Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
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1092
It seems they are simply not regarded, on the whole, as being suitable foes, or foes worthy enough to stand within the coup structure.
1
1093
It is not that the red savages object to killing them.
1
1094
It is only that they do not take pride, commonly, in doing so.
1
1095
Similarly a man of the high cities would not expect to be publicly rewarded for having speared a tarsk or slain an urt.
1
1096
Accordingly the red savage will seldom go out of his way to slay a white person; he commonly sees little profit in doing so; in killing such a person, he is not entitled to count coup.
1
1097
"The man, now," said Kog, "is not fifty feet from the mounted hunters.
1
1098
In the soft snow he has descended the slope silently".
It seems they are simply not regarded, on the whole, as being suitable foes, or foes worthy enough to stand within the coup structure.
It is not that the red savages object to killing them.
It is only that they do not take pride, commonly, in doing so.
Similarly a man of the high cities would not expect to be publicly rewarded for having speared a tarsk or slain an urt.
Accordingly the red savage will seldom go out of his way to slay a white person; he commonly sees little profit in doing so; in killing such a person, he is not entitled to count coup.
"The man, now," said Kog, "is not fifty feet from the mounted hunters.
In the soft snow he has descended the slope silently".
- (Savages of Gor, Chapter )