Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 47 | He View more quotes about stood">stood within my space. |
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 44 | In my particular Earth culture, this circle of inviolate, privately owned space had a radius of some two to three feet. |
| 2 | 45 | Closer than this we did not, commonly, in my culture, approach one another. |
| 2 | 46 | But this man stood close to me. |
| 2 | 47 | He stood within my space. |
| 2 | 48 | Suddenly I realized that my space did not exist on this world. |
| 2 | 49 | I began to tremble with terror. |
| 2 | 50 | So small a thing it seems, perhaps, that this convention should on this world not be acknowledged or respected, indeed, that, at least in my case, it did not exist, but it is not, truly, a small thing; no, to me the crumbling of this artifice, this protective device, this convention, was catastrophic; it is difficult to convey my sense of loss, of helplessness; on this world my space did not exist. |
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In my particular Earth culture, this circle of inviolate, privately owned space had a radius of some two to three feet.
Closer than this we did not, commonly, in my culture, approach one another.
But this man stood close to me.
He stood within my space.
Suddenly I realized that my space did not exist on this world.
I began to tremble with terror.
So small a thing it seems, perhaps, that this convention should on this world not be acknowledged or respected, indeed, that, at least in my case, it did not exist, but it is not, truly, a small thing; no, to me the crumbling of this artifice, this protective device, this convention, was catastrophic; it is difficult to convey my sense of loss, of helplessness; on this world my space did not exist.
- (Slave Girl of Gor)