Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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"But for what end, to what purpose?" I demanded.
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"Each perhaps for a different end, for each perhaps a different purpose," he said.
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225
My father then spoke to me of the world on which I found myself.
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226
He said, from what he could learn from the Initiates, who claimed to serve as the intermediaries of Priest-Kings to men, that the planet gor had originally been a satellite of a distant sun, in one of the fantastically remote Blue Galaxies.
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It was moved by the science of the Priest-Kings several times in its history, seeking again and again a new star.
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I regarded this story as improbable, at least in part, for several reasons, primarily having to do with the sheer spatial improbabilities of such a migration, which, even at a speed approximating light, would have taken billions of years.
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Moreover, in moving through space, without a sun for photosynthesis and warmth, all life would surely have been destroyed.
"But for what end, to what purpose?" I demanded.
"Each perhaps for a different end, for each perhaps a different purpose," he said.
My father then spoke to me of the world on which I found myself.
He said, from what he could learn from the Initiates, who claimed to serve as the intermediaries of Priest-Kings to men, that the planet gor had originally been a satellite of a distant sun, in one of the fantastically remote Blue Galaxies.
It was moved by the science of the Priest-Kings several times in its history, seeking again and again a new star.
I regarded this story as improbable, at least in part, for several reasons, primarily having to do with the sheer spatial improbabilities of such a migration, which, even at a speed approximating light, would have taken billions of years.
Moreover, in moving through space, without a sun for photosynthesis and warmth, all life would surely have been destroyed.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter )