Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 25 | 96 | In a way he reminded me of Pa-Kur, once master of the Assassins, save that Pa-Kur was not such as to be distracted by flowers, by poetry, the servings of tea, by sake, by the delights of delicate women under contract. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 25 | 93 | I wondered if one or more of the five were a spy, or one an assassin, truly, or if I had been told that merely to produce some effect in me. |
| 25 | 94 | If so, what effect? How would he know that one or more of the five was a spy, or that, amongst the five, there might be an assassin? Might this be conjecture on his part? Might it not even be the result of some aberration, or paranoia? But I did not think Lord Nishida insane. |
| 25 | 95 | He seemed one of the most coldly sane individuals I had ever met. |
| 25 | 96 | In a way he reminded me of Pa-Kur, once master of the Assassins, save that Pa-Kur was not such as to be distracted by flowers, by poetry, the servings of tea, by sake, by the delights of delicate women under contract. |
| 25 | 97 | Pa-Kur had sought power, single-mindedly, at the blade's edge. |
| 25 | 98 | For this he had forsworn vanities, or was it, rather, he would sacrifice all for what might prove to be the most evanescent, elusive, and alluring of all vanities, the vanity of vanities, power? I encountered another sentry. |
| 25 | 99 | The night it seemed, was going well. |
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I wondered if one or more of the five were a spy, or one an assassin, truly, or if I had been told that merely to produce some effect in me.
If so, what effect? How would he know that one or more of the five was a spy, or that, amongst the five, there might be an assassin? Might this be conjecture on his part? Might it not even be the result of some aberration, or paranoia? But I did not think Lord Nishida insane.
He seemed one of the most coldly sane individuals I had ever met.
In a way he reminded me of Pa-Kur, once master of the Assassins, save that Pa-Kur was not such as to be distracted by flowers, by poetry, the servings of tea, by sake, by the delights of delicate women under contract.
Pa-Kur had sought power, single-mindedly, at the blade's edge.
For this he had forsworn vanities, or was it, rather, he would sacrifice all for what might prove to be the most evanescent, elusive, and alluring of all vanities, the vanity of vanities, power? I encountered another sentry.
The night it seemed, was going well.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 25)