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It is interesting, I thought, the relationships between politics and reality, between words and deeds, between laws and enforcements, between formalities and facts. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 44, Sentence #30)

"I am pleased," said Lord Nishida, "that you have been reinstated as commander of the tarn cavalry". I bowed, politely. "The cavalry," said Pertinax, "never owned another". It is interesting, I thought, the relationships between politics and reality, between words and deeds, between laws and enforcements, between formalities and facts. Lord Temmu had relieved me of my command, as he thought, but the cavalry, as I understood it, had remained mine, and now, with no change in things, Lord Temmu had supposedly returned my command. But the reality was that the cavalry had repudiated in fact, if not in name, its allegiance to Lord Temmu, following his betrayal of me into the power of Lord Yamada. The cavalry was now, in fact, if not in name, an independent unit. - (Rebels of Gor)