Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 35 | 287 | "You are View more quotes about thinking">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". |
| 35 | 291 | "That is far too complex in one sense," he said, "for it would require a storeroom of messages, and too simple in another, as one might wish to express something not in the stock of messages". |
| 35 | 292 | "The arrangements of the cards would be limited," I said. |
| 35 | 293 | "That is not the problem," he said. |
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"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".
"That is far too complex in one sense," he said, "for it would require a storeroom of messages, and too simple in another, as one might wish to express something not in the stock of messages".
"The arrangements of the cards would be limited," I said.
"That is not the problem," he said.
- (Conspirators of Gor)