| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 35 | 139 | "It is based," he said, "on View more quotes about something">something I heard long ago in Sybaris, when I lay in a half stupor in the tavern, The Living Island. |
| 35 | 140 | A mariner spoke, whom I now realize must have been a corsair. |
| 35 | 141 | He was telling of something he himself had overheard". |
| 35 | 142 | "Proceed," I said. |
| 35 | 143 | "What can this be but hearsay based on hearsay?" he asked. |
| 35 | 144 | "Sometimes," I said, "nothing is something, and a little may be much". |
| 35 | 145 | "There was thinking going about, following what was heard," he said, "that it might be possible to attack, loot, and raze not a village but a town". |