Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 36 | 501 | This produces the anomaly that many View more quotes about barbarian">barbarian slaves, who are generally of high intelligence, will be literate in one or more of the barbarian languages, but illiterate in Gorean. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 36 | 503 | Needless to say, all members of my caste, even from childhood, are taught to read. |
| 36 | 504 | How can one be fully human without the dignity, glory, and power of the written word? Is it not to the world what memory is to the individual? By its means words spoken long ago and faraway may once more be heard. |
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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.
Needless to say, all members of my caste, even from childhood, are taught to read.
How can one be fully human without the dignity, glory, and power of the written word? Is it not to the world what memory is to the individual? By its means words spoken long ago and faraway may once more be heard.
- (Mariners of Gor)