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Book 1. (10 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 41 Bristol, as you know, is a heavily urbanized area, and I was not well prepared for my first encounter with nature.
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1 188 Who knew the nature of the things or forces that were afoot that night in the mountains, things and forces that might perhaps smash me, casually, as one innocently steps on an insect without being aware of it or caring? I still had the compass, and that constituted a firm link to reality.
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1 193 The needle was spinning crazily, and oscillating backward and forward, as if the laws of nature had suddenly been abridged in its vicinity.
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2 153 "But let me begin in my own way, that you may better understand the nature of that whereof I speak".
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3 114 This would be the normal supposition in any case, but what intrigued me here, perhaps for no sufficient reason, was the complex nature of the expressions involved.
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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 12 It was the wild nature of the tarn, the call of the distant hills, the open sky, against the puny conditioning he had been subjected to, against the will of tiny men with their private objectives, their elementary psychology of stimulus and response, their training wires and tarn-goads.
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12 57 The current soon caught it, and it began to spin in slow circles farther and farther out into the midst of that vast force of nature called the Vosk.
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12 86 I would have a few moments more of life, the same brief reprieve nature grants the mouse carried by the hawk to its nest; then on some barren crag my body would be torn to pieces by the beast whose prey I was.
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18 173 The thought flamed through me in the violent delirium of battle that in those moments I was many men, an army, that no man could stand against me, that it was not my blade or my heart they faced but something I myself only dimly sensed, something intangible but irresistible, an avalanche, a storm, a...
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Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

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4 74 I raised my eyes to the storm, and my spear and shield, and shouted into the storm, my voice drowned in the turbulence of nature, a defiant puff of wind hurled against the forces that seemed arrayed against me.
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6 68 Something of the nature of the institution of capture, and the Gorean's attitude toward it, becomes clear when it is understood that one of a young tarnsman's first missions is often the capture of a slave for his personal quarters.
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15 90 What more could I tell her? That it had not killed me, knowing the nature of tarns, seemed almost as incredible to me as it did to her.
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22 132 It suggested to me that I, even the Tatrix, might share the unworthy nature of the beast".
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22 180 I have wondered how long nature's laws, if laws they are, can be subverted in Tharna.
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Book 3. (12 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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8 32 No wonder the Priest-Kings hid behind their palisade in the Sardar and let the myths of the Initiates build a wall of human terror about them, no wonder they let their nature and ends be secret, no wonder they took such pains to conceal and obscure their plans and purposes, their devices, their inst...
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9 241 I could not conjecture the nature of the creature's experience but I knew that I stood within the center of its sensory field.
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10 12 They recognize that we have different sensory arrangements than they do and I suspect that they are as unclear as to the nature of our experience as we are of theirs.
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13 27 It would never occur to them that nature is ultimately simple, and if they found it so they would be rather disappointed.
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13 28 They view nature as a set of interrelated continua rather than as a visually oriented organism is tempted to do, as a network of discrete objects which must be somehow, mysteriously, related to one another.
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21 66 His abdomen, drained of Gur, was now normal and he stalked regally to the door, moving on those light, feathery feet with the delicate steps of one of nature's masters.
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24 53 I wondered at the nature of the Beetle's pursuit of his prey.
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24 59 It seemed foolish, unlikely, a puzzle of nature.
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25 18 I smiled to myself, for I could always tell her, and truthfully, that having saved her life she was now mine by Gorean law, so brief had been her freedom, and that it was up to me to determine the extent and nature of her clothing, and, indeed, whether or not she would be allowed clothing at all.
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26 206 I could not understand why this assertion of mine should have troubled one of Vika's proud and treacherous nature but she seemed somehow more hurt than if I had administered to her when she had knelt the blows of a slave whip or the lashings of my sword belt.
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27 110 But I now understood as I observed the slight, almost enraptured tremor of their antennae responding to the scent-music of the musicians that this was not a simple demonstration of their patience but a time of exaltation for them, of gathering, of bringing the Nest together, of reminding them of the...
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29 42 Moreover, I knew that the cage plastic with which my own ship was protected would be no more protection than tissue paper against Sarm's weapons, the nature of which was not to pierce or melt but, from a given center, radiating outwards, to shatter material gravitationally, breaking it apart and sca...
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Book 4. (11 results) Nomads of Gor

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25 384 "You are perhaps right," I said, "but throughout the mammals it seems that there is one whose nature it is to possess and one whose nature it is to be possessed".
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25 755 "A true man," she cried out suddenly, "would not behave so! No! A true man is gentle, kind, tender, respectful, at all times, sweet and solicitous! That is a true man!" I smiled at her defenses, so classical, so typical of the modern, unhappy, civilized female, desperately frightened of being truly ...
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2 6 It was only in the Sardar Mountains that I had learned the nature of their mission, and what it was that they had carried.
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2 7 Now I supposed that I alone, of humans on Gor, with the possible exception of some among the Wagon Peoples, knew the nature of the mysterious object which once these two brave men had brought in secrecy to the plains of Turia—and, to be truthful, I did not know that even I—should I see...
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2 72 In the thinking of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure...
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9 278 I did not clearly understand Kamchak's motivations in this matter—unless, of course, he knew the true nature of the golden sphere, in which case, naturally, he would recognize it as priceless.
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10 453 The fact that the saber is not a common weapon of Wagon Peoples is a reflection of the style, nature and conditions of warfare to which they are accustomed, a matter of choice on their part rather than the result of either ignorance or technological limitation.
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12 22 He, or those for whom he worked, must have some inkling—or perhaps know—of the nature of the golden sphere.
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17 23 "What is the nature of the beast in the pool?" I asked.
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25 112 It was a light punishment, primarily admonitory in nature.
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25 371 "But what," I asked, "if the laws of nature and of human blood were more basic, more primitive and essential than the conventions and teachings of society—what if these old secrets and truths, if truths they be, had been concealed or forgotten, or subverted to the requirements of a society co...
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Book 5. (11 results) Assassin of Gor

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15 184 They were the women of inferior men who had been unable to protect them; such men would be conquered when one wished; their women belonged to those who could take them, who would be the victorious; hence they were of slave stock, by nature; that this sort of thing had occurred always, and would alwa...
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3 128 He was actually quite skilled, and would have played well among even gifted Goreans, to whom the game is almost second nature, but he was not of Player caliber, by far.
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5 37 Further I was confident that the lock would be placed, for Cernus would insist, by one of his own smiths, and thus that the nature of the lock would be known to him and that a duplicate of its key, in spite of the injunction against such, would doubtless be his.
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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...
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7 93 I gathered that they had seen this ship, or others like it, before, but that they had little inkling of the nature of the events that were transpiring.
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7 94 Indeed, I suspected that other than Cernus there were none who truly understood the nature of the ship and its mission, and perhaps he only incompletely.
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11 6 The expression "The Iron Pens," incidentally, generally refers to all of the subterranean retention facilities in the house of a slaver, not simply cages, but pits, steel drums, wall chains and such; it is the name of an area, on the whole, rather than a literal description of the nature of the only...
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15 87 I do not choose to describe the nature of the games, except in certain general detail.
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15 183 The upshot of these disquisitions, predictably, was that what had happened to them was appropriate given certain laws of intraspecific competition, of conflict and dominance, of the rightful orders of nature.
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15 204 Certain of these questions and answers, suggesting their nature, would be: Q: What are you? A: I am a slave girl.
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21 184 I did not look directly at the man, fearing that perhaps he might note the nature of the helmet I wore.
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Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

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8 36 I do not think the men of Port Kar, at that time, realized the nature of the weapon that had slain their helmsman.
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10 209 Four of these had been commercial in nature.
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11 408 Several committees were formed, usually headed by scribes but reporting to the council, to undertake various studies pertaining to the city, particularly of a military and commercial nature.
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11 414 It is true, of course, that the council already controlled a large number of ships and crews, but it must be remembered that these forces were naval in nature; the council already had its navy; the events of the afternoon had demonstrated that it would be well if it had also at its disposal a small,...
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Book 7. (18 results) Captive of Gor

