Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 26 | 67 | Few survive to carry the "dark sword". |
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 26 | 64 | Few are permitted to compete, and of those who are permitted to compete, few live to don the sable tunic. |
| 26 | 65 | It is not easy to climb the nine steps of blood. |
| 26 | 66 | There is no place in the caste, incidentally, for the inept and dull, for thugs, vandals, and bullies, for the naively, simplistically brutal, for the petty, or the merely cruel and greedy, for the refuse of a city's gutters, for those regarded as the unworthy. |
| 26 | 67 | Few survive to carry the "dark sword". |
| 26 | 68 | Doubtless there are reasons why one, perhaps despairing and ruined, might seek entrance into dreaded precincts. |
| 26 | 69 | Amongst applicants might be found the dishonored and failed, the disappointed and abandoned, the despised and hated, the hopeless and resigned, the mocked and ridiculed, ones who have fled from Home Stones, who have repudiated codes, perhaps fugitives who seek a sanctuary behind dark walls, possibly seekers of thrills, possibly mercenaries intent on bartering steel for gold, without compunction, perhaps those seeking approval for their pathological instincts that, suitably exercised, will be condoned, even celebrated. |
| 26 | 70 | It is hard to say. |
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Few are permitted to compete, and of those who are permitted to compete, few live to don the sable tunic.
It is not easy to climb the nine steps of blood.
There is no place in the caste, incidentally, for the inept and dull, for thugs, vandals, and bullies, for the naively, simplistically brutal, for the petty, or the merely cruel and greedy, for the refuse of a city's gutters, for those regarded as the unworthy.
Few survive to carry the "dark sword".
Doubtless there are reasons why one, perhaps despairing and ruined, might seek entrance into dreaded precincts.
Amongst applicants might be found the dishonored and failed, the disappointed and abandoned, the despised and hated, the hopeless and resigned, the mocked and ridiculed, ones who have fled from Home Stones, who have repudiated codes, perhaps fugitives who seek a sanctuary behind dark walls, possibly seekers of thrills, possibly mercenaries intent on bartering steel for gold, without compunction, perhaps those seeking approval for their pathological instincts that, suitably exercised, will be condoned, even celebrated.
It is hard to say.
- (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 26)