Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 31 | 222 | I knew now why it was that the Golden Beetles were permitted to live in the Nest, why it was that priest-kings would not slay them, even though it might mean their own lives. |
| 31 | 223 | I wondered if the hairs of the Golden Beetle, heavy with the droplets of that narcotic exudate, offered adequate recompense to a priest-king for the ascetic millennia in which he might have pursued the mysteries of science, if they provided an acceptable culmination to one of those long, long lives devoted to the Nest, to its laws, to duty and the pursuit and manipulation of power. |
| 31 | 224 | priest-kings, I knew, had few pleasures, and now I guessed that foremost among them might be death. |
| 31 | 225 | Once, as though by some supreme effort of will, Sarm, who was a great priest-king, lifted his head from the golden hair and stared at me. |
| 31 | 226 | "Cabot," came from his translator. |
| 31 | 227 | "Die, priest-king," I said softly. |
| 31 | 228 | The last sound I heard from Sarm's translator was—"The pleasure". |
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I knew now why it was that the Golden Beetles were permitted to live in the Nest, why it was that priest-kings would not slay them, even though it might mean their own lives.
I wondered if the hairs of the Golden Beetle, heavy with the droplets of that narcotic exudate, offered adequate recompense to a priest-king for the ascetic millennia in which he might have pursued the mysteries of science, if they provided an acceptable culmination to one of those long, long lives devoted to the Nest, to its laws, to duty and the pursuit and manipulation of power.
priest-kings, I knew, had few pleasures, and now I guessed that foremost among them might be death.
Once, as though by some supreme effort of will, Sarm, who was a great priest-king, lifted his head from the golden hair and stared at me.
"Cabot," came from his translator.
"Die, priest-king," I said softly.
The last sound I heard from Sarm's translator was—"The pleasure".
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )