Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 1173 | At View more quotes about times">times I did not even understand the auctioneer. |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 1170 | I blinked against the light, and put down my head. |
| 8 | 1171 | Then I felt the switch of the auctioneer beneath my chin, and I lifted my head, and opened my eyes, looking over the heads of the men. |
| 8 | 1172 | Much of what then went on remains a blur. |
| 8 | 1173 | At times I did not even understand the auctioneer. |
| 8 | 1174 | This was doubtless in part a function of my Gorean, which was new, and limited, with its unfamiliar grammar, and my vocabulary consisting at that time of only a few hundred words, but, too, I think, part of it was an unwillingness, or refusal, to understand what was being said, or done. |
| 8 | 1175 | My native tongue is called "English," and I am not sure that I would have allowed myself to understand the auctioneer even had he been speaking in that tongue. |
| 8 | 1176 | I had, incidentally, interestingly, understood him quite well, almost always, when he was vending others. |
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I blinked against the light, and put down my head.
Then I felt the switch of the auctioneer beneath my chin, and I lifted my head, and opened my eyes, looking over the heads of the men.
Much of what then went on remains a blur.
At times I did not even understand the auctioneer.
This was doubtless in part a function of my Gorean, which was new, and limited, with its unfamiliar grammar, and my vocabulary consisting at that time of only a few hundred words, but, too, I think, part of it was an unwillingness, or refusal, to understand what was being said, or done.
My native tongue is called "English," and I am not sure that I would have allowed myself to understand the auctioneer even had he been speaking in that tongue.
I had, incidentally, interestingly, understood him quite well, almost always, when he was vending others.
- (Conspirators of Gor)