Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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Indeed, I have little doubt that she had been selected for me, with great care and skill, perhaps from amongst thousands, that she had been matched expertly to my inclinations, preferences, and needs, inclinations, preferences, and needs of which I might not even have been aware.
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265
Two other factors, too, I suspect, were involved.
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266
As she had been matched to me, I suspect that I had been matched to her, as well.
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267
The priest-kings, I suspect, had, so to speak, fitted us together.
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268
Had she no need of such as I, the temptation would have been primarily mine, and it would have failed of its devastating symmetricality.
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269
But I, so desiring her, how helpless I would have been, had she been, sooner or later, similarly distressed and tormented.
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270
How could we have then failed to embrace, and therewith comply with the will and intrigues of priest-kings? Do they not use us as their pawns, their dupes, and instruments? Using our congruent natures how could we, so subtly manipulated, have failed to dance upon their strings? The other factor involved was one I sensed early, the deep nature of the lovely English female, but had confirmed only after the rupturing of the Prison Moon, after the destruction and melting of a steel gate, and the opening of the container, these events implicated in the Kur raid, in their hurried, transitory seizure of an artificial moon, or a portion thereof, in that fearful traversing of forbidden borders, an act of perhaps unwise transgression, the fruit perhaps of a strange wager, one in which the winnings, seemingly the liberation of a single, imprisoned warrior, and one commonly their foe, would seem small, put against the risks of loss, the possible retribution and reprisal of priest-kings, masters of Gor and her space.
Indeed, I have little doubt that she had been selected for me, with great care and skill, perhaps from amongst thousands, that she had been matched expertly to my inclinations, preferences, and needs, inclinations, preferences, and needs of which I might not even have been aware.
Two other factors, too, I suspect, were involved.
As she had been matched to me, I suspect that I had been matched to her, as well.
The priest-kings, I suspect, had, so to speak, fitted us together.
Had she no need of such as I, the temptation would have been primarily mine, and it would have failed of its devastating symmetricality.
But I, so desiring her, how helpless I would have been, had she been, sooner or later, similarly distressed and tormented.
How could we have then failed to embrace, and therewith comply with the will and intrigues of priest-kings? Do they not use us as their pawns, their dupes, and instruments? Using our congruent natures how could we, so subtly manipulated, have failed to dance upon their strings? The other factor involved was one I sensed early, the deep nature of the lovely English female, but had confirmed only after the rupturing of the Prison Moon, after the destruction and melting of a steel gate, and the opening of the container, these events implicated in the Kur raid, in their hurried, transitory seizure of an artificial moon, or a portion thereof, in that fearful traversing of forbidden borders, an act of perhaps unwise transgression, the fruit perhaps of a strange wager, one in which the winnings, seemingly the liberation of a single, imprisoned warrior, and one commonly their foe, would seem small, put against the risks of loss, the possible retribution and reprisal of priest-kings, masters of Gor and her space.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter )