Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 138 | "I shall show you someday," he said, "my own small home stone, which I keep in my chambers. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 135 | He smiled. |
| 2 | 136 | "You have much to learn of Gor," he said. |
| 2 | 137 | "Yet there is a hierarchy of home stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the home stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies. |
| 2 | 138 | "I shall show you someday," he said, "my own small home stone, which I keep in my chambers. |
| 2 | 139 | It encloses a handful of soil from the Earth, a handful of soil that I first brought with me when I came to this world—a long time ago". |
| 2 | 140 | He looked at me evenly. |
| 2 | 141 | "I shall keep the handful of earth you brought," he said, his voice very quiet, "and someday it may be yours". |
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He smiled.
"You have much to learn of Gor," he said.
"Yet there is a hierarchy of home stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the home stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies.
"I shall show you someday," he said, "my own small home stone, which I keep in my chambers.
It encloses a handful of soil from the Earth, a handful of soil that I first brought with me when I came to this world—a long time ago".
He looked at me evenly.
"I shall keep the handful of earth you brought," he said, his voice very quiet, "and someday it may be yours".
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 2)