Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 72 | The View more quotes about tarn">tarn is a dangerous bird, half wild even when domesticated. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 69 | One suspects they had been flighted east or south, obedient to the reins of deserters, understandably loathe to die on the ice. |
| 8 | 70 | But there were other thoughts, too. |
| 8 | 71 | Perhaps the tarns themselves, now unhobbled, unwilling to return to the imprisonment of the cramped cots below, where they had seen their fellows die, now drunk with their sudden freedom, in the cold, fine, piercing air, exhilarated, and exultant, had chosen to reclaim for themselves their rightful realm, the deep, broad, high country of the sky. |
| 8 | 72 | The tarn is a dangerous bird, half wild even when domesticated. |
| 8 | 73 | It would be an easy thing to resist the reins, and turn upon a rider. |
| 8 | 74 | And even an obedient tarn must eat, after a time. |
| 8 | 75 | And then, presumably, one must die, tarn or rider. |
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One suspects they had been flighted east or south, obedient to the reins of deserters, understandably loathe to die on the ice.
But there were other thoughts, too.
Perhaps the tarns themselves, now unhobbled, unwilling to return to the imprisonment of the cramped cots below, where they had seen their fellows die, now drunk with their sudden freedom, in the cold, fine, piercing air, exhilarated, and exultant, had chosen to reclaim for themselves their rightful realm, the deep, broad, high country of the sky.
The tarn is a dangerous bird, half wild even when domesticated.
It would be an easy thing to resist the reins, and turn upon a rider.
And even an obedient tarn must eat, after a time.
And then, presumably, one must die, tarn or rider.
- (Mariners of Gor)