Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 145 | View more quotes about accordingly">Accordingly, it would be rare, if it was allowed at all, given the practices of Port Kar, and perhaps the vanity and arrogance of her craftsmen, intending to control to the greatest extent possible every detail of their work, to allow this carpentry to take place in a remote venue in which they had no direct supervision. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 142 | Indeed, I had often thought that that would be a sensible practice. |
| 3 | 143 | On the other hand, the artisans of the arsenal, under the command of the master shipwrights, attended to these matters in the arsenal itself. |
| 3 | 144 | The rationale for this, as it had been explained to me, was that each mast, each strake, each plank, each article of the ship, was to be shaped and customized under the supervision of the arsenal's naval architects. |
| 3 | 145 | Accordingly, it would be rare, if it was allowed at all, given the practices of Port Kar, and perhaps the vanity and arrogance of her craftsmen, intending to control to the greatest extent possible every detail of their work, to allow this carpentry to take place in a remote venue in which they had no direct supervision. |
| 3 | 146 | I would learn later, however, something earlier suspected, that something along these lines was taking place within the forest itself, outside the reserves, some pasangs to the south. |
| 3 | 147 | It had to do with the intruders, and the river, the Alexandra. |
| 3 | 148 | And it had little to do, I conjectured, even then, with the reserves of Port Kar and the needs of her arsenal. |
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Indeed, I had often thought that that would be a sensible practice.
On the other hand, the artisans of the arsenal, under the command of the master shipwrights, attended to these matters in the arsenal itself.
The rationale for this, as it had been explained to me, was that each mast, each strake, each plank, each article of the ship, was to be shaped and customized under the supervision of the arsenal's naval architects.
Accordingly, it would be rare, if it was allowed at all, given the practices of Port Kar, and perhaps the vanity and arrogance of her craftsmen, intending to control to the greatest extent possible every detail of their work, to allow this carpentry to take place in a remote venue in which they had no direct supervision.
I would learn later, however, something earlier suspected, that something along these lines was taking place within the forest itself, outside the reserves, some pasangs to the south.
It had to do with the intruders, and the river, the Alexandra.
And it had little to do, I conjectured, even then, with the reserves of Port Kar and the needs of her arsenal.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)