Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 57 | "You are all mad!" screamed the girl, pulling at the straps that bound her, struggling in the bonds. |
| 6 | 58 | "Mad!" The Tuchuks and the others looked at one another, puzzled. |
| 6 | 59 | I did not speak. |
| 6 | 60 | I was thunderstruck that a girl, apparently of Earth, who spoke English, should be brought to the Tuchuks at this time—at the time that I was among them, hoping to discover and return to priest-kings what I supposed to be a golden spheroid, the egg, the last hope of their race. |
| 6 | 61 | Had the girl been brought to this world by priest-kings? Was she the recent victim of one of the Voyages of Acquisition? But I understood them to have been curtailed in the recent subterranean War of priest-kings. |
| 6 | 62 | Had they been resumed? Surely this girl had not been long on Gor, perhaps no more than hours. |
| 6 | 63 | But if the Voyages of Acquisition had been resumed, why had they been resumed? Or was it actually the case that she had been brought to Gor by priest-kings? Were there perhaps—others—somehow others? Was this woman sent to the Tuchuks at this time—perhaps released to wander on the plains—inevitably to be picked up by outriders—for a purpose—and if so, to what end—for whose purpose or purposes? Or was there somehow some fantastic accident or coincidence involved in the event of her arrival? Somehow I knew the latter was not likely to be the case. |
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"You are all mad!" screamed the girl, pulling at the straps that bound her, struggling in the bonds.
"Mad!" The Tuchuks and the others looked at one another, puzzled.
I did not speak.
I was thunderstruck that a girl, apparently of Earth, who spoke English, should be brought to the Tuchuks at this time—at the time that I was among them, hoping to discover and return to priest-kings what I supposed to be a golden spheroid, the egg, the last hope of their race.
Had the girl been brought to this world by priest-kings? Was she the recent victim of one of the Voyages of Acquisition? But I understood them to have been curtailed in the recent subterranean War of priest-kings.
Had they been resumed? Surely this girl had not been long on Gor, perhaps no more than hours.
But if the Voyages of Acquisition had been resumed, why had they been resumed? Or was it actually the case that she had been brought to Gor by priest-kings? Were there perhaps—others—somehow others? Was this woman sent to the Tuchuks at this time—perhaps released to wander on the plains—inevitably to be picked up by outriders—for a purpose—and if so, to what end—for whose purpose or purposes? Or was there somehow some fantastic accident or coincidence involved in the event of her arrival? Somehow I knew the latter was not likely to be the case.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter )