Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 551 | The dissent gesture, on the other View more quotes about hand">hand, shows much greater variety. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 548 | It watched us. |
| 1 | 549 | The smaller of the two creatures then busied itself with the device on the table. |
| 1 | 550 | Lowering the head is an almost universal assent gesture, indicating submission to, or agreement with, the other. |
| 1 | 551 | The dissent gesture, on the other hand, shows much greater variety. |
| 1 | 552 | Shaking the head sideways, among rational creatures, may be taken as a negation of assent. |
| 1 | 553 | Other forms of the nonassent gesture can be turning the head away from the other, sometimes with a gesture of the lips, indicating distaste, or even of ejecting an unwanted substance from the mouth, backing away, or lifting the head and extending the neck, sometimes baring the fangs and tensing the body, as in a variation on the bristling response. |
| 1 | 554 | "To be sure," I said, "it is extremely difficult for them to speak Gorean, or another human language". |
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It watched us.
The smaller of the two creatures then busied itself with the device on the table.
Lowering the head is an almost universal assent gesture, indicating submission to, or agreement with, the other.
The dissent gesture, on the other hand, shows much greater variety.
Shaking the head sideways, among rational creatures, may be taken as a negation of assent.
Other forms of the nonassent gesture can be turning the head away from the other, sometimes with a gesture of the lips, indicating distaste, or even of ejecting an unwanted substance from the mouth, backing away, or lifting the head and extending the neck, sometimes baring the fangs and tensing the body, as in a variation on the bristling response.
"To be sure," I said, "it is extremely difficult for them to speak Gorean, or another human language".
- (Savages of Gor)