Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 4 | 54 | The View more quotes about city">city must be in darkness. |
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 4 | 51 | It was true. |
| 4 | 52 | I should now be able to see the lights of Ko-ro-ba. |
| 4 | 53 | Yet I could see nothing. |
| 4 | 54 | The city must be in darkness. |
| 4 | 55 | Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's far-roving tarnsmen back to the shelter of her walls? I stood by the pasang stone, trying to understand. |
| 4 | 56 | I was confused, uncertain. |
| 4 | 57 | Now that I had not seen the lights of Ko-ro-ba, as I would have expected, it struck me more forcibly that I had not even seen the lights of peasant cooking fires glowing in the hills surrounding the city, or the torches of rash sportsmen who hunt the sleen by night. |
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It was true.
I should now be able to see the lights of Ko-ro-ba.
Yet I could see nothing.
The city must be in darkness.
Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's far-roving tarnsmen back to the shelter of her walls? I stood by the pasang stone, trying to understand.
I was confused, uncertain.
Now that I had not seen the lights of Ko-ro-ba, as I would have expected, it struck me more forcibly that I had not even seen the lights of peasant cooking fires glowing in the hills surrounding the city, or the torches of rash sportsmen who hunt the sleen by night.
- (Outlaw of Gor)