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In my crude way I found myself less rapt with delight than concerned with certain practical assessments, with, say, measuring distances, and calculating times. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 15, Sentence #41)

Such things, as the notes of a melody, are most pleasing when experienced in a certain order. Ela, I felt, there is so much here with which I have so little to do. How much here, I thought, must be wasted on, and lost to, a barbarian sensibility. In my crude way I found myself less rapt with delight than concerned with certain practical assessments, with, say, measuring distances, and calculating times. How long, for example, would it take to traverse, say, the corridor between the gate of the garden, if I could reach it, from the courtyard, or palace steps, and the cover of the garden, and between this cover, and the exterior wall? I considered the height of the walls. Quite high. No trees I noted were near enough to the walls to afford access to the summit of a wall. - (Rebels of Gor)