 | The View more quotes about rope">rope was some two inches thick. |
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| 8 | 67 | I loosened my blade in my scabbard and returned to the vicinity of the tarncot. |
| 8 | 68 | The tarn was ready. |
| 8 | 69 | It was within the cot, tearing at a piece of meat, a haunch of tarsk, hung from a rope. |
| 8 | 70 | The rope was some two inches thick. |
| 8 | 71 | The suspension of the meat reminded me of the way peasant women sometimes cook roasts, tying them on a cord and dangling them before the fire, then spinning the meat from time to time. |
| 8 | 72 | In this way, given the twisting and untwisting of the cord, the meat will cook rather evenly, for the most part untended, and without spit turning. |
| 8 | 73 | The rope then, drawn tightly as it was, so tautly, so fiercely, toward the tarn, suddenly, a foot or so above the meat, snapped. |