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| 5 | 177 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps the best translation into English of 'La kajira', considering the contempt in which we are held, as we are vendible work and pleasure animals, might be "I am a slave girl". |
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| 5 | 174 | Both 'Lo kajirus ' and 'La kajira ' may be translated "I am a slave". |
| 5 | 175 | 'Lo kajirus ' is masculine; 'La kajira ' is feminine. |
| 5 | 176 | Accordingly, the first would be understood as "I am a male slave," and the second as "I am a female slave". |
| 5 | 177 | Perhaps the best translation into English of 'La kajira', considering the contempt in which we are held, as we are vendible work and pleasure animals, might be "I am a slave girl". |
| 5 | 178 | When I awakened on the wooden floor, in the high-ceilinged, spacious room, naked amongst others, and was positioned so that I might be conveniently bound, I realized that I, and these others, had been selected. |
| 5 | 179 | Thus, having been selected, I supposed, as well, that we had been assessed, and, assessed, had been found acceptable. |
| 5 | 180 | But for what had we been found acceptable? When the cords were knotted about my wrists and ankles there could be little doubt about the matter. |