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| 1 | 122 | Who is to say what thrones may have been toppled, what crowns View more quotes about seized">seized? Surely such things, coups, insurrections, fatalities, suppressions, and such, are not unknown even within the benign civilizations of the habitats. |
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| 1 | 119 | The reader may be interested in obtaining an account, however superficial, of certain events antecedent to the incarceration of the individual, Tarl Cabot. |
| 1 | 120 | It is rumored that within recent years certain tumults or transitions have taken place in the realm of Priest-Kings. |
| 1 | 121 | I do not know whether that is true or not. |
| 1 | 122 | Who is to say what thrones may have been toppled, what crowns seized? Surely such things, coups, insurrections, fatalities, suppressions, and such, are not unknown even within the benign civilizations of the habitats. |
| 1 | 123 | And are they not useful in subverting stagnation, and improving bloodlines? And if such things occurred, it is not impossible that they may have had a role in this business. |
| 1 | 124 | Again, one does not know. |
| 1 | 125 | On the other hand, such things, such conjectured events, bloody or otherwise, are not strictly germane to this history. |