Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 380 | They had not yet released the View more quotes about sleen">sleen. |
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 377 | Surely it is not always to be assumed that it is a mere inexplicable fact, a simple, brute given, something not to be inquired into, that things are as they now are. |
| 14 | 378 | Might there not be a reason why grass is green, and the sky blue? Might there not be a reason for the movement of the winds and the rotation of the night sky, and a reason, say, why men are as they are, and women as they are? I suddenly leapt to the beast whose neck I had broken. |
| 14 | 379 | I looked to the men on the hill. |
| 14 | 380 | They had not yet released the sleen. |
| 14 | 381 | I tore away a tusk, breaking it loose, from the side of the jaw of the dead animal. |
| 14 | 382 | Then, feverishly, with a will, I thrust it through its pelt and, pulling and tearing, using my hands, and teeth, as well, I began to remove its skin. |
| 14 | 383 | Perhaps they would think I had gone mad. |
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Surely it is not always to be assumed that it is a mere inexplicable fact, a simple, brute given, something not to be inquired into, that things are as they now are.
Might there not be a reason why grass is green, and the sky blue? Might there not be a reason for the movement of the winds and the rotation of the night sky, and a reason, say, why men are as they are, and women as they are? I suddenly leapt to the beast whose neck I had broken.
I looked to the men on the hill.
They had not yet released the sleen.
I tore away a tusk, breaking it loose, from the side of the jaw of the dead animal.
Then, feverishly, with a will, I thrust it through its pelt and, pulling and tearing, using my hands, and teeth, as well, I began to remove its skin.
Perhaps they would think I had gone mad.
- (Players of Gor)