Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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The sounds of playing children carry through the open window.
The sounds of playing children carry through the open window.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 20, Sentence #4)
Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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Epilogue It is time now for a lonely man to conclude his narrative, without bitterness but without resignation.
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I have never surrendered the hope that someday, somehow, I might return to Gor, our Counter-Earth.
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These final sentences are written in a small apartment in Manhattan, some six floors above the street.
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The sounds of playing children carry through the open window.
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I have refused to return to England, and I will remain in this country from which I departed, years ago, for that distant world which holds what I most love.
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I can see the blazing sun this July afternoon, and know that behind it, counterpoised with my native planet, lies another world.
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And I wonder if on that world a girl, now a woman, thinks of me, and perhaps, too, of the secrets I have told her lie behind her sun, Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone.
Epilogue It is time now for a lonely man to conclude his narrative, without bitterness but without resignation.
I have never surrendered the hope that someday, somehow, I might return to Gor, our Counter-Earth.
These final sentences are written in a small apartment in Manhattan, some six floors above the street.
The sounds of playing children carry through the open window.
I have refused to return to England, and I will remain in this country from which I departed, years ago, for that distant world which holds what I most love.
I can see the blazing sun this July afternoon, and know that behind it, counterpoised with my native planet, lies another world.
And I wonder if on that world a girl, now a woman, thinks of me, and perhaps, too, of the secrets I have told her lie behind her sun, Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 20)