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7 13 Considering the nature of the goods commonly found in Laura, rough goods for the most part, one might have supposed it strange that Targo was bound for that city.
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7 292 I have perhaps not made clear enough the nature of the men of this world.
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7 305 The Gorean culture does not deny nature but accepts it, acclaims it, relishes it, and enhances it.
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7 430 In her condition she is subject to the laws of nature, not the artifacts of convention.
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8 407 The guard had strictly forbidden me to speak to the physician, other than to answer his questions, which I was to do promptly and accurately, regardless of their nature.
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10 474 And well I did so, for I had begun to suspect what it might be to be so needful, so helpless, so vulnerable, what it might be to desire with all one's being, submitted in the complementarities of nature, to love and serve a master, and even if one feared the master, or hated him, what it might be to...
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11 383 She cannot help but respond, you see, in the order of nature, to the virility and power of the master; this virility and power is stimulating to the slave, overwhelmingly so; indeed, virility and power stir the bellies of even free women; it is natural then for her to want to call herself to the att...
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12 30 As I recollect I have already described the nature of the common camisk in some detail, its construction, design, belting, and such, but another remark or two might not be amiss.
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12 32 To be sure, even so, given the common nature of the fabric, which is usually rep-cloth, it is seldom difficult to conjecture with some accuracy the lineaments of its lovely, half-naked occupant, or prisoner.
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12 175 To be sure, at that time I did not know the nature of the Gorean male.
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13 400 She did not have my fine mind, my sensitivity, my delicate nature, my cleverness.
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13 988 A thousand customs and protocols define her, and in the order of nature.
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13 1009 How angry, how resentful, must free women be, at the sight of a female slave! Who could blame them, seeing the exposure of her beauty, and knowing how she must obey? Too, we must understand the nature of the Gorean male, who finds women so attractive, so maddeningly desirable, that nothing less than...
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13 1020 Gorean slave girls, statistically, despite their vulnerability, their helplessness, and the degradation in which their culture holds them, seem to be the happiest of women, radiant and liberated, certainly muchly different from their frustrated, petulant sisters of Earth, alienated from the biotruth...
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13 1115 It had been different on Earth! Certainly there thousands of men must have been thrilled to see the sight of me, and conjecture the nature of the luscious but cold secrets concealed within the elegancies of those expensive, artfully arranged habiliments.
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14 412 Each so magnificently and joyously fulfilled, living the biotruths of human nature, of man and woman, of masculine and feminine, of dominance and submission, how could either even consider leaving the other? I thought of the emptiness, the vacuity, of so many marriages.
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15 386 I then sensed something of the points of honor and of the nature of insults which scornful men, mighty warriors, might exchange.
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17 81 I scarcely dared whisper to myself what might be the nature of those emotions.
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Book 8. (10 results) Hunters of Gor

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8 4 Much depends, of course, on the number of slavers, the nature of the quarry, and the particulars of a given chase or hunt.
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8 5 The fact that we numbered ten, including myself, and that the girls of Verna's band numbered some fifteen, and that they were skilled with their weapons, and dangerous, dictated the nature of our approach.
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14 258 It was little wonder such proud, fine women hated men, to whom nature had destined them.
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14 265 Nature has not destined her to escape him.
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16 19 The men of Tyros and the girls of Hura did not know the nature nor the number of their stalkers.
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17 24 They did not know the number nor nature of their enemies.
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18 118 They had not known the numbers or nature of the enemy that pursued them.
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22 698 Further, in the Gorean view, female slavery is a societal institution which enables the female, as most Earth societies would not, to exhibit, in a reinforcing environment, her biological nature.
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22 699 It provides a rich soil in which the flower of her beauty and nature, and its submission to a man, may thrive.
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22 729 Goreans believe it is the nature of a man to own, that of a woman to be owned.
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Book 9. (20 results) Marauders of Gor

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10 375 In the lowering of the woman, of course, a common consequence of her helplessness in the arms of a powerful male, her surrendering, her being forced to submit, she finds, incredibly to some perhaps, her freedom, her ecstasy, her fulfillment, her exaltation, her joy; in the Gorean mind this matter is...
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1 87 The sea, the wind and the salt, and, I suppose, the changes in my body, as I had matured, and learned with bitterness the nature of the world, and myself, and men, had changed it.
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1 94 He had entered the Sardar and was one of the few men who knew the true nature of Priest-Kings, those remote and extraordinary beings who controlled the world of Gor.
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1 490 I wondered, too, on the nature of my affliction.
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1 491 I had had the finest wound physicians on Gor brought to attend me, to inquire into its nature.
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1 495 The wounds were deep, and severe, and would doubtless, from time to time, cause me pain, but the paralysis, given the nature of the injury, seemed to them unaccountable.
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2 101 He does not, of course, know their nature.
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3 200 They looked at him with horror, understanding then what the nature of their life would be.
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3 353 How fantastic, how strange, I thought, is the blood of beasts, and I realized, too, that I was a beast, and wondered on what might be the nature of those instincts which must be my own.
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9 171 "I see, then, the nature of her duties," said Gunnhild, smiling.
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10 372 It is the nature of the male, among the mammals, to dominate, that of the female to submit.
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10 624 I did not wish, incidentally, even if I could, to give him a gift commensurate with what he had, in his hospitality, bestowed upon me; the host, in Torvaldsland, should make the greatest gifts; it is, after all, his house or hall; if his guest should make him greater gifts than he makes the guest th...
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11 136 That the Kurii possessed a sense of humor did not much reassure me as to their nature.
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11 145 "We are by these," it said, and then it lifted its right paw, suddenly exposing the claws, "and these, reminded that we must be resolute in our attempts to overcome a sometimes recalcitrant nature".
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11 205 This would permit an assessment of the power of Priest-Kings, the extent and nature of which was largely unknown to the Kurii, and, perhaps, to lure them into exposing themselves in such a way that a space raid might be successfully launched.
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15 57 Not only would the decision to halt the invasion be in violation of the practices and commitments of Priest-Kings, which would doubtless create dissension in the Nest, producing a leverage the Kurii might be able to exploit, but, if the invasion were halted, it being a large movement, and complex, i...
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15 69 This was the boldest and most fearful probe of the Kurii of the ships, directed toward humans but doubtless, in fact, a testing of the will and nature of Priest-Kings, their true foes.
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18 17 The nature of the attack, and its extent, would not be clear to them.
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18 654 Native Kurii, bred from ships' survivors over centuries, would not, it seemed, if limited to the primitive weapons permitted men, be capable of conquering Gor, isolating the Priest-Kings in the Sardar, until they could be destroyed, or, alternatively, perhaps be used to lure the Priest-Kings into a ...
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21 40 Slave girls must reveal their sexual nature, totally.
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Book 10. (39 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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10 379 The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child...
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13 431 On Gor, they have at last the opportunity to meet men of a sort they had only dreamed of before, in furtive, secret dreams, dreams which thrilled and frightened them, virile, uncompromising, powerful men, masters of women, men before whom they could only find themselves slaves, and they find themsel...
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24 798 Males who satisfy their nature are vital and joyful, and, statistically, live long; those who deny their nature are miserable and, statistically, shorter lived, their tortured body chemistry falling prey frequently to hideous diseases".
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1 37 "What is the nature of your information?" I asked.
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1 276 Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...
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1 755 The nature of the sensory experience of Priest-Kings was still, largely, a mystery to me.
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2 157 Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd...
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2 159 For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...
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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 ...
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4 381 Subdued, she was now in her place in nature.
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5 243 * * * * It had been night, when I had first suspected the nature of the trap, the sixth night after the joining of the caravan of Farouk by the escort of Aretai soldiers.
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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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5 415 "Without knowing the nature and number of the enemy?" I inquired.
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11 58 The "bath" in the Tahari is not a matter of crawling into a small tub but is more in the nature, as on Gor generally, of a combination of cleaning and swimming, and reveling in the water, usually connected with various oils and towelings.
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12 167 The two girls, in white garments, as I had come to understand, were dominant in the seraglio, rather in the nature of eunuchs, imposing order upon it and keeping its slaves in harmonious discipline.
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13 385 I did not know if Priest-Kings, with all their brilliance, and all their great stores of knowledge on their scent-tapes, had a glandular and neurological system with which the motivations and nature of Kurii could be understood.
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13 386 The true nature of the Kurii might elude them, almost physiologically, like a menacing color they could not see, a terrible sound to which their sensors were almost inert.
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14 225 "A stratagem of what nature?" I asked.
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14 371 A rich master will often have individual perfumes specially blended and matched to the slave nature of his various girls.
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17 77 Perhaps nature has denied us this gift.
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21 464 Similar thoughts must have coursed through the brain of the Kur and I, but I did not know the position or nature of the portal.
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24 4 Many of his men, I believe, did not understand the nature of the forces they faced until we swept over the hills upon them.
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24 66 She lifts her hands and face and body to the sun and wind, come home at last, after years of banishment, to nature's world.
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24 67 She is now, for the first time in her life, free to accept and embrace her deepest and truest identity, her ancient selected-for biological identity, as old as the raid, the hunt in the forest, the cave and leather thongs, the decree of nature, the fruit of evolution's wisdom, that of the lover, cap...
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24 121 She had thrown me a token, a square of silk, slave silk, red, some eighteen inches square, redolent with the perfume fitted by some perfumer, on the order of her master, to her slave personality, her slave nature and slave body.
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24 358 Again was the summoning gong sounded, this time, it seemed to me, from the nature of the stroke, impatiently.
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24 454 I do not even know if there are many masters on Earth, true masters, masters who know, treasure and love women, for what they are in themselves, not for their conformance to some images alien to their deeper nature, men who so desire and lust for such creatures that they are content with nothing les...
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24 465 They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e...
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24 477 "Have you considered the nature of what you are saying?" I asked.
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24 533 But walls of cardboard, and chains of paper, however formidable in aspect, are easily rent, and discarded, by those who see beyond them the banquets, the beauties and glory of nature.
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24 658 Goreans, not too unlike the men of Earth, when dealing with free women, are often tolerant of cheating nature, of reducing and degrading her.
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24 796 Dominance is genetically dispositional in his nature.
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24 797 Males are divided into those who satisfy their nature and those who do not.
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24 840 "Nature, in teaching man to dominate, has not failed to provide his victim".
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25 142 "I, too, will guard its nature," said Shakar.
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26 312 Who but such a true slave would beg to be freed? Such individuals, of course, are never freed, but, commonly, their nature now being made undeniably clear, are put under heavier restraints and treated more harshly.
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26 488 I did inquire, however, of the fellow who had accompanied her to the general slave quarters the nature of her journey to that destination.
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26 970 It is better to embrace nature and fulfill her than deny her.
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26 1211 They do not shrivel before the moral fervor of fanatics; rather they seek to look behind words, discarding them as largely meaningless, to discover what is truly meant, what is wanted, what is being striven for, and, if these programs and policies are implemented, what will be the nature of the resu...
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Book 11. (77 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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22 361 In any event, the Gorean culture is designed to celebrate and enhance nature, not to frustrate her, not to sicken and poison her; in nature there is complementarity; there is dominance and submission; that is in the genes of a thousand species, including our own; if the dice of genetics ever, long a...
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3 537 The brand Eta wore was not the "dina"; it was, as I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; it, too, however, was, in its delicacy and floral nature, an incredibly beautiful and feminine brand; I recalled that I had thought that the brand I had heat...
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4 839 I wondered what might be the nature of men, and what might be the nature of women.
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4 1033 It was not the freedom of convention I then felt but the freedom of nature, not the freedom to be what I was not, which had been prescribed to me, but the freedom rather to be what I was, which, for complex social and historical reasons, had been long denied to me; it was not the freedom of politica...
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4 1144 Then, as I lay there, bound, with Eta nearby, I asked myself why I should be ashamed? Was it wrong for a woman to yield helplessly to a man? Was it wrong for the heart to beat, to breathe, to feel? If the nature of the man were conquest and victory, what might then be the nature of the woman; could ...
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27 358 This is as it should be, and, shortly after coming to Gor, this is brought home to her, clearly; on Gor she finds herself restored to the antique rights of her biological heritage, and meaning; she learns complementarity; she learns about dominance and submission, and that she is not dominant; at la...
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1 127 In this atmosphere, my blood charged with oxygen, I found that I could detect odors which had eluded me before; it was as though an entire new dimension of experience had suddenly opened to me; yet I suppose it was only that here, in this place, my body did not have reason to fight its world, shutti...
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2 318 I wondered then what was the nature of women.
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2 434 How terrible he was! How proud, how magnificent he seemed! I thought I knew then, with horror, the nature of men.
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2 754 I could neither explain nor understand my nature or purpose, if any, on this world.
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2 782 Biology, and a nature, the product of harsh, exacting thousands of generations of evolution, of time, and breeding and animal history, was unimportant.
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2 916 I wondered, frightened, if it were at the feet of men, or at least at the feet of such men as this, that women belonged, if that might be the unperverted order of nature.
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3 89 Only on Gor, in the presence of my captor, had I, at times, begun to suspect that there was an incredible, glorious world of experience, not forbidden on this planet, to which my nature as a female fully entitled me, could I but dare to be myself.
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3 150 It was in the nature of a cache camp, which might be returned to now and again.
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3 174 "Rape me!" And even though we did not know one another's language, there could have been no mistaking the nature of my needs, and the import of my petition.
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3 192 They discussed some project, the nature of which I, of course, ignorant of the language, could not understand.
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3 221 The only reservation I had pertaining to the design was that I thought it might be a bit too delicate and lovely, like a lovely rose, to appropriately mark goods of a gross masculine nature, such as, say, harnesses or shields.
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3 449 I scarcely dared conjecture the nature of a girl who wore such a mark on her body.
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3 501 What could be the nature, on a world such as this, of a girl who wore such a mark on her body? Men from about the fire, including my captor, and Eta, too, approached me.
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3 540 Some merchants invent brands, as the dina was invented, in order to freshen the nature of their merchandise and stimulate sales.
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3 556 He had "sized me up," my nature and my body.
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3 606 When I had cried out with anguish, bound on the inclined trunk of the white-barked tree, two men rose from near the fire and, as though they had been waiting for some such cry on my part, evidence that I now, to my horror, understood truly what I was, that I had now, in my own heart, and to my own m...
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3 686 It was the order of nature, unperverted, which I observed, as she moved about, among those mighty men.
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4 382 I had thought, before I was clearly apprised of the nature of Bina, cheap slave beads, that perhaps the men had supposed that I was to be chained at the rock, adorned with some rare and valuable necklace, worth perhaps a fortune.
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4 637 I wondered at what might be the nature of the camp in which I found myself.
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4 643 What then, I asked myself, was the nature of this camp? One of the men lifted his cup and I hurried to him.
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4 699 I did not understand their conversation, or the nature of the project which they were apparently planning.
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4 700 It was, I gathered, military in nature.
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4 835 At times I had been on the brink of surrendering myself to myself, acknowledging to my horrified conscious mind forbidden truths, long-denied realities, speaking of a venerable, long-suppressed, antique nature, one antedating huts of straw and limestone caves.
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4 837 A nature, like the growth of a tree, the shape of a bush, may be clipped and thwarted.
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4 1029 In the course of the savage discipline inflicted upon me, late in its measures, I had, it both thrilling and horrifying me, sensed the ancient primate complementarity of male and female, that in the ancient biological sovereignties of nature, on this world reasserted, I, a female, was simply subordi...
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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...
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5 143 The Companion Journey, then, when the auspices had been favorable, as they promptly were, these determined by the inspection of the condition and nature of the liver of a sacrificial verr, examined by members of the caste of Initiates, had begun.
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5 355 Nature, whatever might be her reasons, had not fitted me to outrun males.
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5 357 Then I realized how foolish this was, to so personalize nature, to ascribe to the cruel, blind processes of the world deliberate intentions.
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5 358 Rather it had been the selections of nature which had determined this.
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5 365 We are, to a large extent, one supposes, the products of environments, but it is well to remember that the maximum, shaping environments in which our nature was stabilized and forged are ancient ones; the sense in which environment determines endowment is the sense in which it determines which endow...
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5 789 Why did these men not hide their dominance; why did they not pretend it did not exist; why did they not suppress it; why did they not thwart and repudiate the birthright of their nature; why did they not make themselves miserable; why did they not torture themselves and diligently cultivate weakness...
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5 820 She did not yet know the nature of the relationships in which she was now helplessly implicated, relationships which could be every bit as perilous and significant as the physical bond of steel on her wrist.
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6 62 The cultural arrangements, as such arrangements should or may, liberated rather suppressed, constricted or thwarted my inner nature.
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6 63 My inner nature, thus, was permitted to open its petals to the rain and sunlight of a clean, honest, glorious world.
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6 128 It is, I suppose, given its nature, a military road leading to the north, broad enough to accommodate war tharlarion, treading abreast, and the passage, two or three, side by side, of thousands of supply wagons and siege engines, without unduly, for more than several pasangs, extending and exposing ...
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7 556 "It is my hope, too," said he, "that this beating will prove a useful initiation for you, given your antecedents and nature, into the condition of slavery".
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7 945 Perhaps this was only a slave girl's alertness to the master, an alertness natural enough in a girl who is owned by a man, whose well-being and very life may depend on how well she pleases him; I do not know; that is an alertness which any rational girl strives to cultivate; but I wondered if it mig...
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7 971 Then he stood up, as though shaking his mood from him, as though now he was again separate from nature, alien in its midst, conscious, a man, and I was at his feet, a woman.
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7 1039 "Too," said he, "the nature of your flight, and your selection of a refuge, indicates high intelligence".
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9 236 I became aware of how I was seen by them, and the only way I, with my beauty and nature, could be seen by them.
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9 981 The test of a society is perhaps not its conformance or nonconformance to principles but the nature and human prosperity of its members.
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9 1990 I could not conjecture the nature of her thoughts.
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9 2115 Profoundly, I suppose, these things have to do with nature and her lovely mysteries, encoded genetically into the very heritage of a species, yes, there, a thousand leagues beneath the superficial trivialities of politics and convention, with dominance and submission.
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9 2123 How clear they make the complementarities of nature to the slave! They are profoundly sexual, and sensual.
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9 2260 "I am helpless! I never knew I could feel this way!" "And what is the nature of your feelings?" he asked.
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12 48 Scrubbing must be done, and the sewing, and the washing and ironing of clothes, and the cleaning; too, we aided in the kitchen, usually in the preparing of vegetables and in the scouring of pots and pans; too, water must be carried to the men on the parapets; there was much work of a lowly and servi...
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12 180 "For what purpose," inquired Borchoff, "were you attempting to ascertain the nature of our defenses?" "It has slipped my mind," said the man.
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12 248 They would doubtless proceed in this matter regardless of her feelings, oblivious of her integrities, for they would not be truly interested in fulfilling her nature, whatever it might be, but in avoiding the responsibilities of their own.
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12 431 "You were apprehended making inquiries," said Borchoff, "into the structure of our fortress and the nature of its defenses".
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12 436 "I was thus brought into the fortress, where I might make further determinations, of such a nature as to expedite the transactions of my men".
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13 77 The matter, I supposed, was a function of genetic subtleties, and the nature of differing gametes.
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18 66 Certainly there is little on Earth that will have prepared them to understand the nature of her bondage, its particular reality.
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18 67 Certainly its nature shook and transformed me, when I first discovered it, what I had become, what I was here.
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20 319 It can be frustrated only by an extensive and complex conditioning program, one adequate, over a period of years, to distort the order of nature.
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20 582 Did I want truly to be a slave? How could that be? To have no choice but to obey, and serve! Surely that could not be true! I must not let it be true! I must not let it be true! And then I felt, rising within me, the feelings of Earth, so insidious, grievous and ugly, the reflexes, emotions and resp...
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22 358 The slave is seen as a lovely property which may be purchased or stolen, owned and mastered; she has no standing in the eyes of the law; she is rightless and vulnerable; she belongs to the master and must obey and serve him; she exists to please; that is her purpose; she must hope to well fulfill it...
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22 362 Nature rejected is life denied.
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22 364 The female slave is true to her deepest nature; she is exquisitely and vulnerably feminine; she is the most feminine of women; her purpose, destiny and meaning is love; she exists for love.
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22 375 To be sure, many Goreans believe that all women are bred slaves, slaves that nature has bred for man.
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22 721 Perhaps they had discovered the nature of the slave I sought and had left her behind, as garbage, to go down with the ship! But I wanted her! It was important for me to have her! She was worthless garbage but I wanted her alive, to get my hands on her pretty little body, to have her at my feet, to s...
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22 729 Had she been picked up? That must not be! She must be here, somewhere! Surely none who knew her, and what she was, who knew her true nature, would deign to fish such garbage out of the water! Unless to deliver her, to her horror, to me for my vengeance! Our own galley was subsiding.
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24 77 Too, of course, she will learn to kneel, to move, and to serve, in many ways; too, she will learn the nature of slave garments, and how to drape and wear them, when she is permitted clothing; she will learn to apply the cosmetics, perfumes and jewelry of a slave, and so on.
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25 142 "Further," said he who was called Bosk of Port Kar, "the slave herself did not understand the nature of her role in these matters.
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26 486 "I think, Master," I said, "that the name is not truly fitting for this slave, given her nature and appearance".
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27 359 How precious and glorious it is, she learns, to be a woman! And how joyfully and wondrously different it is from a man! At last she becomes true to herself and in this truth she rids herself of miseries, anxieties, conflicts, and fears; she is no longer a politically engineered social artifact, but ...
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27 591 She knew then the nature of the man, and his strength, who owned her.
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27 613 It is, it seems, the way of primate nature.
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28 19 From the voice you try to guess the nature of the master.
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29 97 It is, I suppose, one of nature's utilities, reducing the female's effectiveness in self-defense or flight, putting her all the more at the mercy of the stronger beast.
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29 212 I wondered if now she truly understood, perhaps for the first time, the nature of the institution of slavery.
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Book 12. (62 results) Beasts of Gor

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15 484 First, as girls, natural slaves, they were in a relationship to which, in effect, they were bred by nature, that of the submitting organism in an ancient biological complementarity of male and female; female slavery is but the cultural institutionalization, the expression and perfection, to be expec...
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15 485 Man owns woman by nature; in a complex society, and in a world with property rights and laws, female slavery, as a legalized fact, is to be expected; it will occur in any society in which touch is kept with the truths of nature.
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37 135 "Hurry!" Nature transcended is perhaps nature outraged.
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1 20 But we do know the worlds, long ago, entered the system of a slow-revolving, medium-sized yellow star occupying a peripheral position in one of nature's bounteous, gleaming, strewn spiral universes.
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1 88 She, if properly treated, and by properly treated I do not mean treated with courtesy and gentleness, but rather correctly treated, as her nature craves, is even more helplessly in the grasp of its power than a man.
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2 576 They are in their nature, unrelated.
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2 621 Winds and tides broke the ice, crushing and piling it in fantastic shapes, wild, trackless conformations, the sport of a terrible nature at play, the dreaded pack ice of the north.
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3 282 The objects would not stand on the counter, for they were rounded, as are shapes in nature.
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3 284 All details must be perfect, from every perspective, as in nature.
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3 427 She is no longer permitted the lofty dignities and proud postures of the exalted free woman; they are now behind her; she no longer now needs be concerned with the protection of, and defense of, and maintenance of, her laboriously, monstrously constructed image, with all its prescriptions, requireme...
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3 605 Her behavior, however, made manifest the nature of her terror.
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3 798 "You will note, of course," said the dark-haired girl, second on the chain, who had worn the torn pull-over, "the nature of the garments in which we have been placed".
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3 1199 Perhaps both the dark-haired girl and the blonde, if they had they been somewhat longer on the platform, might have learned something—might have conquered their inhibitions, and have submitted themselves willingly, gladly, trustingly and hopefully, to the rude, exploratory caresses of buyers,...
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3 1223 I will serve you well!" She called out in English, for she knew no Gorean, but there could be little misinterpretation of her intent or of the desperate, piteous nature of her entreaties.
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4 312 Did he not know the nature of the men of Gor? "Kill Centius of Cos!" I heard cry.
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5 41 I think I sense the nature and being of this Zarendargar".
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6 182 "Do not explain to me the nature of swordplay and odds".
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8 54 Samos, for example, had little inkling of the nature of Priest-Kings.
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8 133 "Do you understand the nature of the cause in which you work?" I asked.
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9 250 A useful lie promulgated with energy and persistence has much power, but so, too, do the facts of nature.
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9 254 How is it, they wonder, that beauties in tunics and collars, are obviously so much happier than they? And how is it that the beauties seem to prize the very tokens of their bondage, the bracelets, the collars, the lovely, revealing tunics, and such, considered so degrading by, and yet exercising suc...
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12 348 Many people do not understand the nature of the polar north.
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12 367 Almost all of the plants of this nature are perennials, as the growing season is too short to permit most annuals to complete their growing cycle.
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12 565 "Consider your beauty, and the nature of the men of Gor".
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12 606 "It is a genetic expectation," I told her, "more ancient than the caves, a whisper in your brain bespeaking a lost world of nature, a world in which the human being, both male and female, were bred.
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12 610 "They hint to you of nature's world," I told her.
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13 4 The tundra is cold, and much of it is boglike in nature.
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13 11 It is difficult to convey the nature of a world subject to great cold.
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13 68 It had been for much the same reason that I had delayed broaching to Imnak the nature of my mission in the north.
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15 494 Slavery also, of course, encompasses the ownership of male slaves, for which there is less precedent in nature.
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15 566 "It is here," I said, "that you are forced to be true to your own nature.
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15 568 "True freedom," she said, "is to follow one's own nature".
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15 774 "It is not unusual," I said, "to even send a girl aroused onto the block, that the nature of her movements may make clear her needs to the audience".
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15 807 She is now where nature places her, at his feet and in his power.
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15 910 It was natural that she should be desperately eager to learn the nature of a slave girl's lot.
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15 1000 "Surely," she whispered, "I can attempt to influence the nature of my slavery".
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15 1161 Imnak lifted his head quickly, and then, understanding the nature of the noise, shook his head and reached over and seized Poalu.
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21 126 It releases her from the constrictions of verbalisms and stereotypes and permits her to be truly herself, within of course the latitudes of her nature, that of slave".
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21 238 Women, despite what they may feel obligated to proclaim publicly, detest such men, for they betray their dominance, their genetic heritage as male primates, thus cheating not only themselves of the fulfillment of their nature but precluding the woman from also fulfilling hers.
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21 245 "It is called manhood, and womanhood, and nature".
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21 246 "It is a long time since those of Earth recollected the many names of nature".
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21 262 It is their nature.
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21 264 Her slavery in itself, apart from her intelligence or beauty, is found extremely provocative and exciting to the male, because of his nature".
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21 272 Too, slavery, by removing certain inhibitions and demands alien to a female's deepest nature, generally results in an increase in her beauty and energy; she is no longer as constricted and miserable, and needs no longer spend energy fighting to suppress herself and her natural desires, surely a grot...
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21 275 It is thus that the free woman, though interesting, being female, is usually, sadly, a bound prisoner of her own prejudices, a rigid, constricted, ideologically restrained organism, an imitator of images and stereotypes alien to her own nature, a puppet obedient to principles foreign to herself.
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21 276 How can a woman be free until she obeys the laws of her own nature?" "I do not know," said Arlene.
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22 1 Imnak and I Hunt Sleen; We Consider the Nature of the World "Over there," said Imnak, indicating the place in the water.
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22 283 "The nature of your stroke, and its depth," said Imnak.
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24 130 "Do you know the nature of those who were your superiors," I asked.
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24 194 Thus, when you find you simply will be given no alternative other than being a true woman, in the full sense of the word, designed by nature as a love slave for males strong enough to master you, you cannot help but be thrilled.
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24 302 "It has to do with nature," I suggested.
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26 145 Its meaningfulness to the sleen was reflected in the sudden alteration in the nature of the pack's hunting cries.
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27 226 "But such things," she said, "control even the forces of nature".
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29 3 The principles of the weapon, I assumed, were similar to those of a rifle, except that the missile would not be a slug of metal but something more in the nature of a tiny quarrel, some six inches in length.
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31 149 The more they betray their own nature the more they congratulate themselves on their perfection.
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31 231 "Structure is a function of nature.
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32 169 They tend to rob one, because of their nature, of the closeness, the immediacy, the joy of the hot kill.
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35 794 Some of the boxes were in the nature of open crates.
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35 1135 Imnak explained to some of them the nature of the dart-firing weapons.
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36 195 Every organism has its place in nature.
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38 179 What a joy for the master who would own her and see to it that she fulfilled her nature! A Gorean master, of course, would see to it.
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38 198 Another is, "I was found beautiful enough for a Warrior to brand!" Girls compete, so to speak, with one another in many ways, the quality and nature of their brands, the comfort, lightness, and attractiveness of their collars; at whose command they were branded and collared, the quality and texture ...
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Book 13. (50 results) Explorers of Gor

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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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32 315 He is not something out of nature nor apart from nature but one of its complex fulfillments.
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32 490 The political concern with the flourishing of nature stops short at human nature.
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32 1007 "That woman, in her nature," I said, "is the eternal slave, that man, in his nature, is the eternal master".
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1 605 Secondly, given the secretive nature of the rings' inventor, Prasdak of the Cliff of Karrash, I suspect there is an additional reason which mitigates against the dismantlement of the ring and its consequent reproduction".
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1 631 "What is their nature?" I asked.
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1 671 "She must remain totally ignorant of the true nature of her current captivity".
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2 39 Civilization may be predicated upon the denial of human nature; it may also be predicated upon its fulfillment.
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5 510 Often she tries to dominate males in her vicinity, perhaps in an attempt to punish them for their inability or cruel refusal to understand or relieve her discomfort, perhaps, too, in an attempt to provoke them into an action which will restore her to her place in nature.
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5 512 Perhaps it would have been better if she had never tasted nature.
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6 606 He would check the papers of Ulafi, the registration of the ship, the arrangements for wharfage, and the nature of the cargo.
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6 657 I speak, of course, of the men of Gor and those of a Gorean nature.
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7 162 On the other hand, I do not think he understood the nature of that importance.
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7 166 This tended to confirm in my mind that they did not understand the nature of her importance.
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7 170 If Ulafi or Uchafu truly understood the nature of the girl's importance, that it had nothing to do with her being red silk or white silk, she would doubtless, by now, have been richly and abundantly raped.
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10 77 I wondered at the nature of the man, the mention of whom might have caused this reaction in the shrewd Kipofu.
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12 269 For reasons that have to do with nature these things can be erotically momentous to a woman.
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12 270 The relation of master and slave, of course, in a psychophysical organism, of a high order of intelligence, such as the human being, is a beautiful and profound expression of the fundamental and central truth of animal nature, that of order and structure, and dominance and submission.
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12 271 It is merely the articulated, legalized expression, to be expected in rational organisms, of the biological context in which human sexuality developed, a context which can be betrayed but can never, because of the ingrained nature of genetic dispositions, be fully forgotten or, in the long run, succ...
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12 272 In denying it we deny our own nature.
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13 351 She began then, hysterically, sensing what portended, given the nature of her new reality, that of slave, to pull, and jerk, and tear at the chains.
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14 68 I wonder if he, ever, truly, will be able to fathom the nature and depth of the emotions of the woman who kneels at his feet".
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14 86 "What relation," she asked, "Master?" "That of the natural order of nature," I said.
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14 89 "I cannot know well the nature of your feelings," I said, "but I know, and well, that women are deep as well as beautiful".
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14 411 "They have not chosen to surrender the dominance which is the blood and backbone of their nature".
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17 26 "I had heard rumors of such a project but did not understand the nature of the ships or that this ubarate was involved.
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18 31 Such small things, I think, may be scorned by those who do not understand the nature of war or men, and be seen as manipulative and laughable, and yet such a small commendation, when warranted and sincere, is worth more to some men than the material treasures that might move those who hold themselve...
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23 48 Bila Huruma himself, of course, in spite of the cosmopolitan nature of his court, usually wore the skins, and the gold and feathers, of the askari.
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23 108 "The tharlarion and the ost, too, have their place in the palace of nature," said Kisu.
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24 112 He, a Ubar by nature, would not be an easy man to deal with, or to stop.
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27 186 What need they know of their transition between the status of the free woman and that of the despised, vendible animal? It is not for such as they a knowledge of the nature and modalities of their transport.
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27 209 For the first time in their lives they, these beautiful, vulnerable, captive, chained females of Earth, have looked into the eyes of a virile, powerful, untamed male, one not crushed and diminished by the machinations of a society pathologically fearful of nature.
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31 86 "Why have they remained strong and proud, joyful and mighty, and free, so unlike the men of my world? Have they not been taught that it is wrong for them to be true men, that it is wrong for them to fulfill themselves and be happy? Have they not been taught that frustration, and conflict and misery,...
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31 97 I admire their honesty, that they scorn to conceal the sovereignty which is theirs by nature.
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32 313 "The human being," I said, "is not alien to nature, nor disjointed from it.
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32 483 What is meant to be conveyed in the latter context is that according to a respected nature's decree, having to do with a thousand subtleties, principles, and genetic linkages, the male in our species is dominant, and powerfully so, not the female.
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32 484 Anything else is a perversion of nature, and results in unhappiness, misery, confusion, frustration, and, often, ill health, mental and physical, for both sexes.
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32 485 Indeed, the denial of, and abuse of, nature can shorten lives.
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32 1018 Such communities, emerging upon the ruins, might provide a nucleus for regeneration, a sounder, more biological regeneration of a social structure, one not antithetical to the nature of human beings".
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34 190 "I did not even begin to understand at that time," she said, "what might be involved, the almost total impossibility of escape and the drastic nature of the penalties which Gorean men might, without a second thought, so casually inflict upon me.
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34 418 That sort of admission, automatic, expected, and innocuous, serves often not only in lieu of an authentic emotional admission but serves often, too, as a psychological device whereby just such an honest concession to the needs of one's deeper nature may be avoided.
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34 619 What victims nature, in her inscrutable cunning, would make of foolish, vulnerable men.
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34 620 How is it that anything as petty, as trivial and worthless, as you are should play so indifferently with their hearts? Surely this is some jest of nature, intent upon tormenting her own.
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34 621 Or is it rather nature's way of calling men to the destiny to which she has intended them, to victory, and the mastery? You are a challenge of fortune, the player, and the stake, in the game that only one can win.
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34 772 "They cannot, in the nature of things, be attained by the free woman," I said, "for she is her own mistress, not the slave of a master".
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42 10 The river alone seems a world of nature in its own right, let alone the marvels of its associated terrain.
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43 83 Consider, too, the nature and condition of their garments.
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46 37 I would keep him chained until a determination can be made of his nature.
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50 93 Such is the nature of the Gorean gag.
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Book 14. (41 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 12 We were more in the nature of acquaintances.
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1 204 "Many thousands of individuals think in terms of the world, its nature and promise," I said, "not in terms of slogans and verbal formulas.
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1 250 "But I am fearful of the nature of my femininity," she said.
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1 624 Surely it is possible to at least consider a civilization which would not be inimical to the nature of human beings but compatible with their desires and needs.
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2 56 They are all property, property! Can fifty thousand, a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, a million, three million, years of nature be mistaken? No, I thought.
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2 316 What then could be biological manhood, in the fullness of its rationality and strength? I had, already, begun to suspect that manhood was not a mere pretension, as I had been taught, but something selected for, as seems reasonable, like the nature of the eagle and the lion, in the long, harsh realit...
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3 335 "It was there," she said, "that I learned the nature of the males of Earth, and to despise them".
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4 238 You are familiar with the nature of such myths, such superstructures and defense mechanisms.
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5 172 I am for all practical purposes a man, but one trapped by some cruel trick of nature in a woman's body.
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7 71 Earth seemed a world of sicknesses and traps, a world which seemed contrived as an offense against nature, a world in which the very air itself, by the works of men, was laden with deleterious gases.
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7 78 It is its nature.
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7 204 But in those moments, for a brief instant, before I could deplore and castigate my feelings, before I could muster misery and guilt, I had felt what it was to stand, if only briefly, in man's place in the order of nature.
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7 206 But then I recalled that I was a man of Earth, and that the world of nature, and what I was and women were, must be rejected and repudiated.
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7 211 Is it not in the interest of slaves to prohibit kings from claiming their thrones? Then I was overcome with misery and guilt that I had even dared to think such thoughts! How wrong nature was! How wrong to be true to the deep themes of the animal kingdom! Did I truly need to be what I was? Why shoul...
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7 249 It hinted too clearly at my dominance over her by nature, a dominance which I knew I must not permit myself to exercise, indeed, a dominance which I, of Earth, was not even supposed to permit myself to recognize.
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7 329 Then I reminded myself that she was not to be treated according to the harsh modalities of nature, those of dominance and submission, and the enforcement of order.
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7 349 I knew then, with a clarity and force far beyond those of argument and theory, that I stood in the order of nature.
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7 459 The female slave understands, or soon realizes, that she is a familiar, recognized, accepted, valued, prized, integral ingredient in a developed, colorful, functioning, complex society, one in which nature is acknowledged, even enhanced, by civilization rather than subverted and denied.
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7 578 But into those definitions did not enter, as I now recognize, hints of a nature formed by a harsh evolution, remarks pertaining to genetic dispositions selected for in times when the meadows were bestrode by the prowling tread of the saber-toothed tiger and the hills rang with the trumpeting of mast...
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7 643 How could she have understood me, she a Gorean girl, collared, whom strong men had long ago taught her womanhood? Did she not know that I, because of my fears, was trying to make her like a man? Could she not, like many of the women of Earth, because of her own fears, try, too, to be like a man? Eac...
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7 683 She was a Gorean girl, and her experiences on Gor had not prepared her to understand a male who had been taught to suspect his own nature, and to torture and lacerate himself for impulses, desires and feelings as natural as the circulation of the blood and the movement of molecules through the membr...
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7 991 You preclude her then from the fulfillment of her deepest nature".
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11 192 I had looked upon her for that shameful instant not as a person, but as a luscious, desirable female, one fitted by nature to kneel at the feet of a strong man.
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11 432 Her construction was Gorean in nature.
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12 250 What if, truly, he should not be tame? Then how would they be treated? What would be done to them? Would they not, in effect, be made his slaves, in the way of nature? But, too, I was apprehensive, for, in looking out on the tiers, I realized that one of these women could buy me, and that I would th...
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12 253 Gorean women, not trained to be ashamed of their instincts, not tutored in the betrayal and suppression of their nature, tend to look upon males whom they find attractive with both honesty and pleasure.
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13 289 The nature of these roads and their quality seems peculiar until one examines maps on which they occur.
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13 563 I did not press her on the nature of her training.
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13 885 It is somewhat more in the nature of a stirruped seat.
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16 109 Sometimes, though this is more expensive, a girl is brought in to the perfumers by her master for a consultation; the perfumer then questions the girl, orders her about, and may even caress her; then, in the light of her background and history, and intellectual and physiological nature, he recommend...
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16 133 A major difference between Gorean shopping and that on Earth is that on Gor there are few stores of a general nature, handling a large variety of goods.
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17 166 Only occasionally did they dream of the subverted biological hegemonies which were theirs by nature.
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21 382 How fit she seemed, in her place in the order of nature, naked, kneeling before a man.
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21 458 "Do you know its nature?" I asked.
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24 119 One accords the free woman her glory; she is welcome to it; but one derives from the slave the joys of the mastery, in accordance with the inexplicable decrees and mysterious equations of nature.
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30 65 This is presumably a function of such things as its actual restraint, which is quite real; its message to her that she is an animal, a slave; and its making clear to her, by a device, such as a bracelet, a brand or collar, what is the order of nature, who it is who controls her and who it is whom sh...
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32 123 Too, that this position is assumed before a male, who is dominant by nature, is additionally significant.
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32 141 Does she not understand she will never find herself until she is on her knees before a man; does she not understand for what nature has designed her; does she not understand that she, in her beauty, is his, indeed, that she was born to be his, born for the collar of a master? "I think I shall now te...
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34 53 But that is not to be wondered at, for it is for that that nature has designed them.
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34 156 Perhaps a remark or two on the Gorean slave girl would be in order, as it may shed additional light on Gorean society and its nature, and, too, perhaps, it might be of independent interest.
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34 184 It would be difficult to imagine Gor without her slaves, and without her beauty, her freshness, and her accord with nature.
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Book 15. (42 results) Rogue of Gor

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22 128 On Earth politics and nature do not live in the same house, and, indeed, nature does not live in a house at all.
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30 158 Do you truly know better than nature? There seems no guarantee that the perversion of nature is more likely to lead to general human happiness than its recognition and celebration.
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1 317 My deepest sexuality and nature have on this world at last been fully liberated.
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1 347 The intelligent woman, of course, now put to her knees, quickly grasps what she now is, and what is expected of her; she now realizes that she is now, presumably for the first time in her life, in the presence of masters, authentic masters of women; she is well aware of the collar on her neck, and i...
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1 350 This has to do, doubtless, with a removal of inhibitions, a fulfillment of her nature, and such.
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1 390 There had been no mistaking the nature of her movements, her reflexes.
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1 445 "Do not deny her nature to her," said the girl.
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3 65 "Take your place in the order of nature," I said.
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3 201 "No," she said, "it is being a full female, in the order of nature".
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3 239 "Yes," I said, for, somehow, suddenly, perhaps with the sudden understanding and acceptance of her nature and condition, it had become true.
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4 473 These are, of course, obvious and practical skills, simply called for and to be expected, in a social milieu of the nature of Gorean society.
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4 474 I wondered if it were frightening to be a woman, and to know oneself smaller and weaker than the male, and subduable and leashable by the male, and to recognize, on some level, that one was in nature his rightful property, the smaller, lovelier goods of the larger, stronger beast.
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4 507 One thing seems clear to me, which is that the Gorean culture, for all its perils and occasional cruelties, is much closer to nature than certain other cultures.
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4 508 Those who do not fear nature will perhaps best understand the Gorean culture, and its viability, stability, and fulfilling aspects.
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9 124 The buyers now well understood the nature of the goods on which they were bidding.
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9 165 And how dismayed she had been to have been come upon in the restaurant by two of those she so feared, two of her fellow students, gross, mulelike females, politically sanctimonious, smug in dogmatism and power, examples of the ideologically obsessed mediocrities whose intent it was to turn a univers...
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10 157 The thought passed my mind that it might be nice to have Miss Henderson, not in some simple sense, merely, say, that of a transitory physical conjunction, but in a full proprietary sense, that of an uncompromised and absolute ownership, thus one in which not only all physicalities, and possessings, ...
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11 131 They see themselves in the order of nature.
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11 330 In these matters something is touched which obviously bears deeply on the fundamental nature of the sexes.
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11 331 Here, in human relations, is yet another exemplification of one of the major and incessantly recurrent themes of nature, that of dominance and submission.
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11 332 The realities of nature must be denied, I suspect, only at one's own peril.
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11 334 The nature of human beings precedes the fleeting parades of mottoes and slogans.
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11 358 Human nature may be despised; it may be thwarted; it may be distorted and denied.
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11 371 From my own point of view, I would prefer a bed which considered the nature of human beings.
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11 379 And as she moaned and gasped in my arms, and cried out, and I held her so closely she could not escape, I pondered the nature of human beings.
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11 452 "I am joyful, in the fulfillment of my nature," she said.
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11 571 "Perhaps such opinions subserve the purposes of ambitious and eccentric minorities," she said, "and that is doubtless an important point in their favor, but they do not seem to advance the cause of a civilization congenial to the nature of the human species as it is in actuality constituted".
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11 580 "Return to the order of nature".
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11 589 I then knew what was the order of nature.
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15 89 "What a fool you are to have opened the door, not knowing the nature or identity of your guest," I said.
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21 154 On Gor the order of nature, as old as the switch, the rope, the cave and the raid, has never been denied.
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21 231 "The nature of the woman, and her fulfillment and joy, does not matter to you?" she asked.
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21 240 "Nature is harsh, but it is not so terrible, truly," she said.
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21 306 How can I take my place in the order of nature if men will not treat me as they wish? That is what I want, to be treated, even with insolence, as men wish.
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21 327 I supposed that it was not surprising that women reduced to bondage, collared and branded, denied by the strictures of their condition the mockeries of male imitation, and finding the impediments to the manifestation of their deepest and most secret nature removed, should gradually find themselves m...
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22 102 This world was no stranger to the glories and honesties of human nature.
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22 114 How unhappy she had been on Earth! How absurd and piteous had been her attempts to conform to imposed stereotypes so heinously alien to her nature.
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22 118 The shaping of heads and the bindings of feet, such gross interferences with nature, are common knowledge; but the shapings and bindings of minds, even more hideous, seems seldom detected.
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22 127 But then that is one of the inconveniences of nature, that it can upon occasion prove a political embarrassment.
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23 21 Such a dance usually proceeds in clearly defined phrases, evident not merely in the expressions and movements of the girl but in the nature of the accompanying music.
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23 173 We can be conquered, but nature cannot.
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23 174 In attempting to conquer nature, we defeat only ourselves.
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Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

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17 272 How could they forgive her such errors, such faults? How could they forgive her her very nature, when it was a veritable defiance of their views, a repudiation of all they stood for, a nature which, by its very existence, contradicted the radical falsities which they desired to promote and from whic...
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Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

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13 1184 Indeed, a natural civilization might be the natural flowering of nature itself, not an antithesis to nature, not a contradiction to nature, not a poison nor a trammel to it, but a stage or aspect of it, a form which nature itself can take".
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13 1183 A rational, informed civilization can even, in a sense, refine and improve upon nature; it can, so to speak, bring nature to fruition.
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14 266 The free woman is expected to pervert her nature in the furs, behaving as a cultural identical rather than as what she is by nature, the servant and slave of her master.
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15 97 It is the first time that they have found themselves in the order of nature, and as what they are, and it is the first time that they have found themselves being looked at, frankly, and honestly, within the order of nature, and as what they are, females, appropriate objects of male predation and des...
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Book 18. (4 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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28 125 Once this is institutionalized and legalized, as it is on Gor, we have, then, the union of nature and civilization, a union in which civilization no longer functions as a counterbiological antithesis to nature but rather, perhaps, as an extension and flowering of nature herself, a union in which nat...
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12 511 "No, no, no," she wept, "I am a poor slave only because I am unresponsive! That is my nature! I cannot help it!" "That is not your nature," I told her.
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22 191 "But even if she is not so fortunate as to be owned by such a man, there is a gratification for her in being made to kneel and obey, and, will-lessly, serve, a gratification connected with the fulfillment of her nature as lover and slave, and connected, too, with the knowledge that she is now at las...
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44 224 And, interestingly, such things do not become "second nature" for them so much as, as their tightnesses and rigidities are worked through, they reveal their natural "first nature," the genetically coded femininity which is their heritage as a female, a heritage often concealed and crusted over by pr...
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Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 614 But why, I asked myself, irritatedly, should a civilization be congenial to nature? Is it not far better, I asked myself, for a civilization to contradict and frustrate nature; is it not far better for it to deny and subvert nature; is it not far better for it to blur natural distinctions and confus...
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3 617 "By means of different garbs, then," she said, "it is natural that these important and fundamental differences be marked, the garbs of men being appropriate to their nature, for example, to their size and strength, and those of women to their nature, for example, to their softness and beauty".
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6 612 Given the sovereignty of males in nature, general among the mammals and universal among the primates, it was natural enough, I supposed, that in a civilization congenial to nature, rather than in one opposed to it, that an institution such as female slavery might exist.
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30 610 I wondered if it was he who, in the true rightfulness of nature, was my master, if it were he who, in the true rightfulness of nature, owned me.
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36 1278 Gorean sexuality is accepting of desire, possessiveness, submission, dominance, ownership and the mastery, and inordinate pleasure, of the genetically coded orchestrations of nature, these enhanced within, and expressed within, an open, honest civilization, one emergent from nature, not one in contr...
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Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

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21 44 Nature welcomed and accepted is nature in health; nature rejected and thwarted is nature crippled, nature poisoned.
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2 1622 "Also, it could provide you with a way of negating your self-alienation, so to speak, of resolving doubts, uncertainties, and confusions, of ridding yourself of self-conflict and self-division, of resolving the tensions within you, the results of an acculturation warring with and frustrating nature,...
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5 243 She then sees to it, with all the consequences, physical, psychological and emotional, attendant upon it, consequences which, at first, are sometimes found horrifying or disturbing but which, ultimately, because of their relation to her depth nature, when she surrenders to this depth nature, are fou...
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6 211 Did they truly confuse them with walls of stone and the forces of weaponry? Did they understand the differences between the lines and colors on maps and the realities of a physical terrain? To what extent did they comprehend the fictional or mythical nature of those castles within which they took re...
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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22 218 Others, like the one referred to by the proprietor, encourage the young man to see the female in terms of her most basic and radical meaning, in the terms of her deepest and true nature, that nature which is most biologically fundamental to her, that nature which is that of the inestimable prize, th...
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15 42 Many Goreans believe that woman is nature's gift to man, that nature has designed her for his stimulation, pleasure, and service.
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21 281 It seemed that she was beginning, timidly and hopefully, to suspect and experience the true nature of her sexuality, that she might now be daring to think of fulfilling her softness and nature, daring to think of what it might be to be, fully and truly, what she actually was, a female.
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25 2249 "The occasional existence of such love, and its possibility, however," I said, "and many men fear it, because of its momentous and binding nature, just as many women long for it, because of their desire to pair bond, should not cause us to overlook the many commoner prerogatives of nature, those nev...
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26 1868 "For some women," she said, "the self-surrender of herself into the chains of the slaver is doubtless not only a courageous act but a marvelously beautiful and self-fulfilling one, being a public confession of her nature, and her joyful acceptance of, and recognition of, what, in the light of that n...
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Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

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2 7 Nonetheless my life had changed, somehow, in perspective or understanding, if not greatly in overt deed or obvious fact, that night when I had seen myself as I was, or might be, in the mirror, when I had come to incontrovertibly learn my true nature, a nature which must be forever denied, thwarted a...
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1 127 But where? Surely, somewhere in nature, there must be such men! Surely somewhere in nature there must be an explanation for my needs.
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1 134 I considered what might be the answer, the response, in nature, to the needs I felt, if there was one, what might be the nature of the startling organic whole, if it existed, the natural relationship, if there should be such, in which they figured.
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1 139 I sensed then what might be the nature of the complement in nature to my needs, what might be their flower, their sea, their carnivore, and I stood there terrified, sensing the imperiousness of that complement, its power, its uncompromising ferocity, what it might be to be its object, and knowing th...
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11 650 How absurd then, and artificial, and unreal, suddenly, seemed Earth, with all its preposterous political myths, its subversion of nature, its insidious conditioning programs, its pretendings to deny the simple, obvious truths of aristocracy, its contrived trammelings of right and power, its desperat...
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34 384 I loved him! I loved him more than anything! But I had failed my first test with him! I had only wanted to know, foolishly, the nature of my power with him, if any, and the nature of the discipline to which I might be subject.
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Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

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21 959 Nature fulfilled is nature triumphant, and nature triumphant is nature as it should be.
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24 462 Apparently she had not hitherto understood the nature of the monitory leather, the nature of its counsel, the nature of its reprimand.
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9 247 Accordingly, men must then either fulfill their nature, or deny it, and in denying their nature, deny us ours, for ours is the complement to theirs.
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23 94 Beneath the confusions, the teachings, the conditionings, the resentments, the envy, lies the natural woman, the animal, with its genetic heritage, the animal which in the way of nature, in our own and related species, is in the keeping of the male, subordinate and submissive to him, a relationship ...
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24 503 At an end then were her vanities and her inhibitions, her reservations and hesitations, her reluctances and all the stultifying pretenses and falsities of her hitherto shackling, self-denying, alleged liberty, the burdensome equipages of meretricious, traitorous, self-betraying claims and dignities,...
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24 537 Who knows the nature of the bondage in which she will find herself, other than the fact that it will be absolute? Who knows the nature of the man who will buy her, other than the fact that he will be her unqualified master, and that his power over her, and his ownership of her, will be absolute? "Mo...
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Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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45 120 Shall the verr decide the diet of the larl, the tabuk that of that tarn? But there are laws here, too; nature denied is not nature overcome, but nature twisted; nature repudiated is not nature conquered but nature poisoned, and poisons have their nature, as well; in the end she will have her vengean...
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37 191 Nature! Nature! Is that truly so hard to understand? Women desire strong men; they long for true masters; women despise weak men; they want to be taken in hand by strong men, and owned; they know males are dominant by nature, and they want them to be so; how else can they be fulfilled women; they re...
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1 889 How bondage had transformed Temione! What is the magic, the mystery of the brand, the collar, I wondered, that by means of them such marvels might be wrought? It had to do, I supposed, with the nature of woman, her deepest needs, with the order of nature, with the pervasive themes of dominance and s...
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Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

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16 287 Did they sense the danger we might pose to them, if they were weak, or permissive, or lenient? Was that why they were as they were? Was that why they put us in collars and kept us at their feet, because they knew us so well? But how could we be women if they were not men? Or had they profited from s...
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29 512 Thus I wanted you to see me not as what I was, in some legal sense, a free woman, but as what I was in my heart, what I had come to long to be, as a full woman, as one who, in the order of nature, belongs to men, as one who, in the order of nature, is a man's slave".
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Book 27. (10 results) Prize of Gor

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13 105 Perhaps this has to do with nature, and its nature.
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17 1204 To men such as these, the mighty, untamed, unreduced men of Gor, what can women be but prey and quarry? What can we be before such men but intimidated, dominated slaves, but eager, yielding, responsive, supplicatory slaves? Such men are true men, men as nature intended them to be, and before them, a...
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25 168 It was an Earth question, a question from another world, a distant, superficial, polluted, noisy, unnatural, artificial world, a question from another ethos, one not one with nature, but one at war with nature; it was not a biological question, not a natural question, not a Gorean question.
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26 186 The natural human female, Ellen supposed, is not a social artifact, despite what she had been taught to mindlessly repeat, not a construct of social engineers who neither understand her nor care for her, creatures interested ultimately only in their own power and influence; she is not, ideally, a tw...
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27 736 I could break them no more than the chains men are so fond of putting on me! Do not such things show me that I am a female? Do they not show me the nature of men and women, and who it is who is at the mercy of whom, and who are the masters, and who the slaves! Sometimes Ellen loved to be bound, for ...
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27 1487 The human female longs for the fullest satisfaction of her nature and needs, and nature has dictated its conditions, those under which, and only under which, this satisfaction can be obtained, conditions which, articulated, refined and enhanced in a civilized context, are institutionalized as the re...
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27 3259 The bodies, Ellen realized, would be surrendered to nature, to wind and rain, to sleet and snow, to heat and cold, to sleen, to urts, to jards, to the vast, mysterious nature from which, long ago, they had sprung.
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29 262 "That is our place! That is our place in nature! We long to be in our place in nature! We belong at your feet! We beg our collars! We lift and kiss our chains in gratitude! We ask only to kneel, to be used, and to serve!" "But do not speak of caring!" cried Selius Arconious.
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30 608 To the ignorant, fearful and weak these truths must, I suppose, seem frightening, perhaps as other truths concerning nature, long ago, the movement of the earth, the nature of the sun, the distance of stars, seemed so frightening.
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30 679 But with you, on the same chain, perhaps prized even more highly than you, their collars locked as securely as yours, their chains clasping as perfectly, their bodies as bared, may be other women, they selected as carefully as you, quiet, gentle, loving, needful, natural women, women less removed in...
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Book 28. (4 results) Kur of Gor

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29 127 A civilization need not be antithetical to nature, a contradiction to nature, an affront to nature.
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1 560 She does, of course, inquire into the nature of Gor, and begins to have a sense of the nature of the fate which might await her there, a young, beautiful female of Earth.
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55 133 In a civilization the ways of nature are not only understood and accepted, even embraced, but, further, beyond anything known in barbarism, they are refined, enhanced, and incorporated deliberately and inextricably into the very nature of society".
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64 94 They feel that is where they belong, by nature, and they will have them there, that nature's loveliest gift to them is the natural female; their slave.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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9 325 "There is no reason why a civilization cannot be an expression of nature, rather than her enemy, in its way an enhancement of nature, a celebration of nature".
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Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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25 68 Doubtless some of these were intended to locate and ascertain the numbers and dispositions of Lord Yamada's forces in the vicinity, but others were apparently of a much subtler nature, some to instigate apprehension which might spread naturally to the enemy, with appeals to fear and superstition, an...
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Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 140 What of the simple test of life consequences? Is it obvious that an unnatural culture which produces vehemence, confusion, hysteria, sickness, treachery, hypocrisy, mass murder, and hatred is obviously superior to a culture compatible with nature, and her kinds and differences, a culture in which na...
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4 147 And I knew, too, that there were men and women, and that each had been bred beside the other, for countless generations, each in the light of the other, and I suspected, from my thoughts, my needs, and dreams, that they were not identical, but that each sex, so radically dimorphic, had its own wonde...
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4 260 It struck me as strange that she had used the expression 'in this world'? What other world could there be? Could there be another world, one in which one need not strive to ignore or repudiate what one truly was? Was it so wrong, to be true to one's nature, whatever it might be? Was nature so terrib...
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4 273 But, too, there are many places where the enemies of nature are less entrenched and powerful than here, places where it does not occur to men and women that obvious biotruths, such as the complementary nature of the sexes, are to be routinely suppressed".
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5 376 "No!" "What," he asked, "if you should meet not the men of your world, boys, half-men, subdued men, furtive glancers, guilty, shamed, crippled men, men trained to betray their nature, taught to suppress their manhood, but other men, natural men, quiet, unpretentious, powerful, confident, self-assure...
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7 51 If there was a human nature, had it been fabricated, truly, so recently? Might it not have been formed in other times and other places, a consequence of other conditions, as an entailment of alternative realities? Might we have been formed for one world and precipitated into another, a quite differe...
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7 733 Accordingly, they would compete with one another, it seems, each attempting to outdo the other with respect to their imperviousness to the liabilities commonly associated with a lower nature, an animal nature.
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8 387 Had I been capable of wondering, on Earth, if I were a slave, a rightful slave, a slave by nature? How foolish now seemed such abstract, idle ruminations! It was now confirmed upon me, that I, the former Allison Ashton-Baker, was a slave, and not only by law, however absolute that legal shackle migh...
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8 1987 Too, once they had been truly knelt, their sexual drives and needs would begin to rage within them; they would become aware of their biological being and its nature, that they were biologically the properties of men; and, pursuant to these understandings and bodily changes, and knowing themselves ch...
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10 171 Could I not win for myself, with a smile, a tear, a word, a frown, an easy life? But I was unsure of these things, for much here seemed paradoxical, the nature of she who had bargained for me, and bought me, and the nature of he who was her agent, and had claimed me in her behalf.
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20 34 This has to do, doubtless, with a great many things, but, one supposes, it has to do, given its pervasiveness, with nature, nature given the institutional enhancements of civilization.
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Book 32. (12 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 119 Perhaps the major difference between these worlds is that in one nature is feared and rejected, with the result that civilization is essentially a denial of nature, almost its antithesis, a war conducted against a suspect nature, as though nature was an enemy, to be suppressed at all costs, rather t...
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25 14 Goreans view themselves as within nature, perhaps as a part of nature; surely, at least, they respect her and love her, and it would never occur to them to scorn and deny her; they live with her, not against her; on the other hand, we commonly view ourselves as outside of nature, and surely, on the ...
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52 611 But why, I asked myself, should I be embarrassed by, or shamed by, or disconcerted by, signs of, and the obvious consequences of, health, life, hormonal richness, and vitality? Had not nature made me so, designed me to be a yielded, surrendered slave in the arms of masters? And in the collar, and in...
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52 783 You should have been left to pine and languish in your shallow, tepid world, left, if anything, to the timid, polite, fumbling attentions of psychologically emasculated pseudomales, conditioned from infancy to disown their own nature, and deny their own blood, the creatures of a pathological world w...
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5 203 Why should a man be ashamed of his feelings, and desires, and why should a woman be ashamed of her feelings and desires? Did it truly take ten thousand generations to discover that nature was a mistake? Is it not surprising to be taught the subversion of one's nature, to be ashamed of, deny, and fig...
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5 234 Or more, what woman would? How pathetic that would be, how one would despise such a man, such a betrayer of his nature, or one lacking the nature of man, but rather to one who is incomparably superior to myself, naturally powerful, commanding, and virile, one who would see me as I am, and do with me...
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6 49 On the other hand, I had gathered, from the reports of instructors and guards, as I had expected, that she was a woman who understood that she was a woman, and accordingly, in the order of nature, wished to defer to men, and be pleasing to them These inclinations are obvious consequences of the natu...
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11 101 How estranged from nature it was! Was nature so fearful that it must be denied, and betrayed? In whose interest was this treason? Was the biography of a world so terrible that gates must be barred against it? Were there not green fields, bracing winds, and a warm sun outside the gates? You can burn ...
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25 246 Is it appropriate that a culture be founded on division, and hate? Nature denied is nature poisoned.
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40 40 Who could benefit from the denial of nature but the unnatural, the fearers of nature? To be sure, all, sooner or later, learn their womanhood.
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50 600 Walked away! I was nothing! I was scorned! I was miserable, distraught, devastated, furious, helpless, my hopes vanished, my world collapsed! All the seething obstinacy my world had conditioned into me erupted; all the lies and falsities of my former world reasserted themselves, proclaiming nature a...
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54 179 Is it only that they have failed to sully soil and water, refused to create poisoned atmospheres, refused to reduce and shame themselves, had no interest in ascending prescribed treadmills, placed in the midst of nothing, leading nowhere? Can the steps of a false journey not be retraced? It is possi...
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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42 228 I shall recall him to his better nature, his true nature".
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42 229 "He has now found his better nature," I said, "and here, on Gor, his true nature.
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57 39 These reports, certainly at first, given the confusion at the front, the haste with which they were drafted, and the limitations on content imposed by the nature of the small, swift carriers, as well as the contradictory nature of some of these accounts, seemed to have created little more than alarm...
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Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

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6 75 But there are other worlds, better worlds, other civilizations, better civilizations, higher civilizations, civilizations in which nature is not abhorred and denied but celebrated and accepted, civilizations not opposed to nature but allied with her, supportive of her, promotive of her, civilization...
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1 55 I had been taught to deny the most obvious and profound biological realities, to dismiss or despise patent differences, to deny nature, the very nature of which I was an outcome.
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8 285 Nature, unlike self-serving political programs, is not the product of ideologically motivated committees; who would seize control of education and the means of communication, to bend innocent, trusting children, and even unwitting populations, to their views; nature is an obstacle to such programs; ...
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53 19 The location of walls, for example, as well as their height and nature, as one would expect with military architecture, is heavily influenced by a consideration of the resources to be protected, their extent and nature, and the topographical features of the land.
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Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

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41 158 Yet how important is the master! So much depended on the master! Did it matter, really, if the master was a good master, whether he was of Ar or Brundisium, or far Turia or even Port Kar? Did it matter, really, whether he was of Cos or Tyros, or of the mainland? I knew that docilities and submission...
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Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

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46 88 "Some," I said, "the restless and discontented, the miserable and unhappy, those who fear nature and perhaps themselves, those who seek social, political, and economic power by pretending that nature does not exist".
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