Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
20
6
I can see the blazing sun this July afternoon, and know that behind it, counterpoised with my native planet, lies another world.
20
7
And I wonder if on that world a girl, now a woman, thinks of me, and perhaps, too, of the secrets I have told her lie behind her sun, Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone.
20
8
My destiny had been accomplished.
20
9
I had served the priest-kings.
20
10
The shape of a world had been altered, the rivers of a planet's history turned to new channels.
20
11
Then, no longer needed, I was discarded.
20
12
Perhaps the priest-kings, whoever or whatever they might be, reasoned that such a man was dangerous, that such a man might in time raise his own banner of dominion; perhaps they realized that I, of all on Gor, did not revere them, would not turn and bow my head in the direction of the Sardar Mountains; perhaps they envied me the flame of my love for Talena; perhaps, in the cold recesses of the Sardar Mountains, their intelligences could not accept that this vulnerable, perishable creature was more blessed than they, in their wisdom and their power.
I can see the blazing sun this July afternoon, and know that behind it, counterpoised with my native planet, lies another world.
And I wonder if on that world a girl, now a woman, thinks of me, and perhaps, too, of the secrets I have told her lie behind her sun, Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone.
My destiny had been accomplished.
I had served the priest-kings.
The shape of a world had been altered, the rivers of a planet's history turned to new channels.
Then, no longer needed, I was discarded.
Perhaps the priest-kings, whoever or whatever they might be, reasoned that such a man was dangerous, that such a man might in time raise his own banner of dominion; perhaps they realized that I, of all on Gor, did not revere them, would not turn and bow my head in the direction of the Sardar Mountains; perhaps they envied me the flame of my love for Talena; perhaps, in the cold recesses of the Sardar Mountains, their intelligences could not accept that this vulnerable, perishable creature was more blessed than they, in their wisdom and their power.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter )