Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 33 | 222 | One does not View more quotes about understand">understand a mode of speech, or an accent, and then, suddenly, one does. |
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 33 | 219 | Some adjustments are doubtless made of which one is not aware. |
| 33 | 220 | How complicated is the brain, and mysterious its secret courses and routes! Yet the phenomenon is not without precedent. |
| 33 | 221 | One can make nothing of a gesture language and then, suddenly, it is intelligible. |
| 33 | 222 | One does not understand a mode of speech, or an accent, and then, suddenly, one does. |
| 33 | 223 | It is the language one knows but it was seemingly distorted, concealed, or transformed, and then, as though the curtain was swept aside or the key suddenly revealed, all that which a moment ago defied comprehension is suddenly made manifest, simple, even embarrassingly so. |
| 33 | 224 | "I do not understand," said he who had admitted us. |
| 33 | 225 | "Continue," said Kurik. |
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Some adjustments are doubtless made of which one is not aware.
How complicated is the brain, and mysterious its secret courses and routes! Yet the phenomenon is not without precedent.
One can make nothing of a gesture language and then, suddenly, it is intelligible.
One does not understand a mode of speech, or an accent, and then, suddenly, one does.
It is the language one knows but it was seemingly distorted, concealed, or transformed, and then, as though the curtain was swept aside or the key suddenly revealed, all that which a moment ago defied comprehension is suddenly made manifest, simple, even embarrassingly so.
"I do not understand," said he who had admitted us.
"Continue," said Kurik.
- (Plunder of Gor)