Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 27 | 796 | And View more quotes about doubtless">doubtless it is not of great importance. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 27 | 793 | Others seem to feel that the basic meaning is that of a form of secure and revelatory binding, in which the slave is helplessly and delightfully displayed, and that the exhibitory usages of the expression are secondary, being founded upon, and derivative from, this more basic, original usage. |
| 27 | 794 | On the other hand, as most suppose, and as seems most plausible to the slave, these usages may very well have been developed independently, both based on the obvious consequences on the slave's body of a certain form of handling or manner of binding. |
| 27 | 795 | There seems to be some division among Goreans on this matter. |
| 27 | 796 | And doubtless it is not of great importance. |
| 27 | 797 | Please forgive this excursion into speculative etymology. |
| 27 | 798 | Ellen finds such matters fascinating, perhaps in part because she has been so handled and so roped. |
| 27 | 799 | What is perfectly clear and indisputable is that in Gorean 'slave bow', putting aside considerations of origin, derivation and chronology, and such, has the basic meaning of the forming of the slave's body into a bow, and two application meanings, one pertaining to a modality of exhibition and the other to a modality of binding. |
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Others seem to feel that the basic meaning is that of a form of secure and revelatory binding, in which the slave is helplessly and delightfully displayed, and that the exhibitory usages of the expression are secondary, being founded upon, and derivative from, this more basic, original usage.
On the other hand, as most suppose, and as seems most plausible to the slave, these usages may very well have been developed independently, both based on the obvious consequences on the slave's body of a certain form of handling or manner of binding.
There seems to be some division among Goreans on this matter.
And doubtless it is not of great importance.
Please forgive this excursion into speculative etymology.
Ellen finds such matters fascinating, perhaps in part because she has been so handled and so roped.
What is perfectly clear and indisputable is that in Gorean 'slave bow', putting aside considerations of origin, derivation and chronology, and such, has the basic meaning of the forming of the slave's body into a bow, and two application meanings, one pertaining to a modality of exhibition and the other to a modality of binding.
- (Prize of Gor)