Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 657 | View more quotes about surely">Surely the Flame Death does not explain itself, but simply strikes. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 654 | For what reason was he now not alone in the container, and why with these two particular creatures? He had not been informed, of course, by Priest-Kings of his inadvertence, error or crime. |
| 1 | 655 | This is not unusual. |
| 1 | 656 | Would you inform, say, an insect, or small animal, found annoying, of the reasons for your displeasure? You would, presumably, simply deal with it, and as you pleased. |
| 1 | 657 | Surely the Flame Death does not explain itself, but simply strikes. |
| 1 | 658 | But in certain cases, with rational creatures, this lack of communication is deliberate, and calculated to unravel, so to speak, its victim, who, perplexed and frightened, is denied an accounting of his alleged faults or charges. |
| 1 | 659 | He is plunged then into confusion, dismay, and, not unoften, is overcome by a sense of unlocalized, nebulous guilt. |
| 1 | 660 | Such techniques, incidentally, are not unknown on Earth, or in some of the Steel Worlds. |
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For what reason was he now not alone in the container, and why with these two particular creatures? He had not been informed, of course, by Priest-Kings of his inadvertence, error or crime.
This is not unusual.
Would you inform, say, an insect, or small animal, found annoying, of the reasons for your displeasure? You would, presumably, simply deal with it, and as you pleased.
Surely the Flame Death does not explain itself, but simply strikes.
But in certain cases, with rational creatures, this lack of communication is deliberate, and calculated to unravel, so to speak, its victim, who, perplexed and frightened, is denied an accounting of his alleged faults or charges.
He is plunged then into confusion, dismay, and, not unoften, is overcome by a sense of unlocalized, nebulous guilt.
Such techniques, incidentally, are not unknown on Earth, or in some of the Steel Worlds.
- (Kur of Gor)