Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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8
39
I had examined the entire room as well as I could.
8
40
It might be possible, of course, to use some type of penetrating beam which if subtly enough adjusted might permit the reception of signals through walls and then relay these to a distant screen, but I doubted that such a device, though perhaps within the capacities of the priest-kings, would be used in the relatively trivial domestic surveillance of these chambers.
8
41
Then my eye saw, directly in the center of the ceiling, another energy bulb, like those in the walls, only the bulb was not lit.
8
42
That was a mistake on the priest-kings' part.
8
43
But of course the device could be in any of the bulbs.
8
44
Perhaps one of the almost inexhaustible energy bulbs, which can burn for years, had as a simple matter of fact at last burned out.
8
45
I leaped to the center of the stone platform.
I had examined the entire room as well as I could.
It might be possible, of course, to use some type of penetrating beam which if subtly enough adjusted might permit the reception of signals through walls and then relay these to a distant screen, but I doubted that such a device, though perhaps within the capacities of the priest-kings, would be used in the relatively trivial domestic surveillance of these chambers.
Then my eye saw, directly in the center of the ceiling, another energy bulb, like those in the walls, only the bulb was not lit.
That was a mistake on the priest-kings' part.
But of course the device could be in any of the bulbs.
Perhaps one of the almost inexhaustible energy bulbs, which can burn for years, had as a simple matter of fact at last burned out.
I leaped to the center of the stone platform.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )