Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 20 | 94 | View more quotes about ellen">Ellen wondered if the coffle had been ordered in terms of beauty, at least as some men saw these things. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 20 | 91 | Buyers tend to approve of this arrangement, for one can then suppose that one has had the best buy, regardless of the girl's position on the chain. |
| 20 | 92 | To be sure, what all these approaches seem to overlook, though it is probably understood well enough by all, is that much which is very personal, even "chemical," so to speak, is involved in these matters. |
| 20 | 93 | A slave who is nothing to one man may be exactly the slave that another man must have at any price, and a stunning beauty, perhaps a flower from a defeated Ubar's pleasure garden, perhaps even his preferred slave, these women vended in a war camp, might not appeal to a given common soldier, and such. |
| 20 | 94 | Ellen wondered if the coffle had been ordered in terms of beauty, at least as some men saw these things. |
| 20 | 95 | If so, she was surely prized. |
| 20 | 96 | This both flattered her, and frightened her. |
| 20 | 97 | But then, again, the coffle might have been arranged in no particular order, or in an order in which beauty, or estimates of beauty, were irrelevant, an order of acquisition, or an order based on the night's chaining, or such. |
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Buyers tend to approve of this arrangement, for one can then suppose that one has had the best buy, regardless of the girl's position on the chain.
To be sure, what all these approaches seem to overlook, though it is probably understood well enough by all, is that much which is very personal, even "chemical," so to speak, is involved in these matters.
A slave who is nothing to one man may be exactly the slave that another man must have at any price, and a stunning beauty, perhaps a flower from a defeated Ubar's pleasure garden, perhaps even his preferred slave, these women vended in a war camp, might not appeal to a given common soldier, and such.
Ellen wondered if the coffle had been ordered in terms of beauty, at least as some men saw these things.
If so, she was surely prized.
This both flattered her, and frightened her.
But then, again, the coffle might have been arranged in no particular order, or in an order in which beauty, or estimates of beauty, were irrelevant, an order of acquisition, or an order based on the night's chaining, or such.
- (Prize of Gor)