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The taverns, in their way, rather like the markets, provide a clearing house for reports and rumors, for facts and lies, for information and misinformation, and the paga girls, by default, so to speak, are likely to be amongst the best informed sources of information and misinformation in the city. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #220)

It was Leander, the Baker. As I passed this way every day or two, or every two or three days, I knew some of the shopkeepers by appearance and name. I was sometimes called to their feet and questioned with respect to what was current in the city. The taverns, in their way, rather like the markets, provide a clearing house for reports and rumors, for facts and lies, for information and misinformation, and the paga girls, by default, so to speak, are likely to be amongst the best informed sources of information and misinformation in the city. They are curious and hear much; and they frequently chat amongst themselves, and share what they have heard, and, I suspect, often more than they have heard. Goreans, bond and free, are eager for news, but the channels of its conveyance, for the populace at large, it lacking post riders and hired informants, tend to be unreliable and haphazard. It can take months for the news of some event of importance in Schendi or remote Turia to reach Kassau or Hunjer, or Port Kar, or even Cos, or Tyros. - (Quarry of Gor)