Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
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187
Many seek a cell, if only its bars be of gold? The wine of riches is a heady wine.
1
188
But one knows a stronger wine, one for which many are willing to stake life itself.
1
189
What delirium of kanda, I wondered, can compare with the rapture of that greater drug? But who, who listens carefully, can fail to hear the dark notes of terror in its bright song, to which the unwary hasten to succumb.
1
190
Its wine is the headiest.
1
191
I heard guardsmen call the watch, that all was well.
1
192
Is the throne not, I wondered, its own prison.
1
193
Is it worth the expenditure of blood and gold? Surely many believe so, certainly if others may be brought to pay the price.
Many seek a cell, if only its bars be of gold? The wine of riches is a heady wine.
But one knows a stronger wine, one for which many are willing to stake life itself.
What delirium of kanda, I wondered, can compare with the rapture of that greater drug? But who, who listens carefully, can fail to hear the dark notes of terror in its bright song, to which the unwary hasten to succumb.
Its wine is the headiest.
I heard guardsmen call the watch, that all was well.
Is the throne not, I wondered, its own prison.
Is it worth the expenditure of blood and gold? Surely many believe so, certainly if others may be brought to pay the price.
- (Rebels of Gor, Chapter )