Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 240 | Was I View more quotes about afraid">afraid I would find myself in such books, in such a world, that I would find myself somehow therein? Did I fear I might learn something which, in some sense, I feared I already knew? "You have never heard of Gor?" he asked. |
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 237 | What was there to be afraid of? Surely I had had a course in anthropology in college, and was aware of variations in human cultures. |
| 1 | 238 | What then is another culture? So what was so different about Gor? Why should I have been afraid, so unaccountably, to do something so simple as to read a certain book, or books? Surely there was nothing to fear. |
| 1 | 239 | What could possibly be so disturbing about the mere thought of apprising oneself of unfamiliar possibilities? Can ideas draw blood? Surely truth is unavailing against mighty walls. |
| 1 | 240 | Was I afraid I would find myself in such books, in such a world, that I would find myself somehow therein? Did I fear I might learn something which, in some sense, I feared I already knew? "You have never heard of Gor?" he asked. |
| 1 | 241 | "No," I said. |
| 1 | 242 | "I think that what you are saying is false," he said. |
| 1 | 243 | "One such as you is not permitted to lie. |
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What was there to be afraid of? Surely I had had a course in anthropology in college, and was aware of variations in human cultures.
What then is another culture? So what was so different about Gor? Why should I have been afraid, so unaccountably, to do something so simple as to read a certain book, or books? Surely there was nothing to fear.
What could possibly be so disturbing about the mere thought of apprising oneself of unfamiliar possibilities? Can ideas draw blood? Surely truth is unavailing against mighty walls.
Was I afraid I would find myself in such books, in such a world, that I would find myself somehow therein? Did I fear I might learn something which, in some sense, I feared I already knew? "You have never heard of Gor?" he asked.
"No," I said.
"I think that what you are saying is false," he said.
"One such as you is not permitted to lie.
- (Plunder of Gor)