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| 14 | 31 | The View more quotes about height">height of these tables, a bit higher than the common Gorean table, is matched to the surface of the couches, for ease of access. |
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| 14 | 28 | On the other hand, in certain high houses, and surely in the house of Lysander, often, particularly given the presence of guests, dining couches were employed. |
| 14 | 29 | It was so this night. |
| 14 | 30 | On these couches, usually arranged in a square or rectangle, sometimes in a circle or oval, the guests recline and help themselves from the low, narrow tables, these set before the couches. |
| 14 | 31 | The height of these tables, a bit higher than the common Gorean table, is matched to the surface of the couches, for ease of access. |
| 14 | 32 | The serving, given the spacing between the couches, may be done from either outside or inside the parallel concentricity, so to speak, of couches and tables. |
| 14 | 33 | Guests occupying the central position on the couches are, as would be expected, served from the inside, namely, from within the arrangement. |
| 14 | 34 | In this arrangement the men and women may recline beside one another which, doubtless, in the way of a nice fillip, adds to the informality, stimulation, and delight of the occasion. |