Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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Quote
17
43
Men would soon be up and about their duties, hurrying from one nothing to another, to compromises, to banal degradations, anxious lest they fail to be on time.
Men would soon be up and about their duties, hurrying from one nothing to another, to compromises, to banal degradations, anxious lest they fail to be on time.
- (Marauders of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #43)
Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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40
"Carry it," said the Forkbeard.
17
41
On another world, lit by the same star, in another place, dawn, too, drew near.
17
42
The distant light in the great cities, unknowing, soon to be occupied with the concerns of their days, piercing the haze of daily, customary poisons, first struck the heights of the lofty buildings, reflecting from the rectangular windows, like sheets of burnished copper reflecting the fire of the sun.
17
43
Men would soon be up and about their duties, hurrying from one nothing to another, to compromises, to banal degradations, anxious lest they fail to be on time.
17
44
They would not care for the blackened grass growing between the bricks; they would take no note of the spider's architecture, nor marvel at the flight of a wren darting to its nest among the smoke-blackened, carved stones.
17
45
There would be no time.
17
46
There would be no time for them, no time for seeing, or feeling, or touching, or loving or finding out what it might be to be alive.
"Carry it," said the Forkbeard.
On another world, lit by the same star, in another place, dawn, too, drew near.
The distant light in the great cities, unknowing, soon to be occupied with the concerns of their days, piercing the haze of daily, customary poisons, first struck the heights of the lofty buildings, reflecting from the rectangular windows, like sheets of burnished copper reflecting the fire of the sun.
Men would soon be up and about their duties, hurrying from one nothing to another, to compromises, to banal degradations, anxious lest they fail to be on time.
They would not care for the blackened grass growing between the bricks; they would take no note of the spider's architecture, nor marvel at the flight of a wren darting to its nest among the smoke-blackened, carved stones.
There would be no time.
There would be no time for them, no time for seeing, or feeling, or touching, or loving or finding out what it might be to be alive.
- (Marauders of Gor, Chapter 17)