| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 476 | Was the coinage of View more quotes about beautiful">beautiful women so plentiful here, in this city of raiders and warriors, I wondered, that even specimens such as she, such gems as she, who might be the centerpiece of a collection elsewhere, who might be brought to the block at the climax of an auction, labored here in the darknesses beneath the city as though she might be the lowest of slaves, subservient in a gloomy labyrinth supervised by a monster. |
| 13 | 477 | But she could not be the lowest of slaves for I was surely lower than she. |
| 13 | 478 | My ears were even pierced, which was, it seemed, a matter of great moment on this world. |
| 13 | 479 | Too, I need not pity her too much, nor with fear and loathing bemoan the uniqueness of her fate, for the monster to whom she addressed the title "Master" was none other than that to which my own service and deference were due. |
| 13 | 480 | I began, bent over, to tremble in terror. |
| 13 | 481 | What manner of place was this? How could it be that my hands were tied behind my back, how could it be that I could not straighten up, that my head was held down, how could it be that there was a collar on my neck! How far away were the malls! But, yet, too, how vanished here were the confusions, the anomie, the pretenses, the trivialities, the meaninglessnesses, the nonrealities of my former life! In this very real place, on this far world, I found myself, for the first time in my life, very real. |
| 13 | 482 | I was now something quite real. |