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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)

I think I will carry its simple, abrupt message burned into the cells of my brain until, as it is elsewhere said, I have returned to the Cities of Dust. - (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 1, Sentence #139)
Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 139 I think I will carry its simple, abrupt message burned into the cells of my brain until, as it is elsewhere said, I have returned to the cities of dust.

Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 136 It seemed my vision reeled; I couldn't move.
1 137 Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an incredible date, delivered more than three hundred years later in the mountains of New Hampshire, written by a man who presumably, if still alive, was, as we reckon time, no more than fifty years of age—my father.
1 138 Even now I can remember the letter to the last word.
1 139 I think I will carry its simple, abrupt message burned into the cells of my brain until, as it is elsewhere said, I have returned to the cities of dust.
1 140 The third day of February, in the Year of Our Lord 1640.
1 141 Tarl Cabot, Son: Forgive me, but I have little choice in these matters.
1 142 It has been decided.
It seemed my vision reeled; I couldn't move. Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an incredible date, delivered more than three hundred years later in the mountains of New Hampshire, written by a man who presumably, if still alive, was, as we reckon time, no more than fifty years of age—my father. Even now I can remember the letter to the last word. I think I will carry its simple, abrupt message burned into the cells of my brain until, as it is elsewhere said, I have returned to the cities of dust. The third day of February, in the Year of Our Lord 1640. Tarl Cabot, Son: Forgive me, but I have little choice in these matters. It has been decided. - (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 1)