Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 29 | A tarnsman knows that they may turn upon him without warning. |
| 15 | 30 | Yet the tarnsman chooses no other life. |
| 15 | 31 | He continues to mount the birds, to climb to their saddle with a heart filled with joy, to draw upon the one-strap and, with a cry of exultation, to urge the monster aloft. |
| 15 | 32 | More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free. |
| 15 | 33 | Let it be said simply I was pleased, for I was on tarnback again. |
| 15 | 34 | From beneath the bird there came a long, shivering moan, a helpless, uncontrolled sound from the golden prey seized in its talons. |
| 15 | 35 | I cursed myself for a thoughtless fool, for in the exhilaration of the flight, incomprehensible though it seems to me now, I had forgotten the Tatrix. |
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A tarnsman knows that they may turn upon him without warning.
Yet the tarnsman chooses no other life.
He continues to mount the birds, to climb to their saddle with a heart filled with joy, to draw upon the one-strap and, with a cry of exultation, to urge the monster aloft.
More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free.
Let it be said simply I was pleased, for I was on tarnback again.
From beneath the bird there came a long, shivering moan, a helpless, uncontrolled sound from the golden prey seized in its talons.
I cursed myself for a thoughtless fool, for in the exhilaration of the flight, incomprehensible though it seems to me now, I had forgotten the Tatrix.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )