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Doubtless there were similar rumors, raising their small stirs, in the councils of Cos and Tyros. I recalled that the words of the seaman had been dismissed. Now, crying to come before the council, was the mad, half-blind shipwright Tersites, a scroll of drawings in his hand, and calculations. At a word from the scribe at the long table before the thrones of the Ubars, two men put Tersites from the chamber, dragging him away. Once before he had been permitted to present plans to the council, but they had been too fantastic to be taken seriously. He had dared to suggest a redesign of the standard tarn ship. He had wanted to deepen the keel, to add a foremast, to change the rowing to great oars, each handled by several men, rather than one man to an oar; he had wanted even to raise the ram above the waterline. - (Raiders of Gor)