Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 36 | 499 | View more quotes about slaves">Slaves, unless formerly of high caste, are often illiterate. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 36 | 496 | Some Warriors take pride in their inability to read, regarding that skill as unworthy of them, as being more appropriate to record keepers, tradesmen, clerks, and such, and some who can read take pains to conceal the fact. |
| 36 | 497 | Swords, not words, rule cities, it is said. |
| 36 | 498 | And some Goreans feel that reading is appropriate only for the less successful, those too poor to have their reading done for them, their letters written for them, and such. |
| 36 | 499 | Slaves, unless formerly of high caste, are often illiterate. |
| 36 | 500 | And barbarian slaves are seldom taught to read. |
| 36 | 501 | This produces the anomaly that many barbarian slaves, who are generally of high intelligence, will be literate in one or more of the barbarian languages, but illiterate in Gorean. |
| 36 | 502 | Indeed, they are often kept so, deliberately, that they may be all the more helpless, as slaves, and know themselves all the better as mere slaves. |
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Some Warriors take pride in their inability to read, regarding that skill as unworthy of them, as being more appropriate to record keepers, tradesmen, clerks, and such, and some who can read take pains to conceal the fact.
Swords, not words, rule cities, it is said.
And some Goreans feel that reading is appropriate only for the less successful, those too poor to have their reading done for them, their letters written for them, and such.
Slaves, unless formerly of high caste, are often illiterate.
And barbarian slaves are seldom taught to read.
This produces the anomaly that many barbarian slaves, who are generally of high intelligence, will be literate in one or more of the barbarian languages, but illiterate in Gorean.
Indeed, they are often kept so, deliberately, that they may be all the more helpless, as slaves, and know themselves all the better as mere slaves.
- (Mariners of Gor)