Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 11 | 31 | But the View more quotes about matter">matter, as there are many fish that school, seems to be one of averages. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 11 | 28 | It flies at the mass but how shall it snap shut its jaws on the single victim it might manage, which it can scarcely note for less than a tenth of an Ihn, before another appears, and another. |
| 11 | 29 | It will lunge into the mass, to break it apart, that single victims may be separated and tracked, but the schooling instinct, like that of flocking birds, swiftly returns the fish to the group. |
| 11 | 30 | The school, of course, may be, and is, preyed upon. |
| 11 | 31 | But the matter, as there are many fish that school, seems to be one of averages. |
| 11 | 32 | One supposes that the school must increase the likelihood of the survival of any given fish. |
| 11 | 33 | To be sure, the school is vulnerable to the nets of men. |
| 11 | 34 | In such a case, the school, so obvious and visible, so large and slow moving, becomes a most perilous habitat. |
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It flies at the mass but how shall it snap shut its jaws on the single victim it might manage, which it can scarcely note for less than a tenth of an Ihn, before another appears, and another.
It will lunge into the mass, to break it apart, that single victims may be separated and tracked, but the schooling instinct, like that of flocking birds, swiftly returns the fish to the group.
The school, of course, may be, and is, preyed upon.
But the matter, as there are many fish that school, seems to be one of averages.
One supposes that the school must increase the likelihood of the survival of any given fish.
To be sure, the school is vulnerable to the nets of men.
In such a case, the school, so obvious and visible, so large and slow moving, becomes a most perilous habitat.
- (Mariners of Gor)