Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 9 | What is this object? One might speak of it as many things, the subject of secret, violent intrigues; the source of vast strifes beneath the Sardar, strifes unknown to the men of Gor; the concealed, precious, hidden hope of an incredible and ancient race; a simple germ; a bit of living tissue; the dormant potentiality of a people's rebirth, the seed of gods—an egg—the last and only egg of priest-kings. |
| 2 | 10 | But why was it I who came? Why not priest-kings in their ships and power, with their fierce weapons and fantastic devices? priest-kings cannot stand the sun. |
| 2 | 11 | They are not as men and men, seeing them, would fear them. |
| 2 | 12 | Men would not believe they were priest-kings. |
| 2 | 13 | Men conceive priest-kings as they conceive themselves. |
| 2 | 14 | The object—the egg—might be destroyed before it could be delivered to them. |
| 2 | 15 | It might already have been destroyed. |
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What is this object? One might speak of it as many things, the subject of secret, violent intrigues; the source of vast strifes beneath the Sardar, strifes unknown to the men of Gor; the concealed, precious, hidden hope of an incredible and ancient race; a simple germ; a bit of living tissue; the dormant potentiality of a people's rebirth, the seed of gods—an egg—the last and only egg of priest-kings.
But why was it I who came? Why not priest-kings in their ships and power, with their fierce weapons and fantastic devices? priest-kings cannot stand the sun.
They are not as men and men, seeing them, would fear them.
Men would not believe they were priest-kings.
Men conceive priest-kings as they conceive themselves.
The object—the egg—might be destroyed before it could be delivered to them.
It might already have been destroyed.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter )