Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 36 | 502 | View more quotes about indeed">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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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 36 | 505 | By the magic of such marks, the sorcery of small signs, we converse with those we have never met, touch dreams we could not otherwise share, at a glance rekindle flames which first burned in distant hearts. |
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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.
By the magic of such marks, the sorcery of small signs, we converse with those we have never met, touch dreams we could not otherwise share, at a glance rekindle flames which first burned in distant hearts.
- (Mariners of Gor)