Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
2
347
Were I to hunt the world's end I would prefer to do so with the Dorna or the Tesephone, a sleek ship whose moods and gifts I well knew.
2
348
Yet the ship of Tersites was strong.
2
349
It loomed high and awesome, mighty with its strakes, proud with its uprearing prow, facing the sea canal.
2
350
Standing beside the ship, on the ground, looking up at that high prow, so far above me, it seemed sometime that such a ship, if any, might embark upon that threatening, perhaps impossible voyage to the world's end.
2
351
Tersites had chosen to build the ship in such a way that its prow faced west; it pointed thus not only to the sea canal; it pointed also between Cos and Tyros; it pointed toward the world's end.
2
352
"The eyes have not yet been painted," I said.
2
353
"It is not yet alive".
Were I to hunt the world's end I would prefer to do so with the Dorna or the Tesephone, a sleek ship whose moods and gifts I well knew.
Yet the ship of Tersites was strong.
It loomed high and awesome, mighty with its strakes, proud with its uprearing prow, facing the sea canal.
Standing beside the ship, on the ground, looking up at that high prow, so far above me, it seemed sometime that such a ship, if any, might embark upon that threatening, perhaps impossible voyage to the world's end.
Tersites had chosen to build the ship in such a way that its prow faced west; it pointed thus not only to the sea canal; it pointed also between Cos and Tyros; it pointed toward the world's end.
"The eyes have not yet been painted," I said.
"It is not yet alive".
- (Beasts of Gor, Chapter )