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| 14 | 1567 | For View more quotes about example">example, asking a question outright, particularly of a stranger, can involve great risks. |
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| 14 | 1564 | One must be here, or rather at a place close by, at a certain time to learn what I wanted to know, if one could know it. |
| 14 | 1565 | The information I wanted, of course, like that which had been denied to me about the reason for my being in the pits, had been denied me. |
| 14 | 1566 | It was a simple enough bit of information, but a slave girl must be extremely careful about certain things. |
| 14 | 1567 | For example, asking a question outright, particularly of a stranger, can involve great risks. |
| 14 | 1568 | The stranger will presumably assume that you are supposed to be denied the information or you would have already obtained it from your master or keeper. |
| 14 | 1569 | To be sure, one may, kneeling, innocently request certain sorts of information, such as the directions to a shop or given street, or such, but to ask about something which is either sensitive or presumed to be generally known can be frowned upon. |
| 14 | 1570 | For example, a slave would not request information as to the departure or arrival times of sky caravans and such; and she would not, presumably, ask something of the simplicity of that which I wished to know. |