Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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Sentence #
Quote
1
767
Then he had added, "They are so similar".
1
768
It had been a joke.
1
769
But I did not think it was false.
1
770
Unfortunate though it might be, I doubted and, I think, realistically, that priest-kings, those large, golden creatures, so gentle and delicate seeming, so content to mind their own affairs, truly understood their enemy, the Kurii.
1
771
The persistence, the aggression, the fevers of the blood, the lust, the territoriality of such beasts, would be largely unintelligible to them.
1
772
There was little place in the placid, lucid categories of priest-kings for comprehending the bloods and madnesses of either men or Kurii.
1
773
They, Kurii and men, understood one another better, I suspected, than the priest-kings understood either.
Then he had added, "They are so similar".
It had been a joke.
But I did not think it was false.
Unfortunate though it might be, I doubted and, I think, realistically, that priest-kings, those large, golden creatures, so gentle and delicate seeming, so content to mind their own affairs, truly understood their enemy, the Kurii.
The persistence, the aggression, the fevers of the blood, the lust, the territoriality of such beasts, would be largely unintelligible to them.
There was little place in the placid, lucid categories of priest-kings for comprehending the bloods and madnesses of either men or Kurii.
They, Kurii and men, understood one another better, I suspected, than the priest-kings understood either.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )