From that point whether or not it survives will depend like so many other things in this barbaric world I have come to love—on the inscrutable will of the Priest-Kings.
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They have cursed me and my city.
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They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna.
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They have destroyed a city, and in a sense they have restored a city.
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What manner of things they are I know not, but I am determined to learn.
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Many have entered the mountains and so many must have learned the secret of the Priest-Kings, though none has returned to tell it.
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But let me now speak of Tharna.
From that point whether or not it survives will depend like so many other things in this barbaric world I have come to love—on the inscrutable will of the Priest-Kings.
They have cursed me and my city.
They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna.
They have destroyed a city, and in a sense they have restored a city.
What manner of things they are I know not, but I am determined to learn.
Many have entered the mountains and so many must have learned the secret of the Priest-Kings, though none has returned to tell it.
But let me now speak of Tharna.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )