Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 20 | 425 | How View more quotes about else">else, some mariners inquire, could she see her way? To the Gorean mariner, as to many who have followed the ways of the sea, learning her, fearing her, loving her, the ship is more than an engineered structure of iron and wood. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 20 | 422 | The huge, painted eyes of these ships were then turning north, toward the mighty Vosk. |
| 20 | 423 | The eyes of the other ships out in the harbor, those which had had the task of ferrying out passengers, already faced north. |
| 20 | 424 | Such eyes are common on Gorean ships. |
| 20 | 425 | How else, some mariners inquire, could she see her way? To the Gorean mariner, as to many who have followed the ways of the sea, learning her, fearing her, loving her, the ship is more than an engineered structure of iron and wood. |
| 20 | 426 | It is more than tackle and blocks, beams and planks, canvas and caulking. |
| 20 | 427 | There is an indefinability and preciousness about her, a mystique which informs her, an exceeding of what is seen, a nature and wondrous mystery, like that of a companion and lover, a creature and friend. |
| 20 | 428 | Though I have seldom heard them speak explicitly of this, particularly when landsmen are present, many Gorean mariners seem to believe that the ship is in some way alive. |
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The huge, painted eyes of these ships were then turning north, toward the mighty Vosk.
The eyes of the other ships out in the harbor, those which had had the task of ferrying out passengers, already faced north.
Such eyes are common on Gorean ships.
How else, some mariners inquire, could she see her way? To the Gorean mariner, as to many who have followed the ways of the sea, learning her, fearing her, loving her, the ship is more than an engineered structure of iron and wood.
It is more than tackle and blocks, beams and planks, canvas and caulking.
There is an indefinability and preciousness about her, a mystique which informs her, an exceeding of what is seen, a nature and wondrous mystery, like that of a companion and lover, a creature and friend.
Though I have seldom heard them speak explicitly of this, particularly when landsmen are present, many Gorean mariners seem to believe that the ship is in some way alive.
- (Renegades of Gor)