Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 35 | 287 | "You are thinking of View more quotes about something">something like the kaissa concealment". |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 35 | 284 | "If they are prepared in such a way as to admit reading their values from the back, it must be very subtly done". |
| 35 | 285 | "We are not concerned here with cheating at cards, but with concealed messages," he said. |
| 35 | 286 | "Does anything about the deck strike you as different, or unusual?" "No," I said. |
| 35 | 287 | "You are thinking of something like the kaissa concealment". |
| 35 | 288 | ¹ "That would be the initial conjecture," he said, "but it seems unlikely, as each card is different". |
| 35 | 289 | "Then the order of the cards must be important," I said. |
| 35 | 290 | "I think so," he said, "but what is the relevance of the order? What would it mean if, say, a Physician's Vulo is succeeded by a Scribe's Tarsk?" "Perhaps that would stand for an entire message," I said, "something like 'Meet at dawn', 'Bring gold', 'Depart on the morrow', such things". |
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"If they are prepared in such a way as to admit reading their values from the back, it must be very subtly done".
"We are not concerned here with cheating at cards, but with concealed messages," he said.
"Does anything about the deck strike you as different, or unusual?" "No," I said.
"You are thinking of something like the kaissa concealment".
¹ "That would be the initial conjecture," he said, "but it seems unlikely, as each card is different".
"Then the order of the cards must be important," I said.
"I think so," he said, "but what is the relevance of the order? What would it mean if, say, a Physician's Vulo is succeeded by a Scribe's Tarsk?" "Perhaps that would stand for an entire message," I said, "something like 'Meet at dawn', 'Bring gold', 'Depart on the morrow', such things".
- (Conspirators of Gor)