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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 138 I laughed.
1 139 But I had recollected my honor.
1 140 But little good had it done me.
1 141 Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarries of Tyros? I sat in the darkness and wondered on honor, and courage.
1 142 If they were shams, I thought them most precious shams.
1 143 How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground.
1 144 But I had no right to such thoughts, for I had surrendered my honor, my courage, in the delta of the Vosk.
I laughed. But I had recollected my honor. But little good had it done me. Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarries of Tyros? I sat in the darkness and wondered on honor, and courage. If they were shams, I thought them most precious shams. How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground. But I had no right to such thoughts, for I had surrendered my honor, my courage, in the delta of the Vosk. - (Marauders of Gor, Chapter )