Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 21 | 485 | And in the storm it could not see View more quotes about clearly">clearly beyond the portal. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 21 | 482 | I knew the Kur must be cunning, if not brilliant. |
| 21 | 483 | It could be no accident that this Kur and not another had received this dreadful assignment, to protect the device of a planet's destruction until its detonation. |
| 21 | 484 | But also it would be under stress. |
| 21 | 485 | And in the storm it could not see clearly beyond the portal. |
| 21 | 486 | It would assume that I would not relinquish the shield of the ring's invisibility. |
| 21 | 487 | A diversion would be ineffective, for what could draw the Kur from his position? If the blood of the slaughtered humans about had not been sufficient to override his obedience to the dark imperatives of the steel worlds, I did not think anything I might contrive could lure him forth. |
| 21 | 488 | He had resisted blood; the will of this Kur, restraining its instincts of feasting and carnival, must be mighty indeed. |
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I knew the Kur must be cunning, if not brilliant.
It could be no accident that this Kur and not another had received this dreadful assignment, to protect the device of a planet's destruction until its detonation.
But also it would be under stress.
And in the storm it could not see clearly beyond the portal.
It would assume that I would not relinquish the shield of the ring's invisibility.
A diversion would be ineffective, for what could draw the Kur from his position? If the blood of the slaughtered humans about had not been sufficient to override his obedience to the dark imperatives of the steel worlds, I did not think anything I might contrive could lure him forth.
He had resisted blood; the will of this Kur, restraining its instincts of feasting and carnival, must be mighty indeed.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)