Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 192 | "Hold, Priest-King!" I cried. |
| 27 | 193 | Never before had a human set foot in this chamber and I knew not if I had committed sacrilege but I did not care, for my friend was in danger. |
| 27 | 194 | Horror coursed through the ranks of the assembled Priest-Kings and their antennae waved wildly and their golden frames shook with rage, and hundreds of them must have simultaneously turned on their translators for I heard almost immediately from everywhere before me the contrastingly calm translation of their threats and protests. |
| 27 | 195 | Among the words I heard were "He must die," "Kill him," "death to the Mul". |
| 27 | 196 | I almost had to smile in spite of myself for the unmoved, unemotional emissions of the translators seemed so much at odds with the visible agitation of the Priest-Kings and the dire import of their messages. |
| 27 | 197 | But then, from the Mother herself, behind me, I sensed once again the transmission of negation, and I heard on the translators that faced me, the simple expression "No". |
| 27 | 198 | It was not their message, but that of she who lay brown and wrinkled behind me. |
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"Hold, Priest-King!" I cried.
Never before had a human set foot in this chamber and I knew not if I had committed sacrilege but I did not care, for my friend was in danger.
Horror coursed through the ranks of the assembled Priest-Kings and their antennae waved wildly and their golden frames shook with rage, and hundreds of them must have simultaneously turned on their translators for I heard almost immediately from everywhere before me the contrastingly calm translation of their threats and protests.
Among the words I heard were "He must die," "Kill him," "death to the Mul".
I almost had to smile in spite of myself for the unmoved, unemotional emissions of the translators seemed so much at odds with the visible agitation of the Priest-Kings and the dire import of their messages.
But then, from the Mother herself, behind me, I sensed once again the transmission of negation, and I heard on the translators that faced me, the simple expression "No".
It was not their message, but that of she who lay brown and wrinkled behind me.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )