Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 167 | "You're not View more quotes about serious">serious?" "I am," he said. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 164 | "What sort of men are they?" I asked. |
| 2 | 165 | "It is not known that they are men," said my father. |
| 2 | 166 | "Then what are they?" "Perhaps gods". |
| 2 | 167 | "You're not serious?" "I am," he said. |
| 2 | 168 | "Is not a creature beyond death, of immense power and wisdom, worthy to be so spoken of?" I was quiet. |
| 2 | 169 | "My speculation, however," said my father, "is that the Priest-Kings are indeed men—men much as we, or humanoid organisms of some type—who possess a science and technology as far beyond our normal ken as that of our own twentieth century would be to the alchemists and astrologers of the medieval universities". |
| 2 | 170 | His supposition seemed plausible to me, for from the very beginning I had understood that in something or someone existed a force and clarity of understanding beside which the customary habits of rationality as I knew them were little more than the tropisms of the unicellular animal. |
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"What sort of men are they?" I asked.
"It is not known that they are men," said my father.
"Then what are they?" "Perhaps gods".
"You're not serious?" "I am," he said.
"Is not a creature beyond death, of immense power and wisdom, worthy to be so spoken of?" I was quiet.
"My speculation, however," said my father, "is that the Priest-Kings are indeed men—men much as we, or humanoid organisms of some type—who possess a science and technology as far beyond our normal ken as that of our own twentieth century would be to the alchemists and astrologers of the medieval universities".
His supposition seemed plausible to me, for from the very beginning I had understood that in something or someone existed a force and clarity of understanding beside which the customary habits of rationality as I knew them were little more than the tropisms of the unicellular animal.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)