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| 17 | 15 | View more quotes about later">Later men come for gossiping and the exchange of news. |
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| 17 | 12 | In the morning the peasants come in from the countryside and spread out their blankets, and arrange their baskets of produce. |
| 17 | 13 | Much shopping is done in the early morning. |
| 17 | 14 | Later the stalls and shops around the square roll back their screens and shutters and open for business. |
| 17 | 15 | Later men come for gossiping and the exchange of news. |
| 17 | 16 | Some visit the temples, paying coins, buying incense and burning it, petitioning Priest-Kings for favors, such things as better crops and success in ventures, such things as luck for themselves and calamities for their enemies. |
| 17 | 17 | Gorean petitions to the Priest-Kings seem on the whole to be very specific, and very practical. |
| 17 | 18 | Most Goreans seem skeptical of an afterlife, or, at least, seem content to wait and see. |