Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 264 | Not until one has lost one's curiosity, and concern, can one be said to be truly old. |
| 1 | 265 | I had two friends, in particular, who were priest-kings, Misk, and Kusk. |
| 1 | 266 | I did not think that they, in this sense, could ever grow old. |
| 1 | 267 | But they were only two, two of a handful of survivors of a once mighty race, that of the lofty and golden priest-kings. |
| 1 | 268 | To be sure, I had managed, long ago, to return the last female egg of priest-kings to the Nest. |
| 1 | 269 | Too, among the survivors, protected from assassination by the preceding generation, there had been a young male. |
| 1 | 270 | But I had never learned what had occurred in the Nest after the return of the egg. |
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Not until one has lost one's curiosity, and concern, can one be said to be truly old.
I had two friends, in particular, who were priest-kings, Misk, and Kusk.
I did not think that they, in this sense, could ever grow old.
But they were only two, two of a handful of survivors of a once mighty race, that of the lofty and golden priest-kings.
To be sure, I had managed, long ago, to return the last female egg of priest-kings to the Nest.
Too, among the survivors, protected from assassination by the preceding generation, there had been a young male.
But I had never learned what had occurred in the Nest after the return of the egg.
- (Savages of Gor, Chapter )