Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 14 | 177 | "Doubtless," he said. |
| 14 | 178 | "And you amongst them?" I ventured. |
| 14 | 179 | "I would suppose so," he said. |
| 14 | 180 | Many are the strands of intrigue, and a tremor in one strand, as in the web of the urt spider, is often registered in several others. |
| 14 | 181 | Not unoften he who presumes himself a spy, secure in station and privileged in access, reporting upon others, is himself under suspicion. |
| 14 | 182 | Is it not often the case that the first is concerned with the second, and the second with the third, and the third with the first, and in the center of all this, attending to the strands, rather like the urt spider itself, there is something which observes and waits. |
| 14 | 183 | But here the web is invisible, and what observes and waits is unseen. |
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"Doubtless," he said.
"And you amongst them?" I ventured.
"I would suppose so," he said.
Many are the strands of intrigue, and a tremor in one strand, as in the web of the urt spider, is often registered in several others.
Not unoften he who presumes himself a spy, secure in station and privileged in access, reporting upon others, is himself under suspicion.
Is it not often the case that the first is concerned with the second, and the second with the third, and the third with the first, and in the center of all this, attending to the strands, rather like the urt spider itself, there is something which observes and waits.
But here the web is invisible, and what observes and waits is unseen.
- (Smugglers of Gor, Chapter )