Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 725 | "What is "gentlemanliness"?" he View more quotes about asked">asked, as Ellen, in her consternation, had used the English expression. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 722 | Too, even if we had once shared a Home Stone, you are now without the rights of the Home Stone, having been enslaved. |
| 17 | 723 | In addition, you are merely a female". |
| 17 | 724 | "It seems then," said Ellen, bitterly, "that I cannot expect gentlemanliness of you". |
| 17 | 725 | "What is "gentlemanliness"?" he asked, as Ellen, in her consternation, had used the English expression. |
| 17 | 726 | "There is no exact word for it in Gorean," said Ellen. |
| 17 | 727 | "I think I have heard the word," said the man. |
| 17 | 728 | "It seems to be a word for a male who subscribes to, and conforms to, codes of behavior requiring, among other things, substituting convention for nature, propriety for power, self-conquest for self-liberation, restraint for command, inaction and conformity for dominance and mastery, and, in short, a word for one who denies his biological birthright, his powers, pleasures and delights, for one who forgoes, or pretends to forgo, his manhood in order to do, or seem to do, what women pretend will please them. |
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Too, even if we had once shared a Home Stone, you are now without the rights of the Home Stone, having been enslaved.
In addition, you are merely a female".
"It seems then," said Ellen, bitterly, "that I cannot expect gentlemanliness of you".
"What is "gentlemanliness"?" he asked, as Ellen, in her consternation, had used the English expression.
"There is no exact word for it in Gorean," said Ellen.
"I think I have heard the word," said the man.
"It seems to be a word for a male who subscribes to, and conforms to, codes of behavior requiring, among other things, substituting convention for nature, propriety for power, self-conquest for self-liberation, restraint for command, inaction and conformity for dominance and mastery, and, in short, a word for one who denies his biological birthright, his powers, pleasures and delights, for one who forgoes, or pretends to forgo, his manhood in order to do, or seem to do, what women pretend will please them.
- (Prize of Gor)