Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 11 | 186 | It View more quotes about seemed">seemed to me unlikely that this was a mirage. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 11 | 183 | "You speak in riddles," I said. |
| 11 | 184 | "It is a mirage," said he. |
| 11 | 185 | I looked again. |
| 11 | 186 | It seemed to me unlikely that this was a mirage. |
| 11 | 187 | I was familiar with two sorts of mirages on the desert, of the sort which might be, and often were, seen by normal individuals under normal circumstances, not the mirages of the dehydrated body, the sun-crazed brain, not private hallucinatory images. |
| 11 | 188 | The most common sort of mirage is simply the interpretation of heat waves, shimmering on the desert, as the ripples in water, as in a lake or pond. |
| 11 | 189 | When the sky is reflected in this rising, heated air, the mirage is even more striking, because then the surface of the "lake," reflecting the sky, seems blue, and, thus, even more waterlike. |
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"You speak in riddles," I said.
"It is a mirage," said he.
I looked again.
It seemed to me unlikely that this was a mirage.
I was familiar with two sorts of mirages on the desert, of the sort which might be, and often were, seen by normal individuals under normal circumstances, not the mirages of the dehydrated body, the sun-crazed brain, not private hallucinatory images.
The most common sort of mirage is simply the interpretation of heat waves, shimmering on the desert, as the ripples in water, as in a lake or pond.
When the sky is reflected in this rising, heated air, the mirage is even more striking, because then the surface of the "lake," reflecting the sky, seems blue, and, thus, even more waterlike.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)