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And even then what reaches the taverns and markets is likely to be only incomplete and garbled accounts, passed from to hand to hand, so to speak, and often founded, ultimately, I fear, on the ramblings of merchants and mariners, perhaps enunciated through the fumes of paga. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #224)

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. And even then what reaches the taverns and markets is likely to be only incomplete and garbled accounts, passed from to hand to hand, so to speak, and often founded, ultimately, I fear, on the ramblings of merchants and mariners, perhaps enunciated through the fumes of paga. Access to local news, of course, is likely to be more prompt, if not more accurate. So I knelt before Leander, hoping for a roll or bit of bread, and told him the latest gossip and rumors, the freshest scandals and stories, which had circulated amongst the patrons of the Golden Chain. As a slave, one grows extremely sensitive to the moods, the expressions, the subtle attitudes, the little things, about the free, and, accordingly, I paid close attention to items which I sensed pleased Master Leander, and those in which, from my memory, I suspected he might be especially interested, and then I elaborated on them, and embellished them shamelessly. - (Quarry of Gor)