Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 11 | 138 | The cat, if rational, View more quotes about might">might find amusement in the twitching and trembling of the mouse which it is destroying, particle by particle. |
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 11 | 135 | I then understood this clearly as a smile. |
| 11 | 136 | That the Kurii possessed a sense of humor did not much reassure me as to their nature. |
| 11 | 137 | I wondered rather in what sort of situations it might find its object. |
| 11 | 138 | The cat, if rational, might find amusement in the twitching and trembling of the mouse which it is destroying, particle by particle. |
| 11 | 139 | That a species laughs bespeaks its intelligence, its capacity to reason, not its goodness, not its harmlessness. |
| 11 | 140 | Like a knife, reason is innocent; like a knife, its application is a function of the hand that grasps it, the energies and will which drive it. |
| 11 | 141 | "We were not always simple farmers," said the Kur. |
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I then understood this clearly as a smile.
That the Kurii possessed a sense of humor did not much reassure me as to their nature.
I wondered rather in what sort of situations it might find its object.
The cat, if rational, might find amusement in the twitching and trembling of the mouse which it is destroying, particle by particle.
That a species laughs bespeaks its intelligence, its capacity to reason, not its goodness, not its harmlessness.
Like a knife, reason is innocent; like a knife, its application is a function of the hand that grasps it, the energies and will which drive it.
"We were not always simple farmers," said the Kur.
- (Marauders of Gor)