Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 9 | "Why View more quotes about must">must I be processed?" I asked. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 6 | In our sense there is no distinction between a spoken and written language for the Priest-Kings, though there is an analogous distinction between linguistic patterns that are actually sensed and those which are potentially to be sensed, an example of the latter being the scents of a yet uncoiled scent-tape. |
| 13 | 7 | "You will not much care for the processing," said one of my guides. |
| 13 | 8 | "But it will be good for you," said the other. |
| 13 | 9 | "Why must I be processed?" I asked. |
| 13 | 10 | "To protect the Nest from contamination," said the first. |
| 13 | 11 | Scents, of course, will fade in time, but the specially prepared synthetic products of the Priest-Kings can last for thousands of years and, in the long run, will surely outlast the fading print of human books, the disintegrating celluloid of our films, perhaps even the carved, weathering stones so imperishably attesting the incomparable glories of our numerous kings, conquerors and potentates. |
| 13 | 12 | Scent-dots, incidentally, are arranged in rows constituting a geometrical square, and are read beginning with the top row from left to right, then right to left, and then left to right and so on again. |
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In our sense there is no distinction between a spoken and written language for the Priest-Kings, though there is an analogous distinction between linguistic patterns that are actually sensed and those which are potentially to be sensed, an example of the latter being the scents of a yet uncoiled scent-tape.
"You will not much care for the processing," said one of my guides.
"But it will be good for you," said the other.
"Why must I be processed?" I asked.
"To protect the Nest from contamination," said the first.
Scents, of course, will fade in time, but the specially prepared synthetic products of the Priest-Kings can last for thousands of years and, in the long run, will surely outlast the fading print of human books, the disintegrating celluloid of our films, perhaps even the carved, weathering stones so imperishably attesting the incomparable glories of our numerous kings, conquerors and potentates.
Scent-dots, incidentally, are arranged in rows constituting a geometrical square, and are read beginning with the top row from left to right, then right to left, and then left to right and so on again.
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