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| 2 | 238 |
He added, "That is why I like to think of the planet as the Counter-Earth, not only because of its resemblance to our native world, but because, as a matter of fact, it is placed as a counterpoise to the Earth. |
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| 2 | 262 |
"Surely you know," he laughed, "one must distinguish between the data to be interpreted and the interpretation of the data, and one chooses, normally, the interpretation that preserves as much as possible of the old world view, and, in the thinking of the Earth, there is no place for Gor, its true s... |
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| 1 | 1 |
A Handful of Earth My name is Tarl Cabot. |
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| 1 | 145 |
Carry on your person the ring of red metal, and bring me, if you would, a handful of our green earth. |
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| 1 | 218 |
As I lay there in the moonlight, I felt the earth beneath me, against my aching muscles and the body that was covered with the foul-smelling sheen of fear and sweat. |
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| 1 | 230 |
I bent down and scooped up, as my father had asked, a handful of our green earth. |
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| 2 | 1 |
The Counter-Earth I remembered nothing, from the time I'd boarded the silver disk in the mountains of New Hampshire until now. |
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| 2 | 23 |
The sky, like that of the earth, was blue. |
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| 2 | 24 |
My first thought was that this must be the earth and the sun's apparent size an illusion. |
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| 2 | 26 |
It must be the earth. |
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| 2 | 39 |
The planet, then, was smaller than our earth, and, given the apparent size of the sun, perhaps somewhat closer to it. |
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| 2 | 88 |
"The handful of earth," he said. |
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| 2 | 123 |
The Home Stone came naturally, in time, to acquire a mystique, and something of the same hot, sweet emotions as our native peoples of Earth feel toward their flags became invested in it". |
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| 2 | 139 |
It encloses a handful of soil from the Earth, a handful of soil that I first brought with me when I came to this world—a long time ago". |
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| 2 | 141 |
"I shall keep the handful of earth you brought," he said, his voice very quiet, "and someday it may be yours". |
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| 2 | 155 |
As he spoke, my father often referred to the planet Gor as the Counter-Earth, taking the name from the writings of the Pythagoreans who had first speculated on the existence of such a body. |
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| 2 | 239 |
It has the same plane of orbit and maintains its orbit in such a way as always to keep The Central Fire between it and its planetary sister, our Earth, even though this necessitates occasional adjustments in its speed of revolution". |
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| 2 | 241 |
One can't hide a planet the size of the Earth in our own solar system! It's impossible!" "You underestimate the Priest-Kings and their science," said my father, smiling. |
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| 2 | 256 |
"Actually," said my father, "there is evidence of the existence of the Counter-Earth". |
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| 2 | 267 |
He did not wish to discuss the reason for which I had been brought to the Counter-Earth, nor did he explain to me the comparatively minor mysteries of the envelope and its strange letter. |
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| 2 | 274 |
Why have the Priest-Kings been so lenient in this case—those who control this second earth? I think the answer is simple. |
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| 2 | 277 |
After all, suppose you should accept this tale, should learn of the Counter-Earth and of the Voyages of Acquisition, what could you do? You could do nothing, you with your rudimentary technology of which you are so proud—you could do nothing at least for a thousand years, and by that time, if... |
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| 3 | 35 |
At first only Torm and my father were my teachers, but as I began to master the language of my new home, numerous others, apparently of Earth stock, assumed responsibility for my lessons in special areas. |
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| 3 | 106 |
The angle of its axis was somewhat sharper than the Earth's, but not enough to prevent its having a glorious periodicity of seasons. |
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| 3 | 107 |
Moreover, like the Earth, it had two polar regions and an equatorial belt, interspersed with northern and southern temperate zones. |
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| 3 | 124 |
On the whole, I liked the people I met, and I was confident that they were largely of Earth stock, that their ancestors had been brought to the planet in Voyages of Acquisition. |
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| 3 | 128 |
In the long ages on Gor almost all traces of Earth origin had vanished. |
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| 3 | 131 |
If I had been a skilled linguist, I undoubtedly would have discovered hundreds of parallels and affinities, grammatical and otherwise, between Gorean and various of the Earth languages. |
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| 3 | 132 |
Earth origin, incidentally, was not a part of the First Knowledge, though it was of the Second. |
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| 3 | 133 |
"Torm," I once asked, "why is Earth origin not part of the First Knowledge?" "Is it not self-evident?" he asked. |
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| 3 | 164 |
He was a blond Viking giant of a man, a bearded fellow with a cheerful, craggy face and fierce blue eyes, who strode about as though he owned the earth on which he stood. |
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| 3 | 256 |
Whereas large Earth birds, such as the eagle, must, when taking flight from the ground, begin with a running start, the tarn, with its incredible musculature, aided undoubtedly by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, can with a spring and a sudden flurry of its giant wings lift both himself and his ... |
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| 3 | 261 |
Disregarding the disproportion in size, the Earth bird which the tarn most closely resembles is the hawk, with the exception that it has a crest somewhat of the nature of a jay's. |
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| 4 | 84 |
Perhaps something of the same sort lingers even on our native Earth, where the first name of a person is reserved for use by those who know him intimately and presumably wish him no harm. |
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| 4 | 116 |
The Older Tarl and I had made a round of taverns in the various cylinders, and I recall toddling precariously, singing obscene camp lyrics, along different narrow bridges, about a yard wide without rails, and the earth somewhere below—how far I had no idea at the time. |
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| 8 | 134 |
I then wondered if that might be due to the influence of my father, whose Earth ways sometimes seemed at variance with the rude customs of Gor. |
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| 9 | 43 |
In the afternoon we moved on again, this time daring to use one of the wide paved highways that lead from Ar, highways built like walls in the earth, of solid, fitted stones intended to last a thousand years. |
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| 10 | 120 |
When the high tharlarion moves slowly, its stride is best described as a proud, stalking movement, each great clawed foot striking the earth with a measured rhythm. |
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| 13 | 56 |
The spear shaft snapped and the beast fell to the earth, rolling on its back, pawing at the air, uttering piercing, enraged shrieks, trying to bite the toothpick-like object from its body. |
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| 15 | 12 |
In back of the ditch slaves were piling up the earth which had been removed from the ditch, packing and hardening it into a rampart. |
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| 15 | 17 |
Also, half buried in the sands among the stakes and set in wooden blocks would be iron hooks, much like those used in ancient times on Earth and sometimes called spurs. |
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| 15 | 18 |
Behind the great ditch, separated from it by some hundred yards, there was a smaller ditch, perhaps twenty feet wide and twenty feet deep, also with a rampart formed from the excavated earth. |
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| 15 | 31 |
Some of the most hideous fighting in the siege would undoubtedly take place far under the earth in the cramped, foul, torchlit confines of those serpentine passageways, some of them hardly large enough to permit a man to crawl. |
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| 15 | 246 |
Marlenus left the tent, seemingly one of the Afflicted, a bent wreck of humanity pathetically scratching at the earth in front of him with the staff. |
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| 18 | 69 |
There were several, easily visible from above because of their broad, circular form, much like a great well sunk in the earth. |
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| 20 | 2 |
I have never surrendered the hope that someday, somehow, I might return to Gor, our Counter-Earth. |
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| 20 | 55 |
The ring was real, and I was awake, and there was a Counter-Earth, and the girl, Talena. |
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| 20 | 63 |
I have not been forced to work since my return from the Counter-Earth. |
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| 20 | 67 |
Strangely, though it has now been six years since I left the Counter-Earth, I can discover no signs of aging or physical alteration in my appearance. |
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| 2 | 2 |
I awakened naked in the wind-swept grass, beneath that blazing star that is the common sun of my two worlds, my home planet, Earth, and its secret sister, the Counter-Earth, Gor. |
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| 1 | 142 |
It was a document pertaining to what Cabot called the Counter-Earth, the story of a warrior, of the siege of a city, and of the love of a girl. |
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| 2 | 7 |
Given the lesser gravity, feats of prowess which might seem superhuman on earth were commonplace on Gor. |
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| 2 | 8 |
The sun, as I remembered it, seemed a bit larger than it did when viewed from the earth, but as before it was difficult to be altogether sure of this. |
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| 2 | 14 |
So standing, the sun upon me, without thinking I raised my arms as in pagan prayer to acknowledge the power of the Priest-Kings, which had once again brought me from Earth to this world, the power which once before had torn me from Gor when they were finished with me, taking me from my adopted city,... |
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| 3 | 5 |
The road, like most Gorean roads, was built like a wall in the earth and was intended to last a hundred generations. |
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| 6 | 9 |
Unlike the men of Earth, the Gorean has little sensitivity to race, but much to language and city. |
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| 14 | 152 |
"The bird is chained! Attack! Kill them both!" In that instant the bolt gave, and the nut spun from the shaft! The tarn, as if it understood it was free, shook the hated metal from its leg and lifted its beak to the skies and uttered such a cry as must have been heard by all in Tharna, a cry seldom ... |
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| 15 | 14 |
"Four-strap!" I called, and the bird began to drop toward the earth, preparing to land. |
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| 15 | 32 |
More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free. |
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| 17 | 3 |
How many such rooms lay beneath the earth of Tharna, in her many mines, I did not know. |
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| 17 | 79 |
The working day is fifteen Gorean hours, or Ahn, which, allowing for the slight difference in the period of the planet's rotation, would be approximately eighteen Earth hours. |
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| 19 | 37 |
Leading the chain of slaves in two lines behind me, we swept through the shafts like an eruption from the molten core of the earth. |
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| 20 | 67 |
Chronology in Ar is figured, happily enough, not from its Administrator Lists, but from its mythical founding by the first man on Gor, a hero whom the Priest-Kings are said to have formed from the mud of the earth and the blood of tarns. |
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| 21 | 269 |
On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names. |
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| 32 | 270 |
"As you might imagine," said Parp, "I acquired the habit originally on Earth and, since I have returned to Earth several times as an Agent of Priest-Kings, I have had the opportunity to indulge it. |
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| 1 | 1 |
The Fair of En'Kara I, Tarl Cabot, formerly of Earth, am one who is known to the Priest-Kings of Gor. |
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| 1 | 2 |
It came about late in the month of En'Kara in the year 10,117 from the founding of the city of Ar that I came to the Hall of Priest-Kings in the Sardar Mountains on the planet Gor, our Counter-Earth. |
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| 1 | 6 |
It had been caught in the shield of the Priest-Kings, invisible, not to be evaded, undoubtedly a field of some sort, which had so acted on the bird, perhaps affecting the mechanism of the inner ear, that the creature had become incapable of controlling itself and had fallen disoriented and confused ... |
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| 1 | 25 |
Indeed, our first account of the Counter-Earth, Tarnsman of Gor, was entrusted to Smith personally by Cabot, who shortly thereafter disappeared. |
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| 1 | 49 |
Gor would be the poorer were it not for his furious eccentricities; the Counter-Earth would simply not be the same without belligerent, exasperated little Torm. |
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| 1 | 93 |
Indeed, I had come to the Sardar to encounter the fabled Priest-Kings, whose incomparable power so inextricably influences the destinies of the cities and men of the Counter-Earth. |
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| 3 | 59 |
If one had encountered him in the eighteenth century, one might have taken him for a jolly, snuff-sniffing, roisterous country squire, knowing himself the salt of the earth, not above twitting the parson nor pinching the serving girls; in the nineteenth century he would have owned an old book shop a... |
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| 6 | 6 |
This reminded me of faucets on Earth, in which the hot water tap is on the left and the cold on the right. |
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| 6 | 7 |
Undoubtedly there is a common reason underlying these similar arrangements on Gor and Earth. |
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| 6 | 30 |
Indeed, when I had returned to Earth from my first trip to Gor I had found that one of the minor inconveniences of my return was reaccustoming myself to the simple business of sitting on chairs. |
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| 7 | 39 |
On the other hand these generalizations are imperfect, for Gorean speech is no less complex than that of any of the great natural language communities of the Earth nor are its speakers any the less diverse. |
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| 9 | 14 |
On the whole I find her more joyful than many of her Earth-inhabiting sisters who, theoretically at least, enjoy a more lofty status, although it is surely true that on my old world I have met several women with something of the Gorean zest for acknowledging the radiant truth of their sex, the gifts... |
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| 11 | 12 |
I would learn later that in scent it wore its rank, caste and station as clearly on its body as an officer in one of the armies of Earth might wear his distinguishing braid and metal bars. |
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| 16 | 40 |
"You have surely not failed to notice," said Misk, "that though you came to the Counter-Earth more than seven years ago you have undergone no significant physical alteration in that time". |
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| 16 | 50 |
"We keep in touch with the earth," said Misk, "for it might, in time, become a threat to us and then we would have to limit it, or destroy it or leave the solar system". |
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| 16 | 53 |
"According to our calculations, which may of course be mistaken, life as you know it on the earth will destroy itself within the next thousand years". |
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| 16 | 61 |
"Indeed," said Misk, "it was partly because of this tendency that we brought man to the Counter-Earth, for he is an interesting species and it would be sad to us if he disappeared from the universe". |
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| 16 | 63 |
"No," said Misk, "we have similarly brought various species to the Counter-Earth, from other locations". |
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| 16 | 72 |
"The Voyages of Acquisition," said Misk, "take place normally when we need fresh material from Earth, for our purposes". |
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| 16 | 109 |
"Your father was instructed to call you Tarl, and lest he might speak to you of the Counter-Earth or attempt to dissuade you from our purpose, he was returned to Gor before you were of an age to understand". |
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| 16 | 111 |
"She knew," said Misk, "for though she was a woman of Earth she had been to Gor". |
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| 16 | 125 |
"It frightened her," said Misk, "and your father asked that she be allowed to return to Earth, for, loving her, he wished her to be happy and also perhaps he wanted you to know something of his old world". |
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| 16 | 184 |
"Why," I asked, "was I returned to Earth after the siege of Ar?" "To fill you with hatred for Priest-Kings," said Misk. |
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| 17 | 64 |
Its speed is controlled by the placement of the feet along double accelerator strips which lie flush with the surface of the disk; its direction is controlled by the rider, who bends and turns his body, thereby transmitting force to the lightly riding disk, the principles involved being no more unus... |
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| 20 | 198 |
I have wondered upon occasion about this practice, so different on Gor than on Earth. |
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| 20 | 202 |
Yes, undoubtedly our Earth girls would find this most surprising. |
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| 27 | 3 |
It was almost eight Gorean Ahn, or about ten Earth hours, since I had separated from Misk and Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta early this morning. |
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| 27 | 90 |
I wondered if, among Priest-Kings, he would have helped her, or if there would have been others from the former Nest, or if she alone would have fallen to earth, to eat the wings that had borne her, and to burrow beneath the mountains to begin the lonely work of the Mother, the creation of the new N... |
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| 28 | 106 |
Whether or not this would be the same with the girls of Earth I do not know. |
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| 28 | 219 |
I am afraid it was rather primitive, except that the principles on which it operated were far more advanced than anything now available to Earth's, as I now understand, somewhat painfully rudimentary science. |
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| 28 | 228 |
When one lifts the craft it seems the earth moves from beneath one; when one moves it forward it seems as though the horizon rushed toward one; if one should place it in reverse, it seems the horizon glides away. |
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| 29 | 18 |
Gor is somewhat smaller than the earth and, accordingly, its gravitational pull is less. |
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| 32 | 249 |
"You are from Earth, are you not?" I asked. |
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| 33 | 38 |
Well could I suppose the terror and upheavals that had brought these men, normally so divided against one another in the strife of their warring cities, to the palisade, to the dark shadows of the Sardar—the earthquakes, the tidal waves, the hurricanes and atmospheric disturbances, and the un... |
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| 35 | 133 |
"But in the end," said he, "life is as real as death and there will be a return of the ultimate rhythms, and a new explosion will cast forth the primitive particles and we shall have another turn of the wheel, and someday, sometime, in eons which defy the calculations even of Priest-Kings, there may... |
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| 25 | 164 |
I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in... |
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| 1 | 24 |
I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap... |
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| 7 | 210 |
There must be others—others, who did not wish me to succeed in my work, who wished Priest-Kings, the race, to die, others who were capable even of bringing humans from Earth for their purposes—technologically advanced—others who were, perhaps, cautiously, invisibly, at war with ... |
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| 12 | 485 |
She was gentle, not understanding, naive, in her way foolish—a girl of Earth but not on Earth—not a woman of Gor female on her own barbaric world—she would always be of Earth—the bright, pretty girl with the stenographer's pad—like many girls of Earth, not men but ... |
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| 17 | 35 |
It might be gilled, like Gorean sharks, probably descendants of Earth sharks placed experimentally in Thassa millennia ago by Priest-Kings, or it might have the gurdo, the layered, ventral membrane, shielded by porous plating, of several of the marine predators perhaps native to Gor, perhaps brought... |
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| 1 | 29 |
Accordingly, the main divisions of the map are Ta-Sardar-Var, and the other seven; taking the Sardar as our "north pole" the other directions, clockwise as Earth clocks move (Gorean clock hands move in the opposite direction) would be, first, Ta-Sardar-Var, then, in order, Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (somet... |
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| 1 | 61 |
Then I began to feel, through the soles of my sandals, the trembling of the earth. |
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| 1 | 63 |
The earth itself was shaking from the hoofs of the bosk herds of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 1 |
I Make the Acquaintance of the Wagon Peoples As I walked I asked myself why I did so—why I, Tarl Cabot—once of Earth, later a warrior of the Gorean city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, had come here. |
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| 2 | 2 |
In the long years that had passed since first I had come to the Counter-Earth I had seen many things, and had known loves, and had found adventures and perils and wonders, but I asked myself if anything I had done was as unreasoning, as foolish as this, as strange. |
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| 2 | 8 |
Could I—Tarl Cabot, a human and mortal, find this object and, as Priest-Kings now wished, return it to the Sardar—return it to the hidden courts of Priest-Kings that it might there fulfill its unique and irreplaceable role in the destiny of this barbaric world—Gor, our Counter-E... |
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| 2 | 54 |
I was surprised at the distance I had been from the herds, for though I had seen the rolling dust clearly, and had felt and did feel the shaking of the earth, betraying the passage of those monstrous herds, I had not yet come to them. |
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| 2 | 57 |
The grass and the earth seemed to quake beneath my tread. |
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| 2 | 160 |
Were they of Earth stock, I asked myself. |
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| 3 | 116 |
In their way I knew they were honoring me, that they had respected my stand in the matter of the charging lances, that now they were gambling to see who would win me, to whose weapons my blood must flow, beneath the paws of whose kaiila I must fall bloodied to the earth. |
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| 3 | 117 |
I watched the lance tremble in the shaking earth, and saw the intentness of the riders as they watched its slightest movement. |
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| 3 | 131 |
Now, also, for the first time, I could clearly smell the herd, a rich, vast, fresh, musky, pervasive odor, compounded of trampled grass and torn earth, of the dung, urine and sweat of perhaps more than a million beasts. |
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| 3 | 132 |
The magnificent vitality of that smell, so offensive to some, astonished and thrilled me; it spoke to me of the insurgence and the swell of life itself, ebullient, raw, overflowing, unconquerable, primitive, shuffling, smelling, basic, animal, stamping, snorting, moving, an avalanche of tissue and b... |
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| 5 | 14 |
I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ... |
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| 5 | 80 |
"No fool," said Kamchak, "but Tarl Cabot, a warrior, one who has held in his hands with me grass and earth". |
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| 5 | 83 |
"He has held with me grass and earth," he said. |
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| 6 | 14 |
I was astonished, for this girl was dressed not as a Gorean, not as a girl of any of the cities of the Counter-Earth, not as a peasant of the Sa-Tarna fields or the vineyards where the Ta grapes are raised, not even as a girl of the fierce Wagon Peoples. |
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| 6 | 60 |
I was thunderstruck that a girl, apparently of Earth, who spoke English, should be brought to the Tuchuks at this time—at the time that I was among them, hoping to discover and return to Priest-Kings what I supposed to be a golden spheroid, the egg, the last hope of their race. |
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| 6 | 116 |
"This is not Earth," I told her. |
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| 6 | 117 |
"This is Gor—another earth perhaps—but not yours". |
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| 7 | 2 |
Beside the wagon, on a great pole fixed in the earth, stood the Tuchuk standard of the four bosk horns. |
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| 7 | 8 |
A large dais had been built, vast and spreading, but standing no more than a foot from the earth. |
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| 7 | 74 |
Although there were risks involved I tried to translate as exactly as I could, letting Miss Cardwell speak as she would, though her words must often have sounded fantastic to the Tuchuks, for it was largely of a world alien to them that she spoke—a world not of autonomous cities but of huge n... |
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| 7 | 86 |
It seemed to me, from what I had learned, that there was no particular reason why Elizabeth Cardwell, and not one of Earth's countless others, had been selected to wear the message collar. |
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| 7 | 89 |
Miss Cardwell was little different from thousands of lovely working girls in the great cities of Earth, perhaps more intelligent than many, perhaps prettier than most, but essentially the same, girls living alone or together in apartments, working in offices and studios and shops, struggling to earn... |
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| 7 | 147 |
But how was it that Elizabeth Cardwell, of Earth, wore a Turian message collar? Kamchak drew the quiva from his belt and approached the girl. |
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| 7 | 184 |
"He has held grass and earth with me," he said. |
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| 7 | 224 |
"Because," said he, "we have together held grass and earth". |
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| 7 | 253 |
Perhaps in that moment Elizabeth Cardwell recalled the strange man, so fearsome, gray of face with eyes like glass, who had so examined her on Earth, before whom she had stood as though on a block, unknowingly being examined for her fitness to bear the message collar of Turia. |
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| 8 | 54 |
* * * * On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches ... |
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| 8 | 145 |
I gathered that girls such as Elizabeth Cardwell, used to buying machine-made, presewn garments on Earth, were not as skilled as they might be in certain of the homely crafts which used to be associated with homemaking, crafts which might, upon occasion, it seemed, come in handy. |
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| 8 | 240 |
It was an English name, but such are not unknown on Gor, having been passed down, perhaps, for more than a thousand years, the name of an ancestor, perhaps brought to Gor by Priest-Kings in what might have been the early Middle Ages of Earth. |
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| 10 | 231 |
She was standing facing the charging tharlarion, as though rooted to the earth, her hands before her face. |
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| 10 | 234 |
I straightened up and saw that the lines of the tharlarion lancers had, with much pounding and trampling of the earth, with shouting, with the hissing of the great beasts, stopped short, abruptly, some fifteen yards or so behind their line of stakes. |
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| 11 | 27 |
To them, of course, she was now no more than they, save perhaps that her flesh would not be used to bear the poles of palanquins, to carry boxes nor dig in the earth, but would be appointed its own tasks, lighter and more suitable, doubtless even more pleasing than theirs to a master. |
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| 12 | 484 |
She was of Earth and knew not the flames which her words might have evoked in the breast of a Gorean warrior—nor did she understand herself truly nor the relation in which she, slave girl, stood to a free man to whom she had been for the hour given—I could not tell her that another war... |
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| 16 | 206 |
I immediately recalled Elizabeth's description of the man who had examined her for fitness to bear the message collar—on Earth! "I have never seen that man," said Ha-Keel. |
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| 19 | 177 |
The Gorean Ihn, or second, is only a little longer than the Earth second. |
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| 21 | 314 |
Almost instantly there was a wild cry, the war cry of the Tuchuks, and the first five kaiila leaped from outside the gate onto the top of the wagon, finding firm footing on what I had taken to be simple rain canvas, but actually was canvas stretched over a load of rocks and earth, accounting for the... |
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| 22 | 66 |
Incidentally, Gorean coins are not made to be stacked and accordingly, because of the possible depth of the relief and the consequent liberties accorded to the artist, the Gorean coin is almost always more beautiful than the machine-milled, flat, uniform coins of Earth. |
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| 23 | 78 |
And then, as the Paravaci bosk horns sounded frantically, our bosk began to run, their mighty heads with the fearsome horns nodding up and down, and the earth began to tremble and my men cried out more and jabbed animals, riding with the flood and the Paravaci with cries of horror that coursed the l... |
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| 24 | 206 |
Beside it, fixed in the earth, on a pole, there was a standard of four bosk horns. |
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| 25 | 294 |
She was, I forcibly reminded myself, not a Gorean girl, but one of Earth. |
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| 25 | 370 |
"That is nonsense!" "I do not speak of the words that are used, or how men of Earth would speak of these things," I said, "but of what is not spoken—of what is implicit perhaps in what is said and taught. |
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| 25 | 374 |
"Our Earth," I suggested. |
10 |
| 25 | 379 |
Compare her with your average wife of Earth". |
10 |
| 25 | 588 |
"Though I am of Earth," she said, "try to use me as slave". |
10 |
| 25 | 687 |
She was of Earth. |
10 |
| 25 | 708 |
She was of Earth. |
10 |
| 25 | 764 |
I supposed at this time many men of Earth, properly conditioned, would have been shaken, and would have fallen promptly to this keen weapon, shamed, retreating stricken with guilt, with misgivings, as the female wished. |
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| 26 | 38 |
Now, in the east, as on Earth, we could see a lightness in the sky. |
10 |
| 26 | 74 |
They filed before us in the street below, each under the contemptuous eyes of the warriors of the Wagon Peoples, each in turn going to a long table whereon were placed many pairs of scales, and each at that table was weighed out four Gorean stone of gold, about six Earth pounds, which he put in his ... |
10 |
| 26 | 282 |
It was done, gone, ended! My mission had failed! The Priest-Kings would die! This world, and perhaps my other, dear Earth, would now fall to the mysterious Others, whoever or whatever they might be. |
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| 26 | 299 |
It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of Priest-Kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my friend Misk's life and its pur... |
10 |
| 26 | 452 |
"Once you spared my life, and we held grass and earth together, and from that time, even had you been outlaw and knave, I would have died for you, but still, of course, I could not give you the egg. |
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| 26 | 560 |
Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo... |
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| 27 | 133 |
It was hard for me to believe that this marvelous, collared beauty in my arms was once a simple girl of Earth, that this astounding wench, Tuchuk and Gorean, was the same as Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, the young secretary who so long before had found herself inexplicably thrust into intrigues and circu... |
10 |
| 27 | 134 |
Whatever she might have been before, a clock number, a set of records in a personnel file, an unimportant employee, with her salary and benefits, under the obligation to please and impress other employees, scarcely more important than herself, she was now alive, and free in her emotions though her f... |
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| 28 | 49 |
"Never forget," said Kamchak, "that you and I have together held grass and earth". |
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| 28 | 62 |
We will ride to your side, be it even to the cities of Earth". |
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| 28 | 63 |
"You know of Earth?" I asked. |
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| 3 | 26 |
I recalled that men from many periods and cultures of Earth had been brought, from time to time, to Gor, our Counter-Earth. |
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| 11 | 325 |
The male of Earth is conditioned to be more timid, vacillating and repressed than the males of Gor; to be subject, to achieve social controls, to guilts and anxieties that would be as incomprehensible to the Gorean male as a guilt over having spoken to one's father-in-law's sister would be to most o... |
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| 2 | 6 |
The city had fallen and Pa-Kur, though of low caste, had aspired to inherit the imperial mantle of Marlenus, had dared to lift his eyes to the throne of Empire and place about his neck the golden medallion of a Ubar, a thing forbidden to such as he in the myths of the Counter-Earth. |
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| 3 | 14 |
As I could I put these thoughts from my mind, but I could not fully escape them, for among them was the memory of a girl, she, Talena, the daughter of the Ubar of Ubars, Marlenus, who so many years before had been the Free Companion of a simple Warrior of Ko-ro-ba, he who had been torn from her at t... |
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| 3 | 28 |
I have suspected that chess, with its fascinating history and development, as played on Earth, may actually have derived from a common ancestor with the Gorean game, both of them perhaps tracing their lineage to some long-forgotten game, perhaps the draughts of Egypt or some primitive board game of ... |
10 |
| 3 | 31 |
It is not unusual to find even children of twelve or fourteen years who play with a depth and sophistication, a subtlety and a brilliance, that might be the envy of the chess masters of Earth. |
10 |
| 3 | 67 |
One supposes something similar may have happened with the plagues of the Middle Ages on Earth. |
10 |
| 3 | 77 |
For example, though I received the series of injections when first I came to Gor many years ago I had been told by Physicians that they might, in my case, have been unnecessary, for I was the child of parents who, though of Earth, had been of Gor, and had received the serums. |
10 |
| 3 | 134 |
I myself had seen chess masters on Earth play twenty boards simultaneously and blindfolded. |
10 |
| 3 | 135 |
Yet I, of Earth origin, while recognizing that what I was witnessing was actually not as astonishing as it might seem, was nonetheless impressed. |
10 |
| 4 | 178 |
Tuchuk women, both slave and free, have fixed in their noses a tiny ring of gold, small and fine, not unlike the wedding rings of Earth. |
10 |
| 5 | 66 |
She, of Earth, had never heard of this trick, and yet, from the barest of hints, she had understood what could be done. |
10 |
| 5 | 101 |
"Vella," said I, "in spite of all you have been through on this world you yet retain certain of the taints of the Earth woman". |
10 |
| 5 | 144 |
Sometimes I was forced to remind myself that she was Miss Elizabeth Cardwell of Earth, and not, as she lost herself uncontrollably in our pleasures, hands clutching at the slave ring, a Gorean slave girl, bred for the pleasures of a master. |
10 |
| 5 | 299 |
In the last days, I spoke often with Misk of the difficulties connected with obtaining the last egg of Priest-Kings, in particular informing him that others had wished the egg as well, and had nearly acquired it, others who had had the technology to visit Earth, to seize and utilize humans for their... |
10 |
| 5 | 312 |
Earth and Gor, I knew, shared the third ring. |
10 |
| 5 | 324 |
"The Others," I said, "surely could conquer Earth". |
10 |
| 5 | 382 |
Were they simple barbarians, Gor and Earth would now be theirs". |
10 |
| 5 | 388 |
"We could not now resist a general attack, nor protect Earth, but the Others will not believe it". |
10 |
| 5 | 472 |
"I am of Earth," she said. |
10 |
| 5 | 473 |
"Earth owes its freedom to Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 5 | 611 |
Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by... |
10 |
| 5 | 647 |
In the face of such logic, smacking of the contaminations of Earth, there had been little to do but capitulate, bother though it might be. |
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| 7 | 116 |
Certain of the boxes which were unloaded, to my surprise, bore lettering in various languages of Earth. |
10 |
| 7 | 118 |
I suspected, however, that the goods in these boxes might not all be those of Earth. |
10 |
| 7 | 119 |
I suspected rather that in some of these boxes at least might be goods from the ships of Others, transported by way of Earth, in ships to be piloted by men. |
10 |
| 7 | 120 |
Some of the goods, however, were surely of Earth. |
10 |
| 7 | 140 |
It was, I assumed, Earth gold. |
10 |
| 7 | 149 |
They were doubtless girls kidnapped on Earth, brought to Gor to be slaves. |
10 |
| 7 | 181 |
I felt sorry for the girls of Earth. |
10 |
| 7 | 183 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, I reminded myself, was of Earth. |
10 |
| 8 | 61 |
Earth girls, I knew, were usually sold as untrained barbarians at inferior prices. |
10 |
| 8 | 79 |
She was generally intrigued, though frightened when I spoke of the thing called the beast, and distressed when I mentioned the girls brought from Earth, to be sold as slaves from the House of Cernus. |
10 |
| 8 | 139 |
"Perhaps it is from Earth?" she asked. |
10 |
| 8 | 140 |
"Originally, doubtless beans were brought from Earth," I said, "much as certain other seeds, and silk worms and such, but I doubt very much that the ship I saw last night had in its cargo anything as trivial as the beans for black wine". |
10 |
| 9 | 78 |
I looked suitably impressed, though of course, from Earth, I was familiar with the principles of such things. |
10 |
| 9 | 103 |
I myself had never cared much for exotics, any more than I cared much for some of the species of dogs and goldfish which some breeders of Earth regarded as such triumphs. |
10 |
| 11 | 58 |
Each of them I suspected would be intelligent, for Goreans, as the men of Earth commonly do not, celebrate quickness of mind and alertness in a girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 244 |
"As you probably have suspected, noting the difference in gravitational field," said Flaminius, "this is not Earth". |
10 |
| 11 | 246 |
"This is the Counter-Earth," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 254 |
"You have heard, as many others," he asked, "of the Counter-Earth?" "It is only in stories," she said. |
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| 11 | 276 |
"You are the females of weaker men," said Flaminius, "the men of Earth". |
10 |
| 11 | 280 |
We have ships which can traverse space to Earth. |
10 |
| 11 | 281 |
We will conquer Earth. |
10 |
| 11 | 284 |
Earth is a slave world. |
10 |
| 11 | 290 |
"It is true that in much of the history of the Earth the sort of thing you say was done". |
10 |
| 11 | 305 |
"You must know two of the ancient languages of Earth. |
10 |
| 11 | 311 |
"Have you not noticed," asked Flaminius, "the men of this world? Do they seem like those of Earth to you?" He pointed to the guard, who was a tall, strong fellow, rather hard-looking. |
10 |
| 11 | 312 |
"Does he seem like a man of Earth to you?" "No," she whispered. |
10 |
| 11 | 315 |
"Unlike those of Earth?" asked Flaminius. |
10 |
| 11 | 319 |
It was interesting to me that Virginia Kent, as a woman, was apparently intensely aware of certain differences between Gorean men and the men of Earth. |
10 |
| 11 | 320 |
I suspected that these differences clearly existed, but I would not, as Flaminius seemed to wish, have interpreted these differences as suggesting an inferiority of Earth stock. |
10 |
| 11 | 321 |
After all, Gorean males were surely, at one time at any rate, of the same stock as the men of Earth. |
10 |
| 11 | 323 |
I do think, of course, that the Gorean population tends to be more physically fit and mentally acute than that of Earth, but I would rate them provisionally rather than essentially superior in these respects; for example, Goreans live much out of doors and, as a very natural thing, celebrate the bea... |
10 |
| 12 | 173 |
For about fifteen days Virginia and Phyllis, while the other captive Earth girls had been removed to an iron pen, remained in the tiny cement, iron-gated cages, so constructed that the inmate cannot at any one time fully stretch her body; over a period of time this builds up a considerable amount of... |
10 |
| 15 | 187 |
Phyllis, it seemed, to Elizabeth's amusement, had actually, on Earth, been a rather serious, ardent feminist. |
10 |
| 15 | 325 |
"On Earth," said Elizabeth, "I do not think a woman would dare walk so beautifully". |
10 |
| 17 | 281 |
"Relius guards Virginia," the young slave girl from Earth informed collared Red Silk Lana. |
10 |
| 17 | 457 |
After the work of Caprus and myself was finished I would be able to join her, probably in Ko-ro-ba, for a time, before we arranged to return her to Earth; I assumed, naturally, she would wish to return to her native planet. |
10 |
| 17 | 459 |
And surely no woman bred to the civilities and courtesies of Earth would care to remain on a world so barbaric, a world perhaps beautiful but yet threatening and perilous, a world in which a woman is seldom permitted to be other than a woman, a world in which even the exalted Free Companion sleeps u... |
10 |
| 17 | 496 |
"To the Waiting Cells!" Virginia Kent, who had taught classics and ancient history in a college on Earth, leaped to her feet and, barefoot, a slave girl, raced from the room, hurrying to the Waiting Cells, whence at dawn, with others, she would be sent to the Curulean, where, in the evening, she wou... |
10 |
| 18 | 499 |
"We knew that Priest-Kings would suspect our House, as we intended that they should; so simple a ruse, and profitable a one, as selling barbarian Earth girls under the auspices of the House would guarantee their investigation. |
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| 19 | 9 |
It was on the evening of the fourth day of the Love Feast that Cernus decided to bring Elizabeth Cardwell, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, with his other barbarian slave girls kidnapped from Earth, before the buyers, not only of Ar but of all the cities of known, civilized Gor. |
10 |
| 19 | 166 |
Particularly, I suspected, were they waiting for the more than one hundred barbarians that Cernus had promised them, girls kidnapped from Earth to be Gorean pleasure slaves. |
10 |
| 21 | 296 |
The Gorean phalanx, like its predecessors of Earth, consisted of lines of massed spearmen, carrying spears of different lengths, forming a wall of points; it attacked on the run, preferably on a downgrade, a military avalanche, on its own terrain and under optimum conditions, invincible; the Torian ... |
10 |
| 23 | 189 |
In it I saw the rifle which had been brought from Earth. |
10 |
| 24 | 488 |
I took the free woman, Vella of Gor, Elizabeth Cardwell of Earth, in my arms. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 |
It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident... |
10 |
| 10 | 33 |
The Gorean foot is, in my estimation, just slightly longer than the Earth foot; based on the supposition that each of its ten Horts is roughly one and one-quarter inches long, I would give the Gorean foot a length of roughly twelve and one-half inches, Earth measure. |
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| 14 | 440 |
The fact that many women of Earth do not affect the veil is one of the reasons that many Goreans, who are familiar with the Second Knowledge, or have witnessed such women being brought in chains to the market, perhaps still in shreds of their Earth clothing, regard them as shameless, and as curvaceo... |
10 |
| 1 | 36 |
I myself, perhaps because I had been raised not on Gor, but on Earth, did not, fortunately in my opinion, suffer from these inhibiting prepossessions; I could use the long bow with, so to speak, no tincture of shame, no confusion of conscience, without the least injury to my self-esteem; I knew the ... |
10 |
| 5 | 57 |
She walked, head back, as though she might own the earth. |
10 |
| 5 | 177 |
But, as I watched, and the young men shouted, the dances became less stylized, and became more universal to woman, whether she be a drunken housewife in a suburb of a city of Earth or a jeweled slave in Port Kar, dances that spoke of them as women who want men, and will have them. |
10 |
| 5 | 180 |
The bantering of the young people in the morning, and the display of the girls in the evening, for in effect in the movements of the dance every woman is nude, have both, I expect, institutional roles to play in the life of the rence growers, significant roles analogous to the roles of dating, displ... |
10 |
| 8 | 494 |
I was no longer worthy of the love of two women I had known, Talena, who had once foolishly consented to be the Free Companion of one now proved to be ignoble and coward, and Vella, Elizabeth Cardwell, once of Earth, who had mistakenly granted her love to one worthy rather only of her contempt and s... |
10 |
| 9 | 173 |
Already she would doubtless be known to the Others, not Priest-Kings, who would challenge Priest-Kings for this world, and Earth. |
10 |
| 9 | 176 |
When at last I had brought her safely back to the Sardar I had thus told her I would arrange with Misk, the Priest-King, that she be returned to Earth. |
10 |
| 9 | 179 |
"You will be, for your own good, for your own safety and well-being, returned to the planet Earth, where you will no longer have to fear the perils of this world". |
10 |
| 9 | 181 |
"It is mine as much as yours! I love it and you cannot send me from it!" "You will be returned to the planet Earth," I had informed her. |
10 |
| 9 | 192 |
It is mine as much as yours!" It would be hard, certainly, for her to leave this world, beautiful, bright and green, but perilous, for the cities of Earth, to breathe again its air, to live in its cubicles, to move jostled among her uncaring crowds, to lose herself again in its mercantile grayness, ... |
10 |
| 9 | 201 |
"Tomorrow you will be returned to Earth. |
10 |
| 10 | 22 |
In a round ship this means she would be able, in Earth figures, to freight between approximately one hundred and one hundred and fifty tons below decks. |
10 |
| 10 | 23 |
I have calculated this figure from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth pounds. |
10 |
| 10 | 31 |
The Gorean foot, interestingly, is almost identical to the Earth foot. |
10 |
| 10 | 34 |
Normally, incidentally, in giving measures, the Earth foot, unless otherwise specified, should be understood. |
10 |
| 10 | 160 |
The average working day is ten Ahn, or about twelve Earth hours. |
10 |
| 10 | 245 |
I had called her Sandra, after a girl once known on Earth. |
10 |
| 11 | 271 |
It occurred to me then, with a shudder which I did not betray, that such a man could serve only the Others, not Priest-Kings, those Others, in the distant steel worlds, who surreptitiously and cruelly fought to gain this world and Earth for their own ends. |
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| 16 | 26 |
I myself would always be, doubtless, at least partly, of Earth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 709 |
I realized that even I, Elinor Brinton, as I had been on Earth, might have, on Earth, knelt before such a man, and, in this realization, I realized, again, that even on Earth I had been no more than a lonely, dissatisfied, pretentious liar, a masquerading slave, another slave without a master, posin... |
10 |
| 15 | 1460 |
I am of the planet Earth! I belong in New York City! I live on Park Avenue, in a great building! I am rich! I am educated! On my world I am an important person! I am of Earth, of Earth! You cannot treat me as a simple slave!" Then I put my head in my hands. |
10 |
| 11 | 1012 |
They bring us to heel, teach us to obey, and to serve, and deliciously! I wished that I was on Earth again, where slave girls might go free, live luxuriously, pamper themselves, and even, should it please them, command the weak men of Earth. |
10 |
| 11 | 1136 |
Smile at a man of Earth and he will be grateful; pretend to be willing to please a man of Earth and he will do anything for you. |
10 |
| 13 | 588 |
The grass rushed swiftly past below me, and I could not touch it with my feet, and then it fled from me, dropping away, and then suddenly, in the rushing air, as I twisted and turned, buffeted in the blasts of wind, a prisoner of the forces, the physics, of the braided leather rope and the accelerat... |
10 |
| 13 | 968 |
I knew then that I, Elinor Brinton, of Earth, would wear the degrading, locked metal collar of a Gorean slave girl, this man's, the collar of this brute who had captured me, and that I, Elinor Brinton, though once a free human female of Earth, would soon belong to him, totally, by all the rights and... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 584 |
"Gorean girls," she hissed, "may be slaves! Not the women of Earth! Earth women are different! They are better, finer, nobler, more refined, more delicate! You cannot make them common slaves!" "You regard yourself as better than Gorean girls?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 567 |
Since the Nest War the probes of aliens had grown more bold, even on Gor; they had little difficulty in taking female slaves on Earth; gold, exchangeable for materials essential to their enterprises, was well guarded on Earth; it could seldom be obtained in quantities without attracting the attentio... |
10 |
| 1 | 182 |
To Gorean morality many Earth moralities might ask, "Why so hard?" To these Earth moralities, the Gorean ethos might ask, "Why so soft?" I have sometimes thought that the Goreans might do well to learn something of tenderness, and, perhaps, that those of Earth might do well to learn something of har... |
10 |
| 10 | 569 |
I speculated that Earth governments, or some of them, were reasonably well aware that their planet must now be the locus of frequent alien slave raids; but why would the alien power not make itself known and openly demand their jewels among the female resources of the planet; the governments would n... |
10 |
| 1 | 181 |
Many Earth moralities encourage resignation and accommodation; Gorean morality is bent more toward conquest and defiance; many Earth moralities encourage tenderness, pity and gentleness, sweetness; Gorean morality encourages honor, courage, hardness and strength. |
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| 10 | 517 |
On Earth she had taught ancient history and classical languages at a small college on Earth; to many she might then have seemed a rather blue-stocking, forbidding girl; Gorean slavers, however, with greater perception perhaps then her fellow Earthlings, had seen her potential; she had been, one of s... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 385 |
On Gor, sooner or later, she would be forced to face this fact; she would be forced to look deeply within herself; to confront herself, perhaps for the first time, with candor, and uncompromising honesty; I wondered if, at that time, seeing herself, truly, she would go mad, or if, boldly, with joy, ... |
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| 26 | 634 |
"Only of Earth!" Then she said, "Release me, now! I demand it! You are only of Earth! Only of Earth! I simply demand to be released, Tarl! Now! Now!" I said nothing. |
10 |
| 1 | 81 |
The basic characteristic expected of a Gorean woman is, interestingly, femaleness; this is, I note, certainly not the basic characteristic requested of an Earth woman; indeed, femaleness in a woman of Earth, as I recalled, was societally discouraged, it complicating the politically expedient neuterl... |
10 |
| 1 | 83 |
Man, on Earth, had finally succeeded, after long centuries, in creating a society in which he had no essential place; he had, at last, built a house in which he could not live, in which he had left not one room suitable for human habitation; he called it a home; in it he was a stranger; his habitat,... |
10 |
| 4 | 57 |
About the water, little more than muddy, shallow ponds, save for the flahdahs, nothing grew; only dried, cracked earth, whitish and buckled, for a radius of more than a quarter of a pasang, could be found; what vegetation there might have been had been grazed off, even to the roots; one could place ... |
10 |
| 4 | 149 |
History on Earth, long ago, had taken a turning away from the body, from nature, from the needs of men and women, from genetically linked psychobiological realities; this turning away, ultimately and inevitably, had produced an unloved, exploited, polluted planet swarming with miserable populations ... |
10 |
| 5 | 793 |
What if she had gone to Earth? I thought of her briefly amidst the hypocrisies and pollutions of Earth, on the pavements, reflected in the shop windows, in miniskirts or tailored suits, seeming a woman and yet in that raging, mechanistic, politically pathological culture, brought about by the organi... |
10 |
| 7 | 515 |
Too, if he were of Earth, he might want some woman whom, on Earth, he had found irritating or troublesome. |
10 |
| 13 | 413 |
Too, some Goreans, those familiar with the Second Knowledge, occasionally have some inkling, though an imperfect one, of certain negativistic, antibiological cultural pathologies of Earth, in virtue of which they suspect that some of the Earth women may have formed incorrect views on certain matters... |
10 |
| 13 | 426 |
To be sure, these almost generic cruelties to which Earth girls in Gorean bondage so often found themselves subjected, such strictures, have tended to subside somewhat in the past year or two, as Earth girls become less exotic, and become a more familiar commodity in the markets, are more visible on... |
10 |
| 13 | 432 |
On Gor they are rescued from the political and sexual deserts of Earth; branded, collared, dressed revealingly, they find themselves for the first time in their lives, though embonded, far more free than they could ever have believed possible on Earth; gone is the ennui, the vacuity; on Gor they fin... |
10 |
| 14 | 98 |
The same girl who, joyously, would lasciviously writhe at the feet of the free male, begging him for his slightest touch, would often, confronted with male slaves, treat them with the contempt and coldness commonly accorded the men of Earth by their frustrated, haughty females; I have sometimes wond... |
10 |
| 24 | 528 |
Why should I permit her even a shred of slave silk to hide behind? She seemed desperately determined, of course, still, before me, a former man of Earth, however foolishly, to present the postures, pretenses, and attitudes of a free Earth woman, apparently hoping that I would somehow commiserate wit... |
10 |
| 24 | 806 |
"Men on Earth," she cried, "will be dethroned by law!" "Earth has a complex and intricate political history," I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 495 |
Perhaps Vella had thought she would be dealing with a pliant, manipulable man of Earth; but then not even all men of Earth are such; did she not know that; they, the girls, on the other hand, given their different cultural background, did not expect vacillation and weakness from a man, but what they... |
10 |
| 26 | 514 |
To be sure, she was a woman from Earth, and I was a man from Earth. |
10 |
| 26 | 1208 |
Further, Gor was the true prize of the planets rotating about the sun, not the Earth, for, in the name of rights and liberty, and business, the fools of Earth, confused by the rhetoric of law and morality, shielding short-sighted greed and madness, had stood aside, permitting the poisoning of the ai... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 82 |
The original beans, I suppose, had been brought, like certain other Gorean products, from Earth; it is not impossible, of course, that the opposite is the case, that black wine is native to Gor and that the origin of Earth's coffee beans is Gorean; I regard this as unlikely, however, because black w... |
10 |
| 13 | 213 |
I did not know my wrist or ankle size in Earth measurements, for such measurements are not important for a girl on Earth as they are on Gor, but the interior circumference of the number-two wrist ring is 5 horts and the interior circumference of the number-two ankle ring is 7 horts; thus, my wrist s... |
10 |
| 20 | 579 |
Suddenly it had occurred to me that I could become free! When again might such an opportunity present itself? I was from Earth! Surely I was not so contemptible and despicable that I cared to remain a slave! Surely it was wrong that a collar should be on me! Perhaps on others, but not on me! Not on ... |
10 |
| 4 | 1083 |
He had understood the slave girl better than she had understood herself; he had doubtless had experience with many girls; perhaps he had even owned Earth girls before; it did not seem likely to me that I would have been the only wench of Earth brought to the chains of this world; there had perhaps b... |
10 |
| 9 | 933 |
How grievously had the women of Earth been slandered! Did they not know I was a woman of Earth? Of course they knew! How casually, how unthinkably, they spoke in the presence of a slave! But I wondered if it were true. |
10 |
| 9 | 1018 |
Perhaps the most significant difference between the man of Earth and the Gorean is that the Gorean has a Home Stone, and the man of Earth does not. |
10 |
| 9 | 1673 |
I am Judy Thornton! I am an Earth girl! This cannot be happening to me! But I knew I was no longer Judy Thornton, and I knew I was no longer of Earth. |
10 |
| 9 | 1926 |
There is little on Earth to prepare the poor Earth girl for the lust and desire with which she will find herself viewed on Gor. |
10 |
| 12 | 670 |
Had I been sold on Earth, of course, I would have counted as such a girl, a valuable slave, lovely, articulate, literate, highly educated, and such; on Earth, I would doubtless have brought my master a good price; on Gor, however, I was only another piece of illiterate collar meat. |
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| 13 | 96 |
I had received a gift which on Earth could not be purchased by the riches of the wealthiest men, a gift which was beyond the reach of Earth's mightiest millionaires, which even the billionaires of my planet could not buy, for it did not exist there. |
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| 15 | 58 |
You are of Earth!" "This is not Earth," she said. |
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| 18 | 64 |
I wonder if those of Earth, should any of Earth ever read this, can begin to comprehend the categoricality of the bondage in which the Gorean slave girl is held. |
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| 21 | 179 |
To an Earth girl, accustomed to the hypocrisy and weakness of the men of Earth, their shame, their inhibitions and pretenses, the Gorean male, in his honesty, his power, his lust, his manhood, is a hurricane of joy. |
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| 22 | 360 |
The very sight of a female slave, particularly as they are likely to be garbed, and must move, would be likely to stun a man of Earth; nothing has prepared him to believe that such women exist; one of the things that would be most likely to startle him, if not trouble him, perhaps cause him initial ... |
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| 27 | 19 |
"And you are of Earth," he said, "only a wench of Earth, collared and enslaved". |
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| 2 | 366 |
The man of Earth thinks of the world as being essentially dead; the Gorean thinks of his world as being essentially alive; one utilizes the metaphor of the blind machine, the other the metaphor of the living being; doubtless reality exceeds all metaphors; in the face of reality doubtless all metapho... |
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| 3 | 27 |
Honor is important to Goreans, in a way that those of Earth might find hard to understand; for example, those of Earth find it natural that men should go to war over matters of gold and riches, but not honor; the Gorean, contrariwise, is more willing to submit matters of honor to the adjudication of... |
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| 3 | 643 |
That Earth-girl names are thought of on Gor as slave names is an indication of the regard in which Gorean men hold Earth girls. |
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| 11 | 497 |
"From Earth, from Earth—an Earth girl". |
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| 1 | 52 |
She had been brought to the house of Samos still in the inexplicable and barbarous garments of Earth, in particular, in the imitation-boy costume, the denim trousers and flannel shirt of the contemporary Earth girl, pathologically conditioned, for economic and historical reasons, to deny and subvert... |
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| 1 | 73 |
The first of these commonly occurs in certain of the Gorean enclaves on Earth, which serve as headquarters for agents of Priest-Kings; the second tends to occur in the lairs of Kurii agents on Earth; the first brand consists of a locked collar and, ascending diagonally above it, extending to the rig... |
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| 1 | 574 |
"One was temporarily lost upon the planet Earth some three to four thousand years ago, it being taken from a slain Kur commander by a man named Gyges, a herdsman, who used its power to usurp the throne of a country called Lydia, a country which then existed on Earth". |
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| 16 | 24 |
From where I stood I could see hundreds of men, workmen and askaris, and many rafts, some weighted with supplies, others with logs and tools, some with mud and earth we had dug out of the swampy terrain, mud and earth which would be used to bank the flanking barricades, that the area in which we wor... |
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| 31 | 84 |
Am I not pleasing? What is it that you would have me do? Must I crawl to you, as the slave I am, and beg your touch? Do you not understand that I cannot admit men are my masters, for I am a woman of Earth? Do you not understand that I cannot crawl to you, as the slave I am, and beg your touch, for I... |
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| 31 | 88 |
Why are the men of Gor different from those of Earth? Is it because poisoned minds were not brought to Gor? Is it that it is only a matter of chance, that on Earth and not Gor, due to a chance dynamic or a particular situation, the consequences of which were not understood, civilization developed no... |
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| 32 | 274 |
"Though you are an Earth woman?" "Yes, though I am an Earth woman, Master," she said. |
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| 57 | 253 |
"No," she said, "a man such as you could never have been of Earth!" "I was once of Earth," I said, "long ago". |
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| 1 | 345 |
Could it not be that the Gorean books are, in effect, a way of preparing the Earth and its peoples for the revelation of the true existence of a Counter-Earth, should it sometime be expedient to make its presence known?" "Of course not," I said. |
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| 7 | 524 |
Indeed, what was the pseudomasculinization of many of the women of Earth, in clothing and mental garb, but a hysterical attempt to deny their sexuality? What did the women of Earth fear? That a true acknowledgment of their deepest sexual needs would lead them to kneel at the feet of a master? Lola l... |
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| 12 | 170 |
"You have had your moment of sport, Jason," she said, "pretending, as is occasionally the wont of the males of Earth, to be a man, but it is now time to remember what you truly are, only a weakling of Earth, one fit to be only a woman's slave". |
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| 13 | 810 |
I wondered if Gorean men knew something interesting about the women of Earth that the men of Earth did not know. |
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| 21 | 91 |
Neither Pamela nor Bonnie, incidentally, were Earth girls, though they wore Earth-girl names. |
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| 21 | 366 |
Neither Pamela nor Bonnie, as I have mentioned, were Earth girls, though they both wore Earth-girl names. |
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| 32 | 343 |
"You are of Earth," she said, "of Earth!" "No more," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 24 | 247 |
"Now I have it! I am the only Earth girl in the holding! They told you I was from Earth, didn't they! You are not familiar with Earth girls. |
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| 24 | 481 |
She was from Earth! But what if, even though she were from Earth, she were a true slave, as in accord with her own avowals? Could such a thing, she from Earth, be possible, even thinkable? I scarcely dared even consider this possibility, for then she, a slave, could be mine! I determined, cruelly, t... |
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| 1 | 399 |
"I was thinking," I said, regarding the girl, "that the men of Earth, if they could but see an Earth woman as you are now, would scream with pleasure". |
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| 4 | 418 |
Men might think that I was an Earth girl, or one of those girls like an Earth girl, and was thus given such a name!" I smiled. |
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| 9 | 129 |
What fools are the men of Earth, I thought, for the woman on the block was an Earth woman, to let their women off so lightly. |
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| 11 | 212 |
"Do these responses," she asked, "startle you, coming as they do from a woman once of Earth?" "There seems little in you now of Earth," I said. |
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| 11 | 225 |
Would you not like some delicious Earth woman as your total slave? If so, how are you so different from the brutes of Gor, who do with us as they wish? It is not our fault if, for whatever reasons, the men of Earth seem determined to turn us into men, and deny to us our precious and ancient natures. |
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| 21 | 16 |
One might mention in passing that some Goreans find it difficult to believe that the Earth girls brought to Gor were not already collared on Earth. |
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| 21 | 17 |
How could such a woman, so feminine and beautiful, not have been a slave? Surely the men of Earth are not such fools as to allow such desirability out of their collars? Do they not wish to own them? And if they do wish to own them, why do they not do so? A second reason has to do with the readiness ... |
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| 21 | 29 |
Thus, some Goreans, denied what is called "the second knowledge," who do not realize that Earth is a different planet, but think of it rather as simply some remote district, suppose that "girls from Earth" are simply slave booty similar to that obtained in other far places, all on their own world. |
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| 21 | 192 |
"Is she so special to you because she is from Earth, or because you knew her from Earth?" she asked. |
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| 21 | 281 |
The readiness and excitability, indeed, the almost helpless sexual vulnerability of the slave girl, is something for which the men of Earth, whose experience has been limited to the free females of Earth, are totally unprepared. |
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| 22 | 101 |
This was not Earth, with its negativities, confusions, refusals, entanglements and hypocrisies! This was not Earth. |
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| 22 | 144 |
So why then should she not be in mine? But something in my heart cried out that she, the lovely Miss Henderson, could not be a slave, not she! I must deny it! Was she not from Earth, from Earth? But I could no longer deny one thing—that I wanted Miss Beverly Henderson, that I wanted to own he... |
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| 24 | 264 |
From my own experience I did not think Earth girls were juicier puddings, so to speak, than Gorean girls, nor, really, that Gorean girls tended to be juicier puddings than Earth girls. |
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| 24 | 602 |
"I am an Earth girl! Master is still curious about Earth girls! He wants to know if we know how to give pleasures to masters". |
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| 24 | 607 |
"I will show you now, Master," she said, "what truly an Earth girl can do!" I lay there then and wondered if ever other men of Earth had experienced such pleasures, if ever they had had such pleasures from their females. |
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| 24 | 613 |
Petty, arrogant, smug, cold, proud, inert, frustrated, the women of Earth trod the sands of their native world; the men of Earth, I thought, did not begin to suspect the gold into which such pain and dross could be transmuted; how long, I wondered, before such creatures were brought naked to their k... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 20 | 1640 |
Let it be gone! This is Gor! Gor! What was she to you, that tart I once was, dear Master, that you should have deferred to her? Did you never once point to the floor at your feet, and tell her to kneel? Why not? What mistakes the men of Earth make with the women of Earth! It is no wonder the women o... |
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| 8 | 319 |
Briefly put, the second reason that Earth girls make such astoundingly desirable slaves is that they have been, in their Earth years, subjected, in effect, to sexual and emotional starvation. |
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| 17 | 457 |
"Do you admit to me, now, personally, now that we are alone," I said, "that you are a slave?" "Do not ask me, a woman of Earth, to admit to a man of Earth that I am a slave!" she begged. |
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| 17 | 460 |
"Yes, Master!" "Admit it then to me," I said, "for now you are no longer a woman of Earth, nor am I now any longer a man of Earth". |
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| 18 | 164 |
Two men, it seemed, she loved, he whom she had served in the holding of Policrates, he who had treated her with the insolence commonly accorded an Earth-girl slave by Gorean masters, and he whom she had served on the stones of the Street of the Writhing Slave, he who had treated her as a full and lo... |
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| 18 | 274 |
This was a gratification which few men of Earth had obtained, I speculated, from the women of Earth. |
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| 18 | 613 |
Too, though he knew that I had once been of Earth, he did not handle me as a woman of Earth, with respect and dignity, as I expected, but rather as what I now am, a Gorean slut, an embonded, rightless slave. |
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| 19 | 297 |
"Please give me your collar! I know I am of Earth, and am thus unworthy of a Gorean slave collar, but still I beg it! And are we not put in them, and kept in them? Is it not why we are brought here, to wear your collars? Is it not right for us? How fortunate we are, to be accepted by the men of Gor ... |
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| 19 | 553 |
"Because I am a woman of Earth, and you are a man of Earth!" she said. |
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| 19 | 554 |
"Men of Earth have often held women of Earth as slaves," I said. |
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| 19 | 563 |
"Then the fact that I am a woman of Earth and you are a man of Earth need not protect me," she said. |
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| 19 | 568 |
"That I am a man of Earth, and you a woman of Earth," I said. |
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| 19 | 624 |
"As an Earth man could own an Earth woman, you could own me on Gor?" she asked. |
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| 19 | 922 |
Indeed, it is doubtless easier for the Earth girl for, on Earth, she is subject to a number of concealed bondages, whereas on Gor she encounters an open, honest bondage, and one natural to, and indigenous to, the human species, the subjection of the female of the species to the male of the species. |
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| 19 | 1152 |
"You will make no concession for me, as I am from Earth, and you are from Earth, and you knew me?" "No," I said. |
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| 21 | 329 |
"I could give you the name of a Gorean girl," I said, "but since you are of Earth origin, and are a low slave, it seems more appropriate that you be given the name of an Earth girl". |
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| 21 | 414 |
"And doubtless Master is well aware of the dangers of a slave wearing an Earth-girl name on Gor?" "Certainly," I said, "and particularly if one is an Earth-girl slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 544 |
She spoke almost as though we might not be on Earth, somewhere on Earth. |
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| 6 | 516 |
Never on Earth had I felt it as keenly and deeply, never on Earth had I been so deeply sensitive to it, so much aware of its needs, delicacy and depth. |
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| 26 | 315 |
Why had men on Earth, I wondered, allowed themselves to be tricked out of their sovereignty by man-hating and vicious women, abetted by frustrated, weakling males? When will they take us again in hand, I wondered, and own us? But the men on Earth, with few exceptions, I feared, were lost to manhood. |
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| 31 | 529 |
He was not a man of Earth, or a typical man of Earth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1884 |
"And I am of Earth! I am from Earth! You are from Earth! We are both from Earth! You could not for a moment be thinking—!" "Fetch a slave whip," I said. |
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| 25 | 1007 |
There was no reason as far as I could tell that the men of Gor, if acculturated similarly to those of Earth, if subjected to the same debilitating indoctrinations, the same negativistic educations, the same unnatural engineerings, the same calculated underminings of manhood, the same inconsistent co... |
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| 25 | 355 |
One difference between Gorean sexual tastes and those of Earth, I might mention, is that Gorean sexual tastes, at least in my opinion, are much broader and more tolerant than those of Earth, or at least those of Western Civilization, and tend to run toward the statistical norms of the human female. |
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| 25 | 967 |
I gather she had not known that men from Earth, or once from Earth, could look in such a way upon women. |
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| 25 | 1952 |
I wondered if she, an Earth girl, going about her business on Earth, had ever suspected that she would one day be so dancing on Gor, as a nude, collared slave. |
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| 25 | 1990 |
"Do you dare, slave," I asked, "to think that you can behave toward me as a typical Earth female behaves toward a man of Earth?" "No," she said. |
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| 25 | 1991 |
"No!" "Do you think you can treat me as the typical females of Earth treat the men of Earth?" I asked. |
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| 26 | 1702 |
An interesting difference between the Gorean woman enslaved and the Earth girl enslaved is that the loss of the veil may strike the Gorean woman as calamitous in a way that the Earth girl may find incomprehensible. |
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| 26 | 1704 |
The Earth girl usually finds this sort of thing, the shelter and mystique of the veil, and such, hard to understand, accustomed as she is to going about with her own face bared publicly, a behavior which a Gorean woman, particularly of high caste, would be likely to find scandalous, and which would ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 653 |
How absurd it seemed! Did he not know that women could do anything with impunity, that no matter what we did, even if it were to bring about the destruction of a man's manhood and the ruination of his life, we were never punished? And yet this man seemed ready to punish me for so little as a lie, or... |
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| 6 | 564 |
I could belong to anyone, to anyone who could pay for me! Surely that was wrong for a woman of Earth! How could it have come about that I was now only a lowly slave? I had been a woman of Earth! Of Earth! How could it have come about then that I was now, on this world, only a collared animal, stripp... |
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| 14 | 277 |
To an Earth girl, on Earth, at least, this might not seem to be a matter of great import, but I was not on Earth, and here, I knew, such things, somehow, rationally or not, had great import. |
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| 3 | 225 |
Oh, I would dance well! The masters, as I dreamed of them, of course, and as they figured in my fancies, were not the men of Earth, or, at least, not men like most of those of Earth. |
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| 6 | 183 |
How many times, I wondered, had a man on Earth, irritated with an Earth woman, or girl, been tempted to seize her and, say, pull gum from her mouth, or straighten her hair, or adjust her halter, or tell her to straighten her body or to change her posture, or to sit or kneel in a certain way, but, of... |
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| 6 | 273 |
I think all of us were terribly frightened, and perhaps the Gorean girls more than the Earth girls, for they surely must have known more of what was going on, or was involved, than we naive Earth women, so new to our collars and chains. |
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| 8 | 394 |
I gathered from some of their remarks, somewhat indelicate remarks, scarcely fit for the ears of an Earth woman, or one who had once been from Earth, that under true male attentions I might prove to be utterly helpless. |
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| 11 | 218 |
Perhaps what is done in slave dance on Gor would count as "exotic dance" on Earth, but, if we are thinking of the actual kinds of dances performed, then there is much in slave dance, for example, story dances, which are seldom, if ever, included in "exotic dance" on Earth, and there are forms of dan... |
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| 11 | 885 |
I wanted to show them, too, women such as Tupita and Sita, what a woman of Earth could do to their Gorean masters, how, she, too, could excite them, and twist them with torments of desire, and make them gasp and scream with pleasure! Too, in my anger at having been abandoned by Teibar, who had been ... |
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| 13 | 894 |
My yielding would not be of the sort of yieldings approved of on Earth, those mild, meaningless ripples of sensation, indicative of acceptable congenialities, the most that many of Earth, it seems, could manage, but would be rather the result of his will and power, of his enforcements and determinat... |
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| 20 | 40 |
That sort of thing is, I think, more likely to be done on Earth than Gor, and, on Earth, it seems to be practiced most frequently, interestingly enough, not on slaves, but free women. |
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| 32 | 172 |
"Do you really think, too," he said, "I picked you out from hundreds on Earth, and selected you, screening you according to my own tastes and criteria, as my final and most exquisite Earth capture merely to bring you here to be a free woman?" "No, Master!" I said. |
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| 34 | 431 |
How glorious it was that he had made me his slave! How few women of Earth, I thought, had known the joy of being taken in hand and mastered! How I pitied the women of Earth, so confused and unhappy, so miserable and not knowing why! How fitting, and marvelous, I thought, that I, on this world a prop... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 12 |
The name 'Shirley' is an Earth-girl name but I suspected that she was not an Earth girl. |
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| 16 | 295 |
Along these lines, it might be noted that Earth women, brought to Gor as slaves, soon realize they are no longer amongst the men of Earth. |
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| 21 | 829 |
One common difference between rape on Earth and rape on Gor is that rape on Earth is usually over with quickly, and is unlikely to be succeeded by social and legal consequences to the enjoyed woman, whereas rape on Gor may prove to be, and often is, a prelude to enslavement. |
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| 21 | 951 |
They have then escaped the sexual desert of Earth and have found themselves brought into the radiant, glorious reality of a world such as the Earth once was, a natural world where the males are men, and the females theirs. |
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| 21 | 1082 |
Why are the men of Gor so different from the men of Earth? Why are they not diffident, not apologetic? Why do they not turn their eyes aside, lest they cause the smallest modicum of unease to the fair? Why do they not pretend not to notice? Why are they not like the typical man of Earth? But soon, a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 698 |
The names 'Susan' and 'Jane' are Earth-girl names, but this did not mean that these girls had to be Earth girls. |
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| 37 | 176 |
Some of Earth, I seem to recall this from Earth, long ago, who understand, apparently, absolutely nothing of these matters, seemed to have a preconceived notion, doubtless politically motivated, that the slave girl is supposed to be a worn, spent, dismal, starved, overworked, unhappy creature, spend... |
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| 45 | 103 |
It is not, incidentally, that Earth girls are better than Gorean girls, or Gorean girls better than Earth girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 725 |
How utterly marvelous, again I thought, are the Gorean females! How utterly different they are from the women of Earth! How impossible it would be for a mere, inert female of Earth to match them! Poor, pathetic, impoverished, deprived men of Earth, I thought. |
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| 3 | 700 |
How utterly marvelous are the Gorean females! How utterly different they are from the women of Earth! How impossible it would be for a female of Earth to match them! I watched the dancer then move to the next fellow, and turn about. |
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| 19 | 233 |
"Strange, then, Master," she said, "that we should meet in this reality, I, once a woman of Earth, as now no more than a kneeling slave before you, once a man of Earth". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 730 |
How else could I be summoned, or have it written on a shard drawn at random from an urn? I had not been caressed in days! Surely someone must have mercy on a kajira! I supposed the name, as I was an Earth girl, would be an Earth-girl name. |
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| 11 | 574 |
In other cases, it seems clear that wearing an Earth-girl name, whether one which was once her own, now put on her as a slave name, or another Earth-girl name, now also, of course, only a slave name, can have similar effects on a girl from my world, she now recognizing herself as, and being, in effe... |
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| 11 | 967 |
She seemed to hate Earth, and those from Earth. |
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| 16 | 158 |
"You are going to dance for me, Earth woman," he said, menacingly, "and as what you are, and what you are only, an Earth-girl slave before her Gorean master". |
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| 22 | 29 |
We want him to be jealous of us, and fiercely possessive of us; we want to be important to him; we do not want to be ignored or neglected; we do not want to be taken for granted, or just be "there," perhaps almost unnoticed, as are so many "wives" of Earth; the slave, I assure you, receives a great ... |
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| 34 | 154 |
But then, too, on Earth, do not some men buy a certain car, or a certain house, or a certain painting, and such, largely to impress others? Too, on Earth some men will, in effect, purchase wives, so to speak, though the "exchange of coin" is less obvious. |
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| 39 | 16 |
Accordingly it was with a particular pleasure that he made me, a woman of Earth, now taken from Earth, now collared, now in Gorean bondage, throb, and kick, and spasm in his arms, squirming, and crying out, leaping and writhing, gasping, and moaning, licking and kissing, a ravished, subdued, begging... |
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| 45 | 46 |
"Barbarian slut," he said, "Earth-girl slave, Earth-girl thrall!" He knew then that I was not native to this world. |
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| 46 | 118 |
"Do not treat me as might a man of Earth a woman of Earth," I begged. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 635 |
I could show him how a woman of Earth, yes, of Earth, if trained, can dance before men! I could show him how a woman of Earth, as much as any Gorean woman, can drive a man mad with passion! It might be mentioned that the errand just described was merely the first errand of its type which was require... |
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| 27 | 2421 |
She wondered if, on Earth, such men, in their enclaves on her old world, kept slaves, either women of Earth, enslaved, or women brought to Earth from Gor. |
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| 29 | 179 |
"I am an Earth woman! You cannot whip an Earth woman! Earth women are never whipped! We are never punished, no matter what we do! Even if we ruin lives, and destroy men, we are never punished!" "Embonded women do not ruin lives and destroy men," he said. |
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| 30 | 50 |
Some Goreans seem to prefer Earth women as slaves; others prefer native Gorean women; I would not think it would make much difference; they are all women; doubtless it depends on the particular woman and man, on the particular slave and master, on the particular "chemistry," so to speak; on the othe... |
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| 30 | 154 |
Did they not know she was a woman of Earth? That such things were not done to women of Earth? And then the lash had struck again and she was no more a woman of Earth but only a punished Gorean slave girl. |
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| 11 | 52 |
His Earth name is not to be included in this narrative, no more than that name which had once been Ellen's on Earth. |
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| 11 | 247 |
Perhaps its furnishings, and such, had been brought from Earth? Everything was much as it might have been on Earth. |
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| 15 | 578 |
But he could not be serious! What could he have in mind! Surely he could not be doing this to her, not to her, not to her! Had he no respect for her? What of her dignity? Was he not of Earth? Could he not remember Earth? "Please, Master!" she wept. |
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| 15 | 580 |
"We are of Earth," she cried, "we are both of Earth!" "No longer," he said. |
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| 17 | 1198 |
And it is on that world, Gor, not Earth, this fearful, severe, biologically honest world, so far from Earth, that I find myself a slave! I cannot be a slave, she thought, wildly. |
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| 17 | 1201 |
Where was his gentleness, his tenderness, his sensitivity? Surely he could not know my crimes against men on my own world, how I foolishly, deluded by the madness of propaganda, attempted to abet their destruction? Doubtless I have much to pay for! I wonder if the men of Earth will one day make the ... |
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| 18 | 170 |
She did not know if this was because those of Earth, both men and women, tended to live unwittingly in eccentric, unnatural cultural prisons, products of monstrous, lingering historicalities, denying themselves and their natures, submitting mindlessly, uncritically, to pathological, stunting, life-s... |
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| 22 | 345 |
How could I, only from Earth, compete with a Gorean woman? But then, she told herself, humans on Gor are surely of Earth origin. |
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| 24 | 284 |
And here, on this world, she, a woman of Earth, a woman of education and sophistication, that behind her now, would soon be thrust through silken curtains, sent to torchlit sand, to dance barefoot, belled, silked and bangled, as no more than an adorned slave before barbarians! I am from Earth, she t... |
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| 24 | 352 |
Well, noble Mirus, of Earth, so be it! But I think you do find this Earth slut of interest, regardless of what you might claim! Do you think a slave is not aware of the meaning of a master's glances?" Ellen stepped back. |
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| 24 | 490 |
Going about so brazenly, is it not their intention to offer themselves for the scrutiny of slavers; is it not a way to court the collar, to beg for it? Certainly Gorean slavers on Earth are grateful for the custom, as it considerably facilitates their assessment of the slave wares of Earth. |
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| 26 | 437 |
Doubtless this is what had been done with Tutina, on Earth, or before bringing her to Earth. |
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| 26 | 511 |
"Do you think I do not know what the women of Earth do to the men of Earth?" he asked. |
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| 26 | 908 |
"I beg to give you such pleasures, and a thousand other intimate, and beautiful, and precious pleasures, my Master, no limit of pleasure for you, for I am yours, but I beg you, do not ask me to so serve! Not others! Recall that I was not only a woman of Earth, but a lady, a lady of Earth!" She hoped... |
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| 26 | 1135 |
He is Selius Arconious, my master! How strange she then thought that I, of Earth, should be here, on another world, a far, beautiful world, one many of Earth do not even know exists, kneeling on its grass, naked, back-braceleted, covered with a blanket, dismissed from attention, unable to see, waiti... |
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| 26 | 1701 |
"What do you know of Earth women, or of the feelings of Earth women?" she asked. |
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| 26 | 1743 |
Perhaps an Ahn later, shortly before the first rays of Tor-tu-Gor, Light-Upon-the-Home-Stone, the common star of Earth and Gor, began to glimmer in the east, rising there as it does on Earth, they rose together, he suddenly to his feet, casting the blanket aside, she quickly to her knees, at his thi... |
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| 27 | 2406 |
How horrified might have been her former feminist sisters of Earth, but they were not collared on another planet, brazenly tunicked, and the tunic now and again thrust up almost to their breasts, grasped in the mud and put to the service of masters! Or would they have been thrilled, and envy her the... |
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| 27 | 2416 |
She wondered if he, doubtless of Earth, aware perhaps only of the frigid, defensive, inert, confused, unhappy, unawakened women of Earth, had seen anything like this before, the responses of a collared slave. |
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| 28 | 27 |
She did not doubt, if only from her own experiences on Earth, the depth and pervasiveness, the readiness, of female sexual needs in the women of Earth. |
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| 28 | 37 |
Whereas the men of Earth, like the women of Earth, are commonly starved for sex, and are, consequently, usually the most obvious or most public victims of unsatisfied sexual need, there is little parallel to this amongst Gorean males. |
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| 28 | 48 |
Now, let us also suppose that on Earth there is a particular woman, a desirable female of interest to him, who, in a typical Earth fashion, has frustrated him and has spurned his attentions. |
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| 28 | 163 |
So he was an Earth man and she was an Earth woman, but here, on Gor, it was he who stood, and was perhaps even of the caste of Warriors, and she who knelt. |
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| 29 | 182 |
"We are never punished! Such things are not done to Earth women!" "You are not now on Earth," he said. |
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| 29 | 186 |
"Is it true," he asked, "that Earth women, on Earth, are never whipped?" "I do not know," she wept. |
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| 30 | 30 |
Then Ellen's thoughts drifted to Earth, tragic Earth, and its negativities, and eccentricities. |
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| 30 | 537 |
"In my belly there burns slave fire!" "In the belly of an Earth woman?" "In the belly of one once a woman of Earth, but now only a branded, collared Gorean slave!" "I see," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | 104 |
I am from Earth and such things cannot be done to me! Do you think I am no more than a Gorean girl, some simple slave, to be put without a second thought beneath the lash? I am from Earth, from Earth!" "Do not fear," he said, shaking out the blades of the supple tool. |
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| 1 | 531 |
They soon learn they are no longer on Earth, dealing with the men of Earth, but are on Gor, at the mercy of Gorean men. |
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| 2 | 238 |
To be fair to Cabot, however, rumors had it, at least, that he might have had some connection with that Venetian John Cabot, or Giovanni Caboto, a Fifteenth-Century (Earth Chronology) mercenary sea captain who sailed for England, in the time of Henry VII, and was the first European after several Vik... |
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| 77 | 87 |
"As on Earth they do not?" "Yes," said Cabot, "as on Earth they do not". |
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| 78 | 50 |
Could you be from Earth?" "No," laughed Corinna, "I am Gorean, and many of my Gorean collar sisters would look down on me for even speaking to an Earth-girl slave. |
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| 79 | 53 |
"You," he said, "a woman of Earth, desire to give pleasure to a master?" "Surely that is not unusual for a woman of Earth," she said. |
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| 79 | 139 |
"I am from Earth!" "From Earth," he said, "you should be clearly aware, here, as would you be on Gor, that you are only a slave". |
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| 79 | 167 |
Cabot thought that many of Earth might have regarded such as barbarians, but they, Goreans, had much the same views of those of Earth. |
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| 81 | 34 |
"Earth-girl slaves," said Peisistratus, "are normally sedated on Earth, brought to collection points, stored in such capsules for the journey to Gor, disembarked unconscious on Gor, and then brought unconscious to the pens. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 24 |
Gor is somewhat smaller than Earth but having missed the cataclysm that drew, say, a sixth of Earth into space to form her magnificent single moon, leaving behind a mighty basin to become in time a vast ocean, her land area is quite possibly more extensive than that of Earth. |
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| 1 | 454 |
"I do not wish to be free! But you must free me! You are not Gorean! You are of Earth, of Earth! You have no choice but to free me!" "I do not understand," I said. |
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| 1 | 457 |
"You are of Earth, of Earth!" she said. |
