Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 52 | The myths of these matters have it that while the home stone survives, so, too, must the city. |
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 49 | In the home stone—sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the city was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or granite—the city finds its symbol. |
| 2 | 50 | Yet to speak of a symbol is to fall short of the mark. |
| 2 | 51 | It is almost as if the city itself were identified with the home stone, as if it were to the city what life is to a man. |
| 2 | 52 | The myths of these matters have it that while the home stone survives, so, too, must the city. |
| 2 | 53 | But not only is it the case that each city has its home stone. |
| 2 | 54 | The simplest and humblest village, and even the most primitive hut in that village, perhaps only a cone of straw, will contain its own home stone, as will the fantastically appointed chambers of the Administrator of so great a city as Ar. |
| 2 | 55 | My home stone was the home stone of Ko-ro-ba, that city to which I had seven years ago pledged my sword. |
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In the home stone—sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the city was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or granite—the city finds its symbol.
Yet to speak of a symbol is to fall short of the mark.
It is almost as if the city itself were identified with the home stone, as if it were to the city what life is to a man.
The myths of these matters have it that while the home stone survives, so, too, must the city.
But not only is it the case that each city has its home stone.
The simplest and humblest village, and even the most primitive hut in that village, perhaps only a cone of straw, will contain its own home stone, as will the fantastically appointed chambers of the Administrator of so great a city as Ar.
My home stone was the home stone of Ko-ro-ba, that city to which I had seven years ago pledged my sword.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter 2)