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"This is the Hall of Processing," said one of them. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 13, Sentence #2)

The two Priest-Kings had watched this small concourse with some interest, but now the voice of Sarm's translator was heard: "It is growing late," it said, "let the Matok be processed". "Follow me," said the first man and turned, and I followed him, leaving the room, the second man falling into stride beside me. The Slime Worm I followed Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta through several rooms and down a long corridor. "This is the Hall of Processing," said one of them. We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a Priest-King, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots. If the scent-dots were themselves not scented one might be tempted to think of them as graphemes in the language of the Priest-Kings, but since they themselves are scented they are best construed as analogous to uttered phonemes or phoneme combinations, direct expressions of the oral syllabary of the Priest-Kings. When surrounded by scent-dots one might suppose the Priest-King to be subjected to a cacophony of stimulation, much as we might be if environed by dozens of blaring radios and television sets, but this is apparently not the case; the better analogy would seem to be our experience of walking down a quiet city street surrounded by printed signs which we might notice but to which we do not pay much attention. - (Priest-Kings of Gor)