Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 175 | "Such devices are prohibited". |
| 27 | 176 | "You have in mind secret, forbidden devices?" asked Haruki. |
| 27 | 177 | "Yes," I said. |
| 27 | 178 | "I know little of priest-kings, or their laws, or thoughts," said Haruki, "or that there are priest-kings, or that they think, but there are many ways to communicate quickly, to transmit even complex messages, explaining situations, issuing instructions, indicating directions, and such. |
| 27 | 179 | In daylight, flags may be used, and mirrors, and at night, the movements of double torches, or the light of a single lantern, revealed, and shielded, alternately". |
| 27 | 180 | "Yes," I said, dismally, resigned, "yes". |
| 27 | 181 | How quick I had been to suppose illegal deceit and even perilous, surreptitious dishonesty, a betrayal of principles and understandings, a departure from implicit rules without which a game, even a mighty game on which might depend worlds, would be forsworn and treacherously subverted! But I recalled, too, that I had seen tracks on a rainy afternoon in the palace, and had sensed in a corridor the odor of wet fur, a particular scent, one I had never forgotten, one I had hitherto encountered, at various times and places, the scent of Kur. |
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"Such devices are prohibited".
"You have in mind secret, forbidden devices?" asked Haruki.
"Yes," I said.
"I know little of priest-kings, or their laws, or thoughts," said Haruki, "or that there are priest-kings, or that they think, but there are many ways to communicate quickly, to transmit even complex messages, explaining situations, issuing instructions, indicating directions, and such.
In daylight, flags may be used, and mirrors, and at night, the movements of double torches, or the light of a single lantern, revealed, and shielded, alternately".
"Yes," I said, dismally, resigned, "yes".
How quick I had been to suppose illegal deceit and even perilous, surreptitious dishonesty, a betrayal of principles and understandings, a departure from implicit rules without which a game, even a mighty game on which might depend worlds, would be forsworn and treacherously subverted! But I recalled, too, that I had seen tracks on a rainy afternoon in the palace, and had sensed in a corridor the odor of wet fur, a particular scent, one I had never forgotten, one I had hitherto encountered, at various times and places, the scent of Kur.
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