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| 11 | 1034 | But what distressed me now was the View more quotes about sense">sense I gathered of the response of the men to the suggestion that my ears be pierced. |
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| 11 | 1031 | To be sure, I was so poor a woman of Earth that I did not mind being desirable and beautiful. |
| 11 | 1032 | Indeed, I was eager to be such that I would bring a high price on a slave block. |
| 11 | 1033 | Indeed, as I am a slave, even on Earth I had wanted to be such, desirable and beautiful, and such as would bring a good price from lustful, bidding masters. |
| 11 | 1034 | But what distressed me now was the sense I gathered of the response of the men to the suggestion that my ears be pierced. |
| 11 | 1035 | I realized now, only too clearly, that this primitive, barbaric, homely little detail, seemingly so tiny in itself, the piercing of the ears, making possible the affixing of certain forms of ornaments, seemed, for some reason, quite momentous to them. |
| 11 | 1036 | I gathered that once my ears were pierced there would then be, at least from their point of view, something quite different about me. |
| 11 | 1037 | "Come here," said the man in the chair. |