Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 7 | 85 | At View more quotes about last">last I decided to force the game. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 7 | 82 | When men stalk one another with weapons it is well to have patience, great patience. |
| 7 | 83 | It of course occurred to me a hundred times that I was foolish, for actually I was conscious of having heard nothing. |
| 7 | 84 | Yet my awareness or sense that something followed me in the corridor might well have been occasioned by some tiny sound which my conscious mind had not even registered, but yet which had impinged on my senses, leaving as its only conscious trace a vague wind of suspicion. |
| 7 | 85 | At last I decided to force the game. |
| 7 | 86 | My decision was motivated in part by the fact that the hall allowed few concealments for ambush and I would presumably see my pursuer almost as soon as he saw me. |
| 7 | 87 | If he were not carrying a missile weapon it would make little difference. |
| 7 | 88 | And if he had been carrying such a weapon why had he not slain me before? I smiled grimly. |
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When men stalk one another with weapons it is well to have patience, great patience.
It of course occurred to me a hundred times that I was foolish, for actually I was conscious of having heard nothing.
Yet my awareness or sense that something followed me in the corridor might well have been occasioned by some tiny sound which my conscious mind had not even registered, but yet which had impinged on my senses, leaving as its only conscious trace a vague wind of suspicion.
At last I decided to force the game.
My decision was motivated in part by the fact that the hall allowed few concealments for ambush and I would presumably see my pursuer almost as soon as he saw me.
If he were not carrying a missile weapon it would make little difference.
And if he had been carrying such a weapon why had he not slain me before? I smiled grimly.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)