Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 43 | 212 | The fire, then, after a time, suitably subsided. |
| 43 | 213 | It had served as a clock. |
| 43 | 214 | Factors such as impatience can occasionally distort one's subjective estimations of the length of various temporal intervals. |
| 43 | 215 | These confusions and distortions, of course, are eliminated, at least to a large extent, by having recourse to various stages in some presumably continuous, objective process. |
| 43 | 216 | Is this not the sort of thing which is involved in the ringed candles, in the tiny stream of water in the clepsydra, in the falling sand in the Ahn glass, in the alternation of day and night, and in the calendar of the stars? I stirred up the fire again, so that I might better see what I was doing. |
| 43 | 217 | By now Cuwignaka and Hci should be in place. |
| 43 | 218 | I stood up. |
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The fire, then, after a time, suitably subsided.
It had served as a clock.
Factors such as impatience can occasionally distort one's subjective estimations of the length of various temporal intervals.
These confusions and distortions, of course, are eliminated, at least to a large extent, by having recourse to various stages in some presumably continuous, objective process.
Is this not the sort of thing which is involved in the ringed candles, in the tiny stream of water in the clepsydra, in the falling sand in the Ahn glass, in the alternation of day and night, and in the calendar of the stars? I stirred up the fire again, so that I might better see what I was doing.
By now Cuwignaka and Hci should be in place.
I stood up.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor, Chapter )