Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 67 | 137 | View more quotes about similarly">Similarly, animals who happened to find the taste disagreeable, say, in the case of humans, offensively bitter, would survive. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 67 | 134 | Cabot, curious, did wipe some dirt and leaves from the meat, which smelled, and put it to his tongue. |
| 67 | 135 | After a time such meat, as it spoils, will form cadaverine alkaloids, which are potently toxic. |
| 67 | 136 | Animals who might, long ago, have found the taste of such things agreeable would fail to replicate their genes. |
| 67 | 137 | Similarly, animals who happened to find the taste disagreeable, say, in the case of humans, offensively bitter, would survive. |
| 67 | 138 | It is not an inexplicable happenstance that foods which nourish beasts tend to have an agreeable taste to them and those unlikely to nourish them tend to have a disagreeable taste to them. |
| 67 | 139 | The tastes may originally have been randomly allotted in a population, distributed with indifference, but the consequences of these tastes would weigh quite differently in the scales of life and death. |
| 67 | 140 | A trail of misery and death in one case, and of health and vitality in another, lies at the roots, here and elsewhere, of what might seem to be a thousand matters of coincidence, but are no more coincidences, or inexplicable accidents, than the scimitarlike sharpness of the larl's fangs, or the erratic, bounding fleetness of the tabuk. |
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Cabot, curious, did wipe some dirt and leaves from the meat, which smelled, and put it to his tongue.
After a time such meat, as it spoils, will form cadaverine alkaloids, which are potently toxic.
Animals who might, long ago, have found the taste of such things agreeable would fail to replicate their genes.
Similarly, animals who happened to find the taste disagreeable, say, in the case of humans, offensively bitter, would survive.
It is not an inexplicable happenstance that foods which nourish beasts tend to have an agreeable taste to them and those unlikely to nourish them tend to have a disagreeable taste to them.
The tastes may originally have been randomly allotted in a population, distributed with indifference, but the consequences of these tastes would weigh quite differently in the scales of life and death.
A trail of misery and death in one case, and of health and vitality in another, lies at the roots, here and elsewhere, of what might seem to be a thousand matters of coincidence, but are no more coincidences, or inexplicable accidents, than the scimitarlike sharpness of the larl's fangs, or the erratic, bounding fleetness of the tabuk.
- (Kur of Gor)