Tars Tarkas: We cannot fight empty air; I would almost sooner return and face foes into whose flesh I may feel my blade bite and know that I am selling my carcass dearly before I go down to that eternal oblivion which is evidently the fairest and most…
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After ten years of waiting on Earth, John Carter is drawn back to Mars, but finds himself in the Valley Dor, the paradise to which Martians make their final pilgrimage. With his old friend Tars Tarkas he discovers that the heaven of Barsoom's religion hides something far darker, and sets out to expose it while searching for his lost princess, Dejah Thoris. The second Barsoom novel mixes sword-fighting adventure with a sharp attack on blind faith.
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John Carter: Only thus may we carry the truth to those without, and though the likelihood of our narrative being given credence is, I grant you, remote, so wedded are mortals to their stupid infatuation for impossible superstitions, we should be craven…
My sword, my body, my life, my soul are yours to do with as you wish. Until death and after death I look to you alone for authority for my every act. Be you right or wrong, your word shall be my only truth. Whoso raises his hand against you must answer to my…
In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions—and one of us was of a different world.
Tars Tarkas: If you fail, John Carter… know that the cruel and heartless Thark, to whom you taught the meaning of friendship, will come out to die beside you.
Xodar: The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.