Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 95 | If this fellow had a weakness in kaissa it was perhaps a tendency to occasionally indulge in curious or even reckless experimentation. |
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 92 | He was the sort of fellow who did not merely play the game but contributed to it. |
| 12 | 93 | Further, sometimes to my irritation, he often, too often, in my opinion, seemed to produce these things with an apparent lack of effort, with an almost insolent ease, with an almost arrogant nonchalance. |
| 12 | 94 | It is one thing to be beaten by someone; it is another thing to have it done roundly, you sweating and fuming, while the other fellow, as far as you can tell, is spending most of his time, except for an occasional instant spent sizing up the board and moving, in considering the ambient trivia of the camp or the shapes and motions of passing clouds. |
| 12 | 95 | If this fellow had a weakness in kaissa it was perhaps a tendency to occasionally indulge in curious or even reckless experimentation. |
| 12 | 96 | Too, I was convinced he might occasionally let his attention wander just a bit too much, perhaps confident of his ability to overcome inadvertencies, or perhaps because of a tendency to underestimate opponents. |
| 12 | 97 | Too, he had an interest in the psychology of the game. |
| 12 | 98 | Once he had put a Ubara en prise in a game with me. |
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He was the sort of fellow who did not merely play the game but contributed to it.
Further, sometimes to my irritation, he often, too often, in my opinion, seemed to produce these things with an apparent lack of effort, with an almost insolent ease, with an almost arrogant nonchalance.
It is one thing to be beaten by someone; it is another thing to have it done roundly, you sweating and fuming, while the other fellow, as far as you can tell, is spending most of his time, except for an occasional instant spent sizing up the board and moving, in considering the ambient trivia of the camp or the shapes and motions of passing clouds.
If this fellow had a weakness in kaissa it was perhaps a tendency to occasionally indulge in curious or even reckless experimentation.
Too, I was convinced he might occasionally let his attention wander just a bit too much, perhaps confident of his ability to overcome inadvertencies, or perhaps because of a tendency to underestimate opponents.
Too, he had an interest in the psychology of the game.
Once he had put a Ubara en prise in a game with me.
- (Players of Gor, Chapter 12)