Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 89 | Perhaps men did not much laugh in the tunnels of the priest-kings and it was not accustomed to this human practice. |
| 10 | 90 | Or perhaps a priest-king simply could not understand the notion of amusement, it being perhaps genetically removed from his comprehension. |
| 10 | 91 | Yet I said to myself the priest-kings are intelligent and I found it difficult to believe there could exist an intelligent race without humor. |
| 10 | 92 | "I think I understand," said the priest-king. |
| 10 | 93 | "It is like shaking and curling your antennae?" "Perhaps," I said, now more puzzled than the priest-king. |
| 10 | 94 | "How stupid I am," said the priest-king. |
| 10 | 95 | And then to my amazement the creature, resting back on its posterior appendages, began to shake, beginning at its abdomen and continuing upward through its trunk to its thorax and head and at last its antennae began to tremble and, curling, they wrapped about one another. |
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Perhaps men did not much laugh in the tunnels of the priest-kings and it was not accustomed to this human practice.
Or perhaps a priest-king simply could not understand the notion of amusement, it being perhaps genetically removed from his comprehension.
Yet I said to myself the priest-kings are intelligent and I found it difficult to believe there could exist an intelligent race without humor.
"I think I understand," said the priest-king.
"It is like shaking and curling your antennae?" "Perhaps," I said, now more puzzled than the priest-king.
"How stupid I am," said the priest-king.
And then to my amazement the creature, resting back on its posterior appendages, began to shake, beginning at its abdomen and continuing upward through its trunk to its thorax and head and at last its antennae began to tremble and, curling, they wrapped about one another.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )