Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 244 | That I had not been View more quotes about trained">trained for this moment was intentional, as I later discovered. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 241 | I shut my eyes. |
| 3 | 242 | The Older Tarl took a tarn whistle, or tarn call, from his tunic and blew a piercing blast. |
| 3 | 243 | I had never seen one of the tarns before, except on the tapestry in my apartment and in illustrations in certain books I had studied devoted to the care, breeding, and equipment of tarns. |
| 3 | 244 | That I had not been trained for this moment was intentional, as I later discovered. |
| 3 | 245 | The Goreans believe, incredibly enough, that the capacity to master a tarn is innate and that some men possess this characteristic and that some do not. |
| 3 | 246 | One does not learn to master a tarn. |
| 3 | 247 | It is a matter of blood and spirit, of beast and man, of a relation between two beings which must be immediate, intuitive, spontaneous. |
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I shut my eyes.
The Older Tarl took a tarn whistle, or tarn call, from his tunic and blew a piercing blast.
I had never seen one of the tarns before, except on the tapestry in my apartment and in illustrations in certain books I had studied devoted to the care, breeding, and equipment of tarns.
That I had not been trained for this moment was intentional, as I later discovered.
The Goreans believe, incredibly enough, that the capacity to master a tarn is innate and that some men possess this characteristic and that some do not.
One does not learn to master a tarn.
It is a matter of blood and spirit, of beast and man, of a relation between two beings which must be immediate, intuitive, spontaneous.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)