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| 11 | 1387 | Yet I could not have been View more quotes about brought">brought here except in virtue of an obviously advanced technology. |
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| 11 | 1384 | I had been brought here by a technology which currently, at least in certain dimensions, exceeded that of my old world. |
| 11 | 1385 | And yet here many men, if not most, seemed unclear as to its nature, if not completely ignorant of its very existence. |
| 11 | 1386 | How astonishingly paradoxical seemed my situation! Here on this world, where men seemed so proud, so untamed, so unbroken, so free, so mighty, so hot-blooded, on this world seemingly so primitive, so splendid and barbaric, on this world of leather, and silk and iron, not of plastics and synthetic fibers, of heat and love, not of tepidity and hypocrisy, of ardor and skill, not of boredom and gadgetry, on this world where men had mastered monsters and seemed ready, at a word, to adjudicate disputes with edged weapons, I knelt before a dais, naked and collared, as a barbarian slave girl. |
| 11 | 1387 | Yet I could not have been brought here except in virtue of an obviously advanced technology. |
| 11 | 1388 | It was almost as though I had been somehow magically flung into the past, into a world quite different from my own, a world whose ways I must speedily learn and in which I must learn, if I would survive, to be obedient and pleasing. |
| 11 | 1389 | But there was no magic here, no enchanted rings or sorcerer's wands. |
| 11 | 1390 | Things here were quite real, as real as the stone flagging beneath my knees, as real as the mark in my left thigh. |