Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 20 | 308 | The contrast of the unbreakable, merciless, interwoven metallic links, with their tasteful View more quotes about shackles">shackles, or cuffs and rings, with the confined, helpless softness of the slave is aesthetically interesting, providing, as it does, a lovely study in surfaces, textures and materials; too, of course, it is only fair to note that the meshed linkage of the chain, with its weight and harshness, with its metallic simplicity and solidity, with its uncompromising, unyielding, inescapable efficiency, merciless and unbreakable, contrasts with, calls attention to, and accentuates remarkably the vulnerability and softness, in all its beauty and curves, of its captive. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 20 | 305 | The women tonight, for example, were chained largely for purposes of beauty. |
| 20 | 306 | Chains, as is well known, often enhance, and incredibly so, the beauty of a female. |
| 20 | 307 | This matter is doubtless partly aesthetic and partly emotional and intellectual. |
| 20 | 308 | The contrast of the unbreakable, merciless, interwoven metallic links, with their tasteful shackles, or cuffs and rings, with the confined, helpless softness of the slave is aesthetically interesting, providing, as it does, a lovely study in surfaces, textures and materials; too, of course, it is only fair to note that the meshed linkage of the chain, with its weight and harshness, with its metallic simplicity and solidity, with its uncompromising, unyielding, inescapable efficiency, merciless and unbreakable, contrasts with, calls attention to, and accentuates remarkably the vulnerability and softness, in all its beauty and curves, of its captive. |
| 20 | 309 | But the greatest beauty of the chain, like that of the brand and collar, doubtless lies in the realm of the intellect and emotions, in its meaning, and how it makes the girl feel. |
| 20 | 310 | The brand and collar, though mighty in their significance, offer little actual impediment to a girl's action, unless, perhaps, she desires to pass alone and unchallenged through a city gate. |
| 20 | 311 | Chains, on the other hand, permit her only certain latitudes of movement or keep her fixed in a given place. |
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The women tonight, for example, were chained largely for purposes of beauty.
Chains, as is well known, often enhance, and incredibly so, the beauty of a female.
This matter is doubtless partly aesthetic and partly emotional and intellectual.
The contrast of the unbreakable, merciless, interwoven metallic links, with their tasteful shackles, or cuffs and rings, with the confined, helpless softness of the slave is aesthetically interesting, providing, as it does, a lovely study in surfaces, textures and materials; too, of course, it is only fair to note that the meshed linkage of the chain, with its weight and harshness, with its metallic simplicity and solidity, with its uncompromising, unyielding, inescapable efficiency, merciless and unbreakable, contrasts with, calls attention to, and accentuates remarkably the vulnerability and softness, in all its beauty and curves, of its captive.
But the greatest beauty of the chain, like that of the brand and collar, doubtless lies in the realm of the intellect and emotions, in its meaning, and how it makes the girl feel.
The brand and collar, though mighty in their significance, offer little actual impediment to a girl's action, unless, perhaps, she desires to pass alone and unchallenged through a city gate.
Chains, on the other hand, permit her only certain latitudes of movement or keep her fixed in a given place.
- (Guardsman of Gor)