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| 12 | 67 | Pets are not View more quotes about taught">taught to speak, but I learned to do so; the mechanical translators, and Lord Grendel, and some others, were helpful; and, after the dislocations of an insurrection, and the downfall of Agamemnon, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, former Theocrat of the World, that world, learning of this world, a beautiful, natural world, not a small world and one of metal, and ships which might voyage here, I decided to embark, reach this world, and make my fortune here, in particular, becoming a Ubara, a ruler or consort of a ruler, of some great city - I had heard of Ar - or, possibly, of the planet itself". |
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| 12 | 64 | "There is nothing wrong with being a pet," she said. |
| 12 | 65 | "Indeed, on the world once of Agamemnon, Eleventh face of the Nameless One, it was a great honor to be the pet of a Kur, particularly if one were only a human being, and not a female Kur, defanged and declawed, kept in chains and chastisable by the rod. |
| 12 | 66 | I myself had the privilege of being the pet of Lord Arcesilaus, who now, as I understand it, is the Twelfth Face of the Nameless One, Theocrat of the World, that world. |
| 12 | 67 | Pets are not taught to speak, but I learned to do so; the mechanical translators, and Lord Grendel, and some others, were helpful; and, after the dislocations of an insurrection, and the downfall of Agamemnon, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, former Theocrat of the World, that world, learning of this world, a beautiful, natural world, not a small world and one of metal, and ships which might voyage here, I decided to embark, reach this world, and make my fortune here, in particular, becoming a Ubara, a ruler or consort of a ruler, of some great city - I had heard of Ar - or, possibly, of the planet itself". |
| 12 | 68 | How naive she is, I thought. |
| 12 | 69 | Again I tried to envisage what might have been her socialization, her acculturation. |
| 12 | 70 | Then it occurred to me that, from what she had said, for most practical purposes, she had had little in the way of such customary amenities. |