Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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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.
1
774
As long as the Kurii remained behind the fifth ring, that determined by the orbit of the planet called on Earth Jupiter, on Gor, Hersius, after a legendary hero of Ar, the priest-kings were little concerned with them.
1
775
They had no objection if such ravening wolves prowled their fences, and scratched at their very gates.
1
776
"They, like men, are an interesting life form," once had said Misk to me.
1
777
But now the Kurii worlds, sensing the weakness of the Sardar, following the Nest War, damages that had destroyed their basic power source and had split the very Nest open to the sky, prowled more closely.
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.
As long as the Kurii remained behind the fifth ring, that determined by the orbit of the planet called on Earth Jupiter, on Gor, Hersius, after a legendary hero of Ar, the priest-kings were little concerned with them.
They had no objection if such ravening wolves prowled their fences, and scratched at their very gates.
"They, like men, are an interesting life form," once had said Misk to me.
But now the Kurii worlds, sensing the weakness of the Sardar, following the Nest War, damages that had destroyed their basic power source and had split the very Nest open to the sky, prowled more closely.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )