Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 92 | Who View more quotes about knows">knows what things, visible or invisible, might be abroad during that terrible time? In many Gorean cities, accordingly, the Twelfth Passage Hand, the five days preceding the Waiting Hand, that time to which few Goreans look forward with eagerness, is carnival. |
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 89 | These festivities, of course, are in marked contrast to the solemnities and abstinences of the Waiting Hand. |
| 1 | 90 | The Waiting Hand is a time, in general, of misery, silence and fasting. |
| 1 | 91 | It is also, for many Goreans, particularly those of the lower castes, a time of uneasiness, a time of trepidation and apprehension. |
| 1 | 92 | Who knows what things, visible or invisible, might be abroad during that terrible time? In many Gorean cities, accordingly, the Twelfth Passage Hand, the five days preceding the Waiting Hand, that time to which few Goreans look forward with eagerness, is carnival. |
| 1 | 93 | The fact that it was now only two days to the Twelfth Passage Hand, explained the presence of the unusual number of theatrical and carnival troupes now in the city. |
| 1 | 94 | Such troupes, incidentally, must petition for the right to perform within a city. |
| 1 | 95 | Usually a sample performance, or a part of a performance, is required, staged before the high council, or a committee delegated by such a council. |
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These festivities, of course, are in marked contrast to the solemnities and abstinences of the Waiting Hand.
The Waiting Hand is a time, in general, of misery, silence and fasting.
It is also, for many Goreans, particularly those of the lower castes, a time of uneasiness, a time of trepidation and apprehension.
Who knows what things, visible or invisible, might be abroad during that terrible time? In many Gorean cities, accordingly, the Twelfth Passage Hand, the five days preceding the Waiting Hand, that time to which few Goreans look forward with eagerness, is carnival.
The fact that it was now only two days to the Twelfth Passage Hand, explained the presence of the unusual number of theatrical and carnival troupes now in the city.
Such troupes, incidentally, must petition for the right to perform within a city.
Usually a sample performance, or a part of a performance, is required, staged before the high council, or a committee delegated by such a council.
- (Players of Gor)