He had said to me, "Man is a larl to man; if we permitted him, he would be so to Priest-Kings as well".
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"But man must be free," I had said.
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"Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the Priest-King, adding, "Man is not yet rational".
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But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for Priest-Kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a readiness to relinquish his place in an old world to prepare a mansion for the new; to have and love a child, so to speak, for Misk, who is a Priest-King, neither male nor female, yet can love.
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I recalled a windy night in the shadow of the Sardar when we had spoken of strange things, and I had left him and come down the hill, and had asked the leader of those with whom I had traveled the way to the Land of the Wagon Peoples.
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I had found it.
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The dust rolled nearer, the ground seemed more to move than ever.
He had said to me, "Man is a larl to man; if we permitted him, he would be so to Priest-Kings as well".
"But man must be free," I had said.
"Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the Priest-King, adding, "Man is not yet rational".
But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for Priest-Kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a readiness to relinquish his place in an old world to prepare a mansion for the new; to have and love a child, so to speak, for Misk, who is a Priest-King, neither male nor female, yet can love.
I recalled a windy night in the shadow of the Sardar when we had spoken of strange things, and I had left him and come down the hill, and had asked the leader of those with whom I had traveled the way to the Land of the Wagon Peoples.
I had found it.
The dust rolled nearer, the ground seemed more to move than ever.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter )