Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 91 | I View more quotes about wondered">wondered if it were a use-name, or his real name. |
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 88 | He would speak little himself, being unskilled in speech, and being too proud to form sentences which he knew would most likely be stumbling and ungrammatical, but would sit by the fire until dawn refusing to let me sleep, wanting me to talk to him, to tell him stories, to recount adventures, to give him news of faraway places. |
| 3 | 89 | What I said, I knew, would be less important than the fact that something was said, that he had not been alone again. |
| 3 | 90 | "I am Zosk," he said. |
| 3 | 91 | I wondered if it were a use-name, or his real name. |
| 3 | 92 | Members of low castes often call themselves by a use-name, reserving the real name for intimates and friends, to protect it against capture by a sorcerer or worker of spells who might use it to do them harm. |
| 3 | 93 | Somehow I sensed that Zosk was his real name. |
| 3 | 94 | "Zosk of what city?" I asked. |
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He would speak little himself, being unskilled in speech, and being too proud to form sentences which he knew would most likely be stumbling and ungrammatical, but would sit by the fire until dawn refusing to let me sleep, wanting me to talk to him, to tell him stories, to recount adventures, to give him news of faraway places.
What I said, I knew, would be less important than the fact that something was said, that he had not been alone again.
"I am Zosk," he said.
I wondered if it were a use-name, or his real name.
Members of low castes often call themselves by a use-name, reserving the real name for intimates and friends, to protect it against capture by a sorcerer or worker of spells who might use it to do them harm.
Somehow I sensed that Zosk was his real name.
"Zosk of what city?" I asked.
- (Outlaw of Gor)