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Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor (Individual Quote)

In the bleak light the ruin of the night stood revealed in stark, brutal lucidity. - (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter 20, Sentence #27)
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20 27 In the bleak View more quotes about light">light the ruin of the night stood revealed in stark, brutal lucidity.

Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)

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20 24 I left the hut, scanning the skies.
20 25 There were no tarnsmen yet in sight.
20 26 The three moons were faint now, like pale white disks in the brightening sky, and the sun was half risen from the throne of the horizon.
20 27 In the bleak light the ruin of the night stood revealed in stark, brutal lucidity.
20 28 The ugly grounds of the compound, its lonely wooden huts, its brown soil and bare hard rocks, were deserted save by the dead.
20 29 Among the litter of pillaging—papers, opened boxes, broken staves, split boards and wire—there lay, sprawled frozen in stiff, grotesque postures, the unsubtle shapes of death, the scattered, contorted, slashed bodies of naked men.
20 30 Some wisps of dust swirled past like animals sniffing about the feet of the bodies.
I left the hut, scanning the skies. There were no tarnsmen yet in sight. The three moons were faint now, like pale white disks in the brightening sky, and the sun was half risen from the throne of the horizon. In the bleak light the ruin of the night stood revealed in stark, brutal lucidity. The ugly grounds of the compound, its lonely wooden huts, its brown soil and bare hard rocks, were deserted save by the dead. Among the litter of pillaging—papers, opened boxes, broken staves, split boards and wire—there lay, sprawled frozen in stiff, grotesque postures, the unsubtle shapes of death, the scattered, contorted, slashed bodies of naked men. Some wisps of dust swirled past like animals sniffing about the feet of the bodies. - (Outlaw of Gor)