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| 2 | 22 |
They, of course, as most Goreans, would be well aware of the existence of Earth girls, from the markets, if from no other source, but they, as many Goreans, might suppose that Earth was somewhere on Gor, though doubtless far away. |
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| 3 | 66 |
Although, as I have suggested, she was not unattractive, it must be understood that this was in an Earth sort of way, the way in which many Earth females may be accounted attractive, attractive more in the sense of what they might become, how perhaps they might be, rather than in the sense of what t... |
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| 4 | 38 |
Too, they could be rewarded on Gor, if not on Earth, where curiosity might be aroused, and in ways which would be unlikely on Earth, but appealing to males. |
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| 5 | 355 |
Let her, a proud, insolent free woman of Earth, used to the men of Earth, such as Pertinax, men whom she despised and might affront with impunity, and upon occasion, in virtue doubtless of wealth and authority, command, have to behave before me, and before Pertinax, as a mere slave. |
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| 9 | 304 |
"Perhaps an Earth which has too long ignored certain truths," he said, "an Earth in sorry need of recollection, of reformation". |
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| 10 | 218 |
The acceptability of such garmentures to the Earth female is commonly taken by the Gorean, who tends to be a bit prudish in such matters, save where slaves are concerned, as evidence of the suitability of Earth females for the collar. |
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| 10 | 221 |
Needless to say, as well, the nature of much of Earth lingerie confirms this view of the Earth female in Gorean eyes. |
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| 10 | 449 |
For example, he would presumably have attempted to duplicate the diffident, half-apologetic body language of the man of Earth, and the subdued discourse of the typical, reduced male of Earth, culturally engineered to betray his natural power and manhood. |
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| 10 | 597 |
"It need not be clothing of Earth, expensive, well-tailored, tasteful, elegant, fashionable, chic, and such, such as I was accustomed to on Earth, for I well understand that such might be difficult to obtain here, but, you understand, it should be concealing, ample, and decorous, perhaps robes of co... |
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| 15 | 307 |
In them they enjoyed a medley of fulfillments and gratifications which might have been not only denied to them on Earth, mindlessly execrated, and such, but might even have been incomprehensible to them on Earth. |
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| 17 | 68 |
And unto this mass, from above, were hurled dozens of weighted nets, which tangled the birds, and riders, and dozens, half crippled, unable to fly, fell brokenly toward the earth, and some riders freed themselves of the safety straps and tried to leap to the saddle rings of other birds, and some fai... |
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| 22 | 169 |
Such awakenings, too, may characterize Earth girls brought to Gor for the markets, as they are commonly sedated in tiered slave capsules for the journey from Earth to Gor. |
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| 22 | 546 |
"What is wrong with you? You are of Earth! You are a woman of Earth! Where is your pride, your dignity! Be ashamed of yourself. |
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| 27 | 136 |
I saw then that he wished, or seemed to wish, to see the females native to Gor in one way, and those native to Earth in another way, those of Gor as natural slaves, fit for the collar, ideally to be embonded, and those of Earth not, despite their absolute identity as human females. |
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| 27 | 142 |
In any event, the Earth-girl slave, having been starved of her sex on Earth, taught by a pathological, adversarial culture to fear, belittle, resent, and suspect it, discovers on Gor to her astonishment and elation that her sex is here not only of interest, but of inestimable importance and value. |
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| 27 | 146 |
I doubted Pertinax would have his rather disparaging comparison of the Gorean woman and the woman of Earth, in terms of dignity and such, had he ever met a Gorean free woman, particularly of high caste, compared to whom the free woman of Earth, less free than merely not yet collared, would be though... |
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| 28 | 324 |
Earth-girl names, it might be noted, are commonly accounted slave names on Gor, and may be put upon Gorean girls as well as slaves harvested from the fields of Earth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 1381 |
"I may be from Earth," she said, "but I have learned here, as I suspected on Earth, that women are slaves, and that I am a woman, and a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 780 |
She was a mere barbarian, a scion of a primitive culture, and I was a civilized woman of Earth, of the upper classes, young, beautiful, educated, intelligent, sensitive, well-bred, refined, now somehow inexplicably entrapped in a barbarian world, a world where I was denied the protection of the law,... |
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| 8 | 803 |
Anything could be done with me! How was it that I, a woman of Earth, was here, in a cell, on another world, with a marked thigh, caged with slaves? And how could it be that I, of Earth, was here, on this other world, also a slave, as much as they? "I do not want to be sold!" I said. |
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| 8 | 1321 |
I recalled that it had been estimated, even on Earth, that I would go from between forty and sixty, an amount which I had then mistakenly interpreted as dollars, thousands of dollars, a form of Earth currency. |
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| 8 | 1971 |
I had not had such a sweet since Earth, since my "harvesting" as one of the ill-protected, exposed, dangling fruits so easily available to slavers in the "slave orchard of Earth," no, not since my acquisition, my capture, my routine snaring, merely another sleek, defenseless animal, ignorant and uns... |
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| 47 | 77 |
Had he not behaved as I might have expected a man not of Gor, but of Earth, cunning, self-seeking, and devoid of honor, to behave? Of Gor, was he not more of Earth than Gor? I looked up, as I heard a ripple of awareness about me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 282 |
How different were the women of Earth from them, those of Earth lacking Home Stones, with their brazenly unveiled features, their openly displayed ankles, the pleading silk of their secret lingerie, so fit for slaves. |
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| 7 | 14 |
Here, as I had not on Earth, I felt myself a woman, and, for the first time, radically and basically female, far beyond anything I had experienced on Earth. |
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| 17 | 78 |
How miserable I was, there, kneeling alone on the boards! How I hated him! And all men! Why could they not be like the men of Earth, sweet, understanding, sensitive, weak, confused, timid, eager to please, easily guided, suitably conditioned, manipulable, repudiators of nature, betrayers of their bl... |
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| 21 | 208 |
Many Goreans, I suppose, might seem callous, heartless, or cruel to many of Earth, but they commonly, as those of Earth often do not, love their world, love growing things, trees, grass, flowers, and the world itself, the day and night, the seasons, the wind and sky, the stars, the sound of water in... |
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| 25 | 395 |
Is such a thing so natural to a woman, I wondered? Has it been coded in us, since the savannas, and caves? How his eyes had looked upon me! Somehow it had been clear to me that this was no man of Earth, or no common man of Earth. |
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| 46 | 31 |
How different were the men of Gor from so many of the men I had known on Earth! So many of the men of Earth had disappointed me; so many seemed pathetically devirilized, so reduced and robbed of their masculinity. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 801 |
How soft you were, how forgiving you were, contemptible weakling! How like those of Earth! Have they no claws, no fangs, no blood, no heart? How far you were from the proud, severe, proportioned ways of Gor! And in the camp of Mintar the Merchant, when I pathetically petitioned the iron, when I impl... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 79 |
From whence did they think came the humans of Gor, and their own ancestors, if not from the precincts of Earth at one time or another! And what of some Gorean beauties, slave-clad and in their collars, to whom they might point as excellent examples of their claim, the superiority of Gorean beauties ... |
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| 1 | 52 |
Fool that I was, I had thought him another man of Earth, a mere man of Earth. |
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| 7 | 261 |
I would learn the gravity of Gor, for it was on this world I now was, was less than that of Earth, the planet being somewhat smaller, though it would have more land surface than Earth, as it possessed only one mighty ocean, not two, that ocean being restless, turbulent, gleaming Thassa, the sea. |
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| 8 | 242 |
The women of Earth, familiar only with the typical men of Earth, confused, crippled, timid, diffident, apologetic, diminished, eager to conform, zealous to please those who hate them, are frequently starved for sex. |
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| 8 | 273 |
How can some, I wondered, pretend to be ignorant of the tensions, the cords of interest and desire, which attend the interactions of the sexes? Are they unaware of the radical centrality of sexuality to the human condition? Do they lie, or are they somehow ignorant, or inert, simply blind to the tur... |
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| 34 | 77 |
It was a common joke, amongst the men of Gor, that the men of Earth thought some women beautiful merely because they had seen no better, as though, say, Gorean women might be superior to those of Earth. |
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| 34 | 119 |
"Why do not the Kurii," I asked, "if they are so ambitious, violent, and powerful, if this world is not yet available to them, seize Earth?" "Priest-Kings," said Kurik, "shelter Earth. |
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| 43 | 39 |
Surely I had been legally free on Earth, but I had learned, on Gor, that even on Earth I had been a slave, a slave in the profoundest of senses, a natural slave, a bred slave, born to be fittingly collared. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 419 |
"I know you! From Earth! From Earth! I know you! You know me! From Earth! From Earth!" He was here, on Gor! He was in the garb of the free! He would know me! He must have connections, relationships, power! He would free me! He would rescue me! He would save me! I would be released from the horrid de... |
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| 1 | 56 |
To be sure, Goreans apprised of the Second Knowledge, those better informed, aware, for example, that Earth and Gor are planets orbiting a common star, tend to regard Earth as a barbarous planet. |
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| 1 | 63 |
Is it so strange that a lightly-clad, collared, owned animal, sexual and beautiful, exciting and needful, her slave fires kindled by the will and doings of men, might be found, however undeservedly, of interest to men? What man would wish, save for social or economic advantage, to indefinitely pursu... |
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| 2 | 154 |
"This is all a terrible mistake! Clothe me! Take this collar off my neck! I should not be here! This is not my world! I do not belong here! I cannot be sold! I am a woman of Earth! Of Earth! I cannot be sold! I am free, free!" He looked at me, puzzled. |
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| 12 | 12 |
And no wonder we so fear them! Returning to my story, I had been so certain of my view of the men of Earth that I had assumed that Addison Steele was no different from so many others I had known on my former world; I had approached him on the Thieves' Way South as though he might be a typical man of... |
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| 20 | 109 |
Gorean slavers on Earth doubtless mastered one or more Earth languages. |
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| 22 | 47 |
Did it amuse him, I wondered, that I, a former free woman of Earth, indeed, one of his own acquaintance, the former Miss Margaret Henderson, whom he had held in such contempt on Earth, now collared, branded, kneeling and bound, should so unhesitantly, and promptly, identify herself as what she now w... |
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| 23 | 33 |
I wore a large, loose, plaid, cotton shirt and a pair of jeans, the sort of commonly masculine clothing by means of which a woman of Earth might attempt to draw attention to herself, as though challenging men by donning their customary garmenture; or perhaps trying to prove that clothing is, or shou... |
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| 41 | 237 |
How different he was from so many of the men of Earth! Before one such as he how could one be but a slave? And yet, I suspected he might be a man of Earth. |
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| 46 | 143 |
Even from Earth and the cocktail party I had sensed that I belonged naked at his feet! How I had fought this, I, such a stupid, foolish, willful, wayward girl! How could I admit that I was a slave, and his slave! How deep was biology, and the secret of my being! How alien this was to all that I had ... |
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| 47 | 6 |
Certainly I had first encountered him on Earth, and he had seemed at ease on Earth, familiar with its habits and customs, and had spoken English with no trace of an accent. |
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