Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 4 | Such a connection seems unlikely for a number of reasons, among them the fact that my people were simple tradesmen of Bristol, and uniformly fair-complexioned and topped with a blaze of the most outrageous red hair. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 1 | A Handful of Earth My name is Tarl Cabot. |
| 1 | 2 | The name is supposed to have been shortened in the fifteenth century from the Italian surname Caboto. |
| 1 | 3 | As far as I know, however, I have no connection with the Venetian explorer who carried the banner of Henry VII to the New World. |
| 1 | 4 | Such a connection seems unlikely for a number of reasons, among them the fact that my people were simple tradesmen of Bristol, and uniformly fair-complexioned and topped with a blaze of the most outrageous red hair. |
| 1 | 5 | Nonetheless, such coincidences, even if they are only geographical, linger in family memory—our small challenge to the ledgers and arithmetic of an existence measured in bolts of cloth sold. |
| 1 | 6 | I like to think there may have been a Cabot in Bristol, one of us, who watched our Italian namesake weigh anchor in the early morning of that second of May, 1497. |
| 1 | 7 | You may remark my first name, and I assure you that it gave me quite as much trouble as it might you, particularly during my early school years, when it occasioned almost as many contests of physical skill as my red hair. |
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A Handful of Earth My name is Tarl Cabot.
The name is supposed to have been shortened in the fifteenth century from the Italian surname Caboto.
As far as I know, however, I have no connection with the Venetian explorer who carried the banner of Henry VII to the New World.
Such a connection seems unlikely for a number of reasons, among them the fact that my people were simple tradesmen of Bristol, and uniformly fair-complexioned and topped with a blaze of the most outrageous red hair.
Nonetheless, such coincidences, even if they are only geographical, linger in family memory—our small challenge to the ledgers and arithmetic of an existence measured in bolts of cloth sold.
I like to think there may have been a Cabot in Bristol, one of us, who watched our Italian namesake weigh anchor in the early morning of that second of May, 1497.
You may remark my first name, and I assure you that it gave me quite as much trouble as it might you, particularly during my early school years, when it occasioned almost as many contests of physical skill as my red hair.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 1)