Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 17 | 109 | "Of course," said Sarm, "but such an instrument, if it were to be a genuinely satisfactory substitute for an Implanted One, would have to be extremely complex—consider provisions for the self-repair of damaged tissue alone—and thus, in the end, would itself have to approximate a humanoid organism. |
| 17 | 110 | Accordingly with humans themselves so plentiful the construction of such a device would be nothing but an irrational misuse of our resources". |
| 17 | 111 | Once again I looked into the observation cube, and wondered about that unknown man, or what had been a man, through whose eyes I now looked. |
| 17 | 112 | I, in the very Nest of priest-kings, was more free than he who walked the stones of some road in the bright sun, somewhere beyond the palisade, far from the mountains of priest-kings yet still in the shadow of the Sardar. |
| 17 | 113 | "Can he disobey you?" I asked. |
| 17 | 114 | "Sometimes there is a struggle to resist the net or regain consciousness," said Sarm. |
| 17 | 115 | "Could a man so resist you that he could throw off the power of the net?" "I doubt it," said Sarm, "unless the net were faulty". |
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"Of course," said Sarm, "but such an instrument, if it were to be a genuinely satisfactory substitute for an Implanted One, would have to be extremely complex—consider provisions for the self-repair of damaged tissue alone—and thus, in the end, would itself have to approximate a humanoid organism.
Accordingly with humans themselves so plentiful the construction of such a device would be nothing but an irrational misuse of our resources".
Once again I looked into the observation cube, and wondered about that unknown man, or what had been a man, through whose eyes I now looked.
I, in the very Nest of priest-kings, was more free than he who walked the stones of some road in the bright sun, somewhere beyond the palisade, far from the mountains of priest-kings yet still in the shadow of the Sardar.
"Can he disobey you?" I asked.
"Sometimes there is a struggle to resist the net or regain consciousness," said Sarm.
"Could a man so resist you that he could throw off the power of the net?" "I doubt it," said Sarm, "unless the net were faulty".
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )