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| 2 | 260 |
"Yes," he said, "but since the hypothesis of another world is regarded as so incredible, this evidence has been interpreted to accord with other theories; sometimes even imperfections in instrumentation have been supposed rather than admit the presence of another world in our solar system". |
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| 14 | 34 |
Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution ... |
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| 14 | 49 |
"Before the sword," he said, "there is no right, no wrong, only fact—a world of what is and what is not, rather than a world of what should be and what should not be. |
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| 1 | 3 |
As far as I know, however, I have no connection with the Venetian explorer who carried the banner of Henry VII to the New World. |
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| 1 | 8 |
Let us say simply that it is not a common name, not common on this world of ours. |
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| 1 | 15 |
Like a large number of young men, I found myself passably educated, able to parse a sentence or so in Greek, and familiar enough with the abstractions of philosophy and economics to know that I would not be likely to fit into that world to which they claimed to bear some obscure relation. |
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| 1 | 21 |
One of the colleges to which I applied, one perhaps somewhat less perceptive than the rest, a small liberal arts college for men in New Hampshire, entered into negotiations, and I had soon received what was to be my first and, I suppose, my last appointment in the academic world. |
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| 1 | 112 |
I lay awake for a long time, feeling alone, yet not alone, as one sometimes does in the wilderness, feeling as if one were the only living object on the planet and as if the closest things to one—one's fate and destiny perhaps—lay outside our small world, somewhere in the remote, alien... |
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| 1 | 232 |
The soil of my planet, my world. |
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| 2 | 57 |
I was surprised to find myself accepting this stranger not only as a being of my world, but as the father I couldn't remember. |
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| 2 | 79 |
I learned later that on this alien world a strong man may feel and express emotions, and that the hypocrisy of constraint is not honored on this planet as it is on mine. |
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| 2 | 90 |
I nodded, not wanting to speak, wanting him to tell me the thousand things I had to know, to dispel the mysteries that had torn me from my native world and brought me to this strange room, this planet, to him, my father. |
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| 2 | 113 |
"Gor," he said, "is the name of this world. |
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| 2 | 118 |
"In peasant villages on this world," he continued, "each hut was originally built around a flat stone which was placed in the center of the circular dwelling. |
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| 2 | 171 |
Even the technology of the envelope with its patterned thumb-lock, the disorientation of my compass, and the ship that had brought me, unconscious, to this strange world, argued for an incredible grasp of unusual, precise, and manipulable forces. |
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| 2 | 192 |
My father then explained to me something of the legends of the Priest-Kings, and I gathered that they seemed to be true to this degree at least—that the Priest-Kings could destroy or control whatever they wished, that they were, in effect, the divinities of this world. |
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| 2 | 194 |
It was rumored, according to my father, that they cultivated holiness in their mountains, and in their contemplation could not be concerned with the realities and evils of the outside and unimportant world. |
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| 2 | 198 |
"There is at least one area, however," said my father, "in which the Priest-Kings do take a most active interest in this world, and that is the area of technology. |
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| 2 | 201 |
Further, there is no mechanized transportation or communication equipment or detection devices such as the radar and sonar equipment so much in evidence in the military establishments of your world. |
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| 2 | 205 |
It crosses your mind that there must exist minds on this world capable of designing such things as, say, rifles and armored vehicles". |
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| 2 | 225 |
My father then spoke to me of the world on which I found myself. |
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| 2 | 238 |
He added, "That is why I like to think of the planet as the Counter-Earth, not only because of its resemblance to our native world, but because, as a matter of fact, it is placed as a counterpoise to the Earth. |
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| 2 | 250 |
The Priest-Kings might gravitationally warp the space in their vicinity, causing light or radio waves to be diffused, curved, or deflected in such a way as not to expose their world". |
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| 2 | 262 |
"Surely you know," he laughed, "one must distinguish between the data to be interpreted and the interpretation of the data, and one chooses, normally, the interpretation that preserves as much as possible of the old world view, and, in the thinking of the Earth, there is no place for Gor, its true s... |
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| 3 | 25 |
In his way, he linked me, this moment, and himself with generations of men who had pondered on the world and its meaning. |
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| 3 | 57 |
Religious matters on this world tend to be rather carefully guarded by the Caste of Initiates, who allow members of other castes little participation in their sacrifices and ceremonies. |
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| 3 | 70 |
For example, the population as a whole, the castes below the High Castes, were encouraged to believe that their world was a broad, flat disk. |
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| 3 | 126 |
The ancestors of some of them might have been Chaldeans or Celts or Syrians or Englishmen brought to this world over a period of centuries from different civilizations. |
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| 3 | 165 |
His whole body, his carriage, the holding of his head bespoke the warrior, a man who knew his weapons and, on the simple world of Gor, knew that he could kill almost any man who might stand against him. |
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| 4 | 37 |
The hills and plains of Gor were a blaze of colors far below me, and it may have been my imagination, but it seemed almost as if I could see the curve of the world. |
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| 4 | 110 |
I decided I disapproved of the Gorean devices for separating mortals from their beds as much as I loathed the alarm clocks and clock radios of my own world. |
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| 5 | 38 |
I could not help feeling sorry for her, even in the stern world of Gor. |
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| 5 | 107 |
"Why?" What could I tell her? That I had come from another world, that I was determined that all the ways of Gor should not be mine, or that I had cared for her, somehow, so helpless in her condition—that she had moved me to regard her not as an instrumentality of mine or of the Council, but ... |
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| 6 | 180 |
In the barbaric world of Gor, the Robes of Concealment are deemed necessary to protect the women from the binding fibers of roving tarnsmen. |
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| 8 | 17 |
In a moment her world had crumbled. |
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| 11 | 59 |
How many of the women of my native planet, I wondered, did not with care consider the finances, the property of their prospective mates? How many of them did not, for all practical purposes, sell themselves, bartering their bodies for the goods of the world? Here on Gor, however, I observed ironical... |
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| 12 | 72 |
In the glade by the swamp forests, in the grain fields of the empire, on the great highway of Ar, in the regal, exotic caravan of Mintar, I had found the woman I loved, a scion of a barbaric race on a remote and unknown world. |
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| 15 | 249 |
"Perhaps it is true, as they say, that you are that warrior brought every thousand years to Gor—brought by the Priest-Kings to change a world". |
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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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| 19 | 49 |
Now, helpless, Talena lay almost within the wing span of my tarn, so near to me and yet a world away. |
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| 19 | 99 |
I did not even know if they were human or nonhuman, but, whatever they might be, they were, with their advanced science and technology, for all practical purposes, the gods of this world. |
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| 19 | 170 |
In our fighting we had been all but oblivious of the world around us. |
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| 20 | 5 |
I have refused to return to England, and I will remain in this country from which I departed, years ago, for that distant world which holds what I most love. |
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| 20 | 6 |
I can see the blazing sun this July afternoon, and know that behind it, counterpoised with my native planet, lies another world. |
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| 20 | 7 |
And I wonder if on that world a girl, now a woman, thinks of me, and perhaps, too, of the secrets I have told her lie behind her sun, Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone. |
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| 20 | 10 |
The shape of a world had been altered, the rivers of a planet's history turned to new channels. |
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| 20 | 57 |
It was simple enough to feign amnesia, and what other account of those seven months would my world accept? I spent a few days in a public hospital, under observation, and was then allowed to leave. |
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| 20 | 70 |
Two or three times a year I have returned to the mountains of New Hampshire, to look again on that great flat rock, to spend a night there, in case I might see once again that silver disk in the sky, in case once again I might be summoned by the Priest-Kings to that other world. |
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| 20 | 72 |
Who or what are the Priest-Kings that they should so determine the lives of others, that they should rule a planet, terrorize the cities of a world, commit men to the Flame Death, tear lovers from each other's arms? No matter how fearful their power, they must be challenged. |
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| 1 | 102 |
He seemed tall, strange, almost of another world in that subdued light, in that quiet atmosphere of small, genial civilized noises. |
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| 2 | 4 |
In that state, as once long before, I had come to this world. |
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| 2 | 14 |
So standing, the sun upon me, without thinking I raised my arms as in pagan prayer to acknowledge the power of the Priest-Kings, which had once again brought me from Earth to this world, the power which once before had torn me from Gor when they were finished with me, taking me from my adopted city,... |
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| 4 | 40 |
It glided away into the darkness, perhaps not fully convinced that it was not alone, a young animal ready to neglect and overlook those slight traces that can spell the difference between death and survival in Gor's brutal and predatory world. |
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| 5 | 53 |
Its stones and its people have been scattered to the corners of the world, and no two stones and no two men of Ko-ro-ba may stand again side by side". |
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| 5 | 61 |
"Then be it so," he said, "you are henceforth condemned to wander the world alone and friendless, with no city, with no walls to call your own, with no Home Stone to cherish. |
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| 5 | 64 |
"What of my father, my friends, the people of my city?" "Scattered to the corners of the world," said the robed figure, "and not a stone may stand upon a stone". |
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| 6 | 48 |
Women, on this barbaric world, are often regarded, unfortunately, as little more than love prizes, the fruits of conquest and seizure. |
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| 6 | 130 |
Occasionally the Gorean, like his brothers in our world, perhaps even more frequently, learns the meaning of love. |
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| 12 | 78 |
Poets on Gor, as in my native world, were regarded with some skepticism and thought to be a little foolish, but it had not occurred to anyone that they might suffer from divine madness or be the periodic recipients of the inspiration of the gods. |
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| 16 | 92 |
As the world slowly turned under me I felt my legs and arms, limp, as weak as fog, thrown roughly together. |
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| 19 | 95 |
"Let it be done," said the men, first one and then another, until there was a sober chorus of assent, quiet but powerful, and I knew that never before in this harsh world had men spoken thus. |
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| 19 | 157 |
As all men of Gor I knew that their power inspired terror throughout a world and that it could not be withstood. |
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| 19 | 161 |
Somewhere in the midst of those icy escarpments inaccessible even to the wild tarn, they waited for me, those fit gods of this harsh world. |
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| 22 | 167 |
Yet as the status of these women became more ennobled and less clearly defined the subtle tensions of dominance and submission, instinctual throughout the animal world, tended to assert themselves. |
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| 22 | 171 |
And just as in our own world it is possible to condition entire populations to believe what is, from the standpoint of another population, incomprehensible and absurd, so in Tharna both the men and the women came eventually to believe the myths or the distortions advantageous to female dominance. |
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| 26 | 7 |
From that point whether or not it survives will depend like so many other things in this barbaric world I have come to love—on the inscrutable will of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 26 | 15 |
Her ruler—the gracious and beautiful Lara—is surely one of the wisest and most just of rulers on this barbaric world, and hers has been the torturous task of reuniting a city disrupted by civil strife, of making peace among factions and dealing fairly with all. |
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| 26 | 106 |
I have wondered about the Priest-Kings and their power, their ships and agents, their plans for their world and mine; but most importantly I must learn why my city was destroyed and its people scattered, why it is that no stone may stand upon another stone; and I must learn the fate of my friends, m... |
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| 26 | 123 |
And on this barbaric world I have seen it in all its beauty and cruelty, in all its glory and sadness. |
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| 29 | 144 |
Did it wish me to comb the antennae? Was it conscious? Was it mad with pain? I stood not understanding and then the Priest-King did what he wished: with a toss of his great golden head he hurled his antennae against my blade, cutting them from his head, and then, after a moment, having closed himsel... |
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| 33 | 2 |
It was a strange but rapid journey, and as we leaped chasms and seemed almost to swim in the cold air I told myself that Misk and his Priest-Kings and the humans that were engineers in the Nest were losing the battle that would decide whether men and Priest-Kings might, working together, save a worl... |
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| 35 | 127 |
If I should attempt to help Misk, what would this mean, ultimately? Would it not be to surrender my race to the mercies of the people of Sarm and the Priest-Kings who had served him, or would it be ultimately to protect my race until it had learned to live with itself, until it had reached the matur... |
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| 1 | 13 |
It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate... |
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| 1 | 94 |
It is said that the Priest-Kings know whatever transpires on their world and that the mere lifting of their hand can summon all the powers of the universe. |
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| 1 | 96 |
I myself had traveled in a ship of the Priest-Kings which had twice carried me to this world; I had seen their power so subtly exercised as to alter the movements of a compass needle, so grossly demonstrated as to destroy a city, leaving behind not even the stones of what had once been a dwelling pl... |
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| 2 | 64 |
I think it would be fair to say that it is substantially feline; at any rate its grace and sinuous power remind me of the smaller but similarly fearsome jungle cats of my old world. |
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| 2 | 66 |
If there is an optimum configuration for a land predator, I suppose on my old world the palm must go to the Bengal tiger; but on Gor the prize belongs indisputably to the mountain larl; and I cannot but believe that the structural similarities between the two animals, though of different worlds, are... |
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| 3 | 58 |
If I had seen this man in my own world, this small, rotund, merry gentleman with his florid coloring and cheerful manner I would have thought him necessarily English, and of a sort one seldom encounters nowadays. |
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| 3 | 59 |
If one had encountered him in the eighteenth century, one might have taken him for a jolly, snuff-sniffing, roisterous country squire, knowing himself the salt of the earth, not above twitting the parson nor pinching the serving girls; in the nineteenth century he would have owned an old book shop a... |
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| 7 | 42 |
This sweet, fierce, liquid speech is the common bond that tends to hold together the Gorean world. |
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| 9 | 10 |
Gor is a man's world. |
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| 9 | 11 |
And yet on this world I have seen great numbers of women who were both beautiful and splendid. |
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| 9 | 14 |
On the whole I find her more joyful than many of her Earth-inhabiting sisters who, theoretically at least, enjoy a more lofty status, although it is surely true that on my old world I have met several women with something of the Gorean zest for acknowledging the radiant truth of their sex, the gifts... |
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| 10 | 2 |
What in the passageways I had taken to be the scent of Priest-Kings had actually been the residue of odor-signals which Priest-Kings, like certain social insects of our world, use in communicating with one another. |
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| 15 | 71 |
"I myself was hatched," said Misk, "before we brought our world into your solar system". |
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| 16 | 56 |
Consider what would happen if we allowed him free technological development on our world". |
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| 16 | 106 |
"I then, by means of an Implanted Agent, unconscious of the message being read through him, instructed your father to write the letter which you found in the mountains on your native world". |
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| 16 | 125 |
"It frightened her," said Misk, "and your father asked that she be allowed to return to Earth, for, loving her, he wished her to be happy and also perhaps he wanted you to know something of his old world". |
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| 18 | 138 |
"You would not wish to see this beauty and this power pass from our common world, would you?" asked Sarm. |
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| 20 | 199 |
On my old world when a woman is saved by a man she may, I understand, with propriety bestow upon him a grateful kiss and perhaps, if we may believe the tales in these matters, consider him more seriously because of his action as a possible, eventual companion in wedlock. |
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| 26 | 260 |
I wondered of the struggles of my own world as well as on Gor, struggles which over millennia had shaped the blood and inmost being of my species, perhaps conflicts over tunnels in cliffs to be fought with the savage cave bear, long dangerous weeks spent hunting the same game as the saber-toothed ti... |
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| 26 | 261 |
As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ... |
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| 26 | 263 |
If she were too independent she would die in such a world and if she did not mate her race would die. |
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| 26 | 266 |
I smiled to myself as I thought of the small things on my old world that at such remoteness perhaps reenacted the ancient ceremony of the caves, the carrying of the bride over the threshold, perhaps as a prisoner, the tiny wedding bands, perhaps a small reminder of the primitive thongs that bound th... |
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| 27 | 34 |
I did not know the location of the female egg nor could I have tended it had I known; and, further, that the race of Priest-Kings should wither and die did not seem the proper business of a human, particularly considering my hatred for them, and my rejection of their mode of regulating in so many im... |
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| 27 | 35 |
Had they not destroyed my city? Had they not scattered its people? Had they not destroyed men by Flame Death and brought them, willing or no, to their own world on the Voyages of Acquisition? Had they not implanted their control nets in human beings and spun the hideous mutations of the Gur Carriers... |
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| 27 | 87 |
It was hard to imagine her, uncounted generations ago, with wings of gold in the open air, in the blue sky of Gor, glistening and turning with her lover borne on the high, glorious, swift winds of this distant, savage world. |
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| 28 | 209 |
"On your old world," said Misk, "gravity is still as unexplored a natural phenomenon as electricity and magnetism once were, and yet you have mastered to some extent those phenomena—and we Priest-Kings have to some extent mastered gravity". |
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| 28 | 225 |
I would not have believed the ship was possible but I found it difficult to offer the arguments of my old world's physics against the fact of Misk's success. |
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| 28 | 226 |
Indeed, it is through the control of gravity that the Priest-Kings had, long ago, brought their world into our system, an engineering feat which might have been otherwise impossible without perhaps the draining of gleaming Thassa itself for its hydrogen nuclei. |
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| 28 | 227 |
The flight of the disk itself is incredibly smooth and the effect is much as if the world and not yourself were moving. |
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| 28 | 230 |
It is much as if one sat still in a room and the world whirled and sped about one. |
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| 31 | 183 |
I imagined the panic in the cities of Gor, the pitching ships at sea, the stampedes of animals, and only I, of all humans, was at the place where this havoc had begun, only I was there to gaze upon the author of the destruction of a world, the golden destroyer of a planet. |
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| 32 | 9 |
"The Nest—the World," said Misk. |
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| 32 | 31 |
"He was a traitor," I said, "and betrayed the Nest and would have slain you by treachery and has now destroyed your Nest and world". |
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| 32 | 41 |
A great opening, from the sides of which stones still fell, had appeared in the ceiling of the Nest complex, opening the thick, numerous strata above it until at last through that rupture could be seen the beautiful calm sky of the world above. |
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| 32 | 77 |
I would have liked to have seen once more the surface of the world, the blue sky, the green fields beyond the black Sardar, but rather I said, "I choose to remain here with Misk, who is my friend". |
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| 32 | 94 |
His world might be crumbling about him but he would not forgo his grooming. |
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| 32 | 162 |
The Beetle drew closer, and I could see the mane hairs waving now like the fronds of some marine plant caught in the currents of its underwater world. |
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| 32 | 274 |
Parp seemed more concerned with his pipe, which seemed again in danger of going out, than he did with the world that was crumbling about him. |
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| 33 | 76 |
A wild, glad shout broke from the throats of the assembled multitude as the men suddenly began to understand that their world was returning to its normal order. |
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| 33 | 111 |
Suddenly I was very sad, and I wondered what would be the fate of humans from the Nest, if they should attempt to return to their cities or the world above. |
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| 33 | 113 |
With great suddenness I realized that what I knew, and what others knew, would make no difference to the world of Gor. |
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| 34 | 19 |
"We met here," said the Older Tarl, "and since it seemed the world would end we decided that we would stand together one last time—in spite of the will of Priest-Kings—that we would stand together one last time as men of Ko-ro-ba". |
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| 35 | 24 |
"You have saved our world," I said. |
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| 35 | 124 |
And my race—it would live on Gor—at least for the time, because of what Misk and Priest-Kings had done to preserve their world for them. |
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| 35 | 177 |
How could I tell him that he looked, with incredulity and horror, on one of the awesome denizens of the grim Sardar, on one of the fabulous and mysterious monarchs of his very world, on one of the gods of Gor—on a Priest-King? "I can hurl my spear through it," said the man with the spear. |
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| 7 | 74 |
Although there were risks involved I tried to translate as exactly as I could, letting Miss Cardwell speak as she would, though her words must often have sounded fantastic to the Tuchuks, for it was largely of a world alien to them that she spoke—a world not of autonomous cities but of huge n... |
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| 7 | 210 |
There must be others—others, who did not wish me to succeed in my work, who wished Priest-Kings, the race, to die, others who were capable even of bringing humans from Earth for their purposes—technologically advanced—others who were, perhaps, cautiously, invisibly, at war with ... |
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| 8 | 102 |
I tried to explain to Kamchak that her old world had not prepared her for these things, for the slaveries of her old world are of a different kind, more subtle and invisible, thought by some not even to exist. |
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| 16 | 299 |
He might well be, and I supposed it true, merely an agent—but for whom, or what?—something that would challenge even Priest-Kings—but, it must be, something that feared Priest-Kings, or it would already have struck—this world, or Earth—something that wanted Priest-... |
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| 27 | 134 |
Whatever she might have been before, a clock number, a set of records in a personnel file, an unimportant employee, with her salary and benefits, under the obligation to please and impress other employees, scarcely more important than herself, she was now alive, and free in her emotions though her f... |
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| 1 | 51 |
They are among the proudest of the peoples of Gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of Gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute with them the open, windswept plains of their world. |
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| 2 | 17 |
And if I should find the object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of Priest-Kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of Priest-Kings that so limited their development, their technology? Onc... |
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| 2 | 21 |
But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for Priest-Kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a... |
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| 5 | 7 |
That of the animals is heavy and of gold, that of the women also of gold but tiny and fine, not unlike the wedding rings of my old world. |
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| 6 | 61 |
Had the girl been brought to this world by Priest-Kings? Was she the recent victim of one of the Voyages of Acquisition? But I understood them to have been curtailed in the recent subterranean War of Priest-Kings. |
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| 6 | 101 |
The bound girl watched helplessly as the woman carried her clothing, all that she had of her old world, to a cooking fire some yards away, near the edge of the wagons. |
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| 8 | 115 |
On the dais of Kutaituchik I had feared that she might not be able to survive, that she was too weak for the world of Gor. |
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| 17 | 35 |
It might be gilled, like Gorean sharks, probably descendants of Earth sharks placed experimentally in Thassa millennia ago by Priest-Kings, or it might have the gurdo, the layered, ventral membrane, shielded by porous plating, of several of the marine predators perhaps native to Gor, perhaps brought... |
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| 18 | 68 |
Crowded about my body now were entangling filaments and spheres trying, like hands and teeth, to tear me from my work, but I struck and tore again and again and then entered the secret world beneath the membrane slashing to the left and right and suddenly the fluid began to loosen and withdraw above... |
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| 23 | 219 |
Kamchak, I knew, however, cared little for the slave, and would not be much concerned; yet her fate concerned me, and I hoped that she might live, that her beauty if not compassion or justice might have won her life for her, be it only as a Paravaci wagon slave; and then, too, I wondered again on th... |
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| 25 | 368 |
"On our world," I said, "there is much talk of persons—and little of men and women—and the men are taught that they must not be men and the women are taught that they must not be women". |
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| 25 | 393 |
"That is why," I remarked, "that upon this barbaric world the woman who cannot surrender herself is upon occasion simply conquered". |
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| 26 | 227 |
"Because," I said, "—it is the last seed of Priest-Kings—an egg—a child—the hope of Priest-Kings, to them all—everything, the world, the universe". |
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| 26 | 282 |
It was done, gone, ended! My mission had failed! The Priest-Kings would die! This world, and perhaps my other, dear Earth, would now fall to the mysterious Others, whoever or whatever they might be. |
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| 26 | 299 |
It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of Priest-Kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my friend Misk's life and its pur... |
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| 26 | 570 |
I leaped from the back of the kaiila and ran toward the wagon and the girl waiting there cried out with joy and ran to me and I swept her into my arms and our lips met and she wept, "You are safe! You are safe!" "Yes," I said, "I am safe—and you are safe—and the world is safe!" At the ... |
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| 27 | 13 |
Few it seemed to me, surprisingly perhaps, much objected to leaving the luxurious delights of the gardens of Saphrar for the freedom of the winds and prairies, the dust, the smell of bosk, the collar of a man who would master them utterly but before whom they would stand as human shes, individual, e... |
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| 17 | 459 |
And surely no woman bred to the civilities and courtesies of Earth would care to remain on a world so barbaric, a world perhaps beautiful but yet threatening and perilous, a world in which a woman is seldom permitted to be other than a woman, a world in which even the exalted Free Companion sleeps u... |
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| 11 | 115 |
We have men of their world in the House and men of our world on their planet". |
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| 12 | 81 |
Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had been popular but his straightforward attention, after he had put aside the Red of the Warrior and donned the Brown of the Administrator, to numerous and complex civil and economic matters, such as reform of the courts and laws and... |
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| 3 | 165 |
Every nerve in that old face seemed strained, as though trying to understand what might lie there beyond him in the darkness that was his world, save for the memory of the movement of pieces on a checkered board. |
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| 4 | 87 |
We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the Priest-Kings, and the Others, not Priest-Kings, who desired this world of Priest-Kings and men, and, surreptitiously and cruelly, were fighting to obtain it, though as yet, perhaps ... |
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| 5 | 89 |
"And in so doing," I laughed, "informed the entire world that the room, or whatever it was, had been entered". |
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| 5 | 101 |
"Vella," said I, "in spite of all you have been through on this world you yet retain certain of the taints of the Earth woman". |
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| 5 | 307 |
Moreover, those whom you call the Others no longer have their own world. |
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| 5 | 333 |
"Further," said Misk, "the Others are themselves a not uninteresting species, and we have permitted certain of them, prisoners taken from disabled probe ships, to live on this world, much as we have humans". |
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| 5 | 374 |
"Moreover, in line with their schemes, certain humans have been brought to this world". |
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| 5 | 412 |
"If they manage, in time, to turn a sufficient number of men against us and to arm them even primitively, our world is lost". |
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| 9 | 11 |
The largest number of slaves, however, far larger than the bred slaves considered as a group, are those who have been born free and have fallen into slavery, a not uncommon fate on this cruel, warlike world, particularly for women. |
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| 11 | 114 |
"Surely," said Flaminius, "you do not think we lack men who are familiar with the world from which these slaves have been brought. |
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| 11 | 117 |
"I myself," said Flaminius, "have visited their world and speak one of its languages". |
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| 11 | 259 |
"In the books of Tarl Cabot you have read of this world". |
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| 5 | 18 |
I knew I was no longer on my world, on the world I knew. |
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| 5 | 19 |
It was another world, a different world, one I did not know, one strange to me. |
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| 7 | 300 |
It is no surprise then that on this world men commonly, naturally, familiarly, immediately, innocently, taking such things for granted, not even thinking about it, it being part of their world, look largely upon women, even free women, in terms of their possible value as slaves, their possible value... |
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| 10 | 218 |
But here, on this world, Gor, it was not so! To be sure, on this world it was the case that men apparently had their pick of beautiful, helplessly arousable slaves, and for as little as a meaningless coin. |
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| 11 | 219 |
Perhaps, together with them, tilling the soil, we could construct a more placid world, a world in which discipline and courage, and curiosity and adventure, and doing what pleases one, would become no more than the neglected, scorned, half-forgotten anachronisms of remote barbarians. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 756 |
I knew their behavioral world; I did not know the world of their inner experience. |
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| 5 | 486 |
"On this world," whispered Alyena, "they can!" "On this world," I said, "they do". |
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| 11 | 194 |
There is, of course, a topological congruence between the world of physics and the world of experience. |
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| 11 | 196 |
Our experiential world, though quite unlike the world of physics, is well coordinated with it. |
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| 11 | 199 |
Each of these, however, the world of the man, the cuttlefish, the butterfly, the ant, the sleen, the Priest-King is congruent, though perhaps in unusual ways, with the presumably singular, unique physical world. |
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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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 829 |
On this world I was a beautiful barbarian and alien, from a world quite different, one which had not prepared me for their world. |
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| 1 | 197 |
It was on another world I stood, an unknown world. |
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| 2 | 50 |
So small a thing it seems, perhaps, that this convention should on this world not be acknowledged or respected, indeed, that, at least in my case, it did not exist, but it is not, truly, a small thing; no, to me the crumbling of this artifice, this protective device, this convention, was catastrophi... |
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| 2 | 66 |
I wondered what could be the status of women on this world, on a world where there were such men. |
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| 2 | 81 |
I wondered what could be the status of women on this world, on a world where there were such men. |
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| 2 | 907 |
Had I known the world on which I knelt, how I would have rejoiced that I had not been lashed! As I later realized, allowances were being made for me which, had I been more familiar with the world on which I found myself, would not have been made. |
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| 2 | 1108 |
How I feared a world on which there were such men, and beasts! The name of this world is Gor. |
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| 3 | 80 |
I was a girl raised in a culture predicated on the denial of primate biological realities, a girl from a world in which hypothetically cogent animals denied, denounced and hysterically strove to suppress their own animality, a world in whose social insanity even sexuality had now come to be politica... |
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| 4 | 821 |
Could there be a true escape, on a world such as this, for a branded girl? Would that mark not continue to say, to anyone, and all, softly, persistently, each instant, each moment, every hour of the day and night, when anyone might care to glance upon it, "Here is a slave"? Could there be an escape,... |
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| 9 | 429 |
Could they believe a world might exist where men, shouting political slogans, vied with one another to surrender their dominance, hastening gleefully to their own castration? Could such a world be welcomed by any save man-haters, freaks, frustrates and Lesbians, and men who were not men? Truth and p... |
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| 9 | 1089 |
Just as, in our world, it is not uncommon to seek the advice of an interior decorator in obtaining and organizing the appointments of one's own dwelling, so, too, in the Gorean world, it is not uncommon to call in a trainer and beautician to appraise and improve a girl. |
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| 9 | 1932 |
It is the Gorean world, a truly man's world, in which she is a woman. |
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| 35 | 433 |
Interestingly, and understandably, not all these women are Gorean; no; rather, many of them are from Earth, the world once my own, a world perhaps once as beautiful as Gor, now a more-neglected, grayer world, now a world too often dishonored, desecrated, and betrayed by her own children. |
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| 35 | 608 |
I wondered if she realized that women of her paleness and beauty had, in effect, like certain other types, been sexually selected for, over generations, even on her native world, a world which seldom consciously thought of itself as a world breeding slaves. |
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| 1 | 23 |
One of these worlds was a world poisoning itself, a pathological world insane and short-sighted, greed-driven and self-destructive. |
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| 2 | 320 |
The world's end was said to lie beyond Cos and Tyros, at the end of Thassa, at the world's edge. |
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| 2 | 366 |
The man of Earth thinks of the world as being essentially dead; the Gorean thinks of his world as being essentially alive; one utilizes the metaphor of the blind machine, the other the metaphor of the living being; doubtless reality exceeds all metaphors; in the face of reality doubtless all metapho... |
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| 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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| 15 | 372 |
What if I should not please him? Would he not then simply abandon me, leaving me behind, a masterless girl, a lonely, forlorn slave on a world empty of men strong enough to be a woman's master?" I supposed it was hard for one who was a slave to be in a world in which there were no masters. |
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| 35 | 441 |
The world from which they derive, of course, seems to the Kur eye one ripe for such recruitments; as they see it, it is a hypocritical world, one on which selflessness is praised while carefully and deliberately evaded, one in which greed is denounced while being frequently and often substantially r... |
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| 2 | 38 |
They would not understand a world in which dirty jokes had point, a world in which a woman's attractiveness was supposedly a function of the utilization of certain commercial products, or a world in which men and women were taught that they were the same, and in which they attempted to believe it, a... |
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| 12 | 429 |
Surely you must now know that your world is Gor, that it is the Gorean world, and only the Gorean world, which is now yours". |
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| 14 | 409 |
"How is it," she asked, "that on your world things are not as on my world?" "Gorean men are not weaklings and fools," I said. |
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| 27 | 188 |
Should one concern oneself with cattle? Let them know no more than that one day they are themselves, as they recall themselves, perhaps in many cases tense, petulant, intemperate, self-seeking, frustrated, miserable, and bored, in familiar quotidian surroundings, in a predictable and routine reality... |
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| 32 | 494 |
"It seems I was in the jungles of South America, a continent on my native world, Earth, or perhaps it was some other world. |
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| 51 | 66 |
"How long did it take you," asked the blonde, "to learn that on this world your proper position before men was on your knees?" "In my heart, seeing the men of this world, I learned it almost instantly," said Janice. |
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| 51 | 69 |
"Are the men of your world like those of this world?" "Some," said Janice, "but few". |
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| 7 | 79 |
Gor was a strong-thewed world, a new world, a world in which men might again lift their heads to the sun and laugh, a world in which they might again, sensibly, begin long journeys. |
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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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| 9 | 45 |
I did not tell them that I came from a world in which almost all the males were perfectly tamed, indeed, a world in which males were supposed to pride themselves on their inoffensiveness and agreeability. |
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| 11 | 112 |
How tragic, I thought, to be a girl of my own world, and be brought cruelly and helplessly to the world of Gor, to be made a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 182 |
She, the vain, proper, elegant young lady, so prideful, yet so confused and unhappy, so desperately concerned to profess, and adhere to, prescribed views, so conditioned to uncritically accept multiple stupidities, so concerned to be found acceptable by driven, self-seeking, moronic doctrinaires, no... |
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| 22 | 104 |
This was a different world, a brighter, fresher world, a healthier, more vigorous, more virile, more natural world. |
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| 11 | 454 |
At last I have come to a world where there are men who wish for me to please them, and will see that I do so, and want me, and will have me, a world where there are masters". |
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| 22 | 108 |
On a world such as this, a natural world, a woman such as Miss Beverly Henderson might well be found on her knees in a man's collar. |
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| 17 | 263 |
How tight, inhibited, and unhappy she had seemed there, in her politically prescribed pseudo-male attire; was that truly her world; did she not, truly, belong elsewhere, somewhere, say, in silk and a collar; how desperate she had been to subscribe to opinions imperiously imposed upon her by others; ... |
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| 17 | 401 |
And in such a world who will argue with the larl as to whether or not it should feed, or with a man as to whether or not he should be a man? In such a world the larl hunts, and the man is a man". |
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| 18 | 311 |
How I pity the unfulfilled, frustrated women of my old world whose sex and dispositions, meaningless and largely useless in the bleak labyrinths of an artificial world, must be thwarted, suppressed and denied, in the interests of economic and mechanistic exigencies. |
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| 19 | 558 |
Even today, on Earth, slavery is openly practiced in many parts of the world, and, in other parts of the world, it is known that there are men who keep their women secretly as slaves. |
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| 19 | 954 |
How different might be life in another world, she thinks, or in her own world, were things different. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 17 | 446 |
Another approach might be to envision a world compatible with reality and congenial to human nature, a world in which science, even social science, might be free, a world in which truth would not be against the law, a world designed not for the crippling, distortion and torture of humanity but for i... |
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| 8 | 147 |
"A fair-skinned, red-haired barbarian beauty," called the auctioneer, "highly intelligent, exquisitely refined and of delicate sensibilities, a woman on her own world doubtless of class and station—but on this world, our world of Gor, only a meaningless piece of slave meat, a girl who will le... |
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| 1 | 995 |
This has to do with their beliefs as to the mysterious relationships which are thought to obtain between the world of reality and the medicine world, that, at times, these two worlds impinge on one another, and become one. |
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| 13 | 1176 |
"It is not strange that you should learn this on a world far from your own," I said, "for your world is like a distorting lens, perverting even the most conspicuous lineaments of biological reality, nor is it strange that you should learn it as a stripped slave. |
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| 14 | 706 |
It reminded me of a distant and sick world, the world of tittering, of embarrassment and dirty jokes. |
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| 16 | 251 |
If the world cannot speak to it, it does not speak of the world. |
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| 17 | 96 |
In this respect, then, there is something in common between the cities of the "white world" and the scattered tribal villages of the "red world". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 28 | 272 |
Their personal world, the world of their experience, their experiential world, may be quite different from yours. |
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| 2 | 83 |
Clearly this is a sudden and radical transition for the Earth girl! What an enormous adjustment she must make! She may not even have thought of slavery before, and now she finds herself branded, and on her knees before masters, on a world in which such relationships have been tested for hundreds of ... |
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| 4 | 188 |
He is probably one of the world's greatest visitors and, too, one of the world's greatest hosts, one of his great pleasures in life being the giving of gifts and the feasting of friends. |
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| 30 | 58 |
The real role of such belief systems, thus, is not to tell people about the world, for they are actually irrelevant to the world, but to supply them with psychological and social benefits. |
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| 44 | 236 |
Given the will of men, and their desires, there is little mysterious in these matters; in the light of the will of men, and their desires, do not many things become clear, for example, the auction block, the collar, the chain, the whip? Is it truly so hard to understand these things—in a natu... |
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| 44 | 240 |
To be sure, perhaps a world of guilt, anxiety, self-denial, misery, pain, confusion, scratching, clawing, scrambling, bickering, neurosis, and hatred is superior to a world of victory, confidence, health and fulfillment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 495 |
It suggested to me, for a moment, a reference to a world in which a woman might be without defenses, fully, a world in which she was simply not permitted defenses. |
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| 4 | 465 |
There was something else in me, I feared, something that I had only become clearly aware of on this barbaric world, this world in which I must be true to my femininity, and in which there were true men. |
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| 31 | 55 |
"In any event, Priest-Kings, who have such power," said he, "have required that we on this world, for the most part, share a common language, the nature of which they left to us, and it has been composed, at least lexically, of many languages, and is regularly standardized at the great fairs, and el... |
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| 31 | 117 |
The last thing they wanted was a natural world in which human beings might once again be themselves, a world which would liberate humanity to be what it was bred to be, and flourished as, in the long course of nature's callous, implacable, discriminative eons. |
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| 1 | 443 |
This, of course, is not strictly true, not in a world where most goods can be carried on the back of a man, not in a world where there are tarns. |
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| 1 | 517 |
"I love it! You cannot know how I love it! I come from a world where there are almost no true men, a world where manhood is almost educated and conditioned out of existence. |
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| 2 | 1598 |
But then, too, they could probably not understand a crowded, cruel, scratching, polluted world, a world without Home Stones. |
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| 5 | 449 |
Briefly the thought of another world crossed my mind, one frightened of true manhood, one at war with it, one concerned to inculcate political insanities, to redefine manhood, turning it into its opposite, a world intent on stunting, crippling, reducing, and destroying men, turning them into pliant,... |
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| 12 | 499 |
This would make travel and communication between them practical in a world where strangers are often regarded with suspicion, indeed, a world on which the same word is generally used for both "stranger" and "enemy". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 25 | 2268 |
"In a world where nature is free, a world not subjected to ideological poisonings, a world where she is not crippled, and hobbled," I said, "what is the place of women?" "At the feet of men, Master," she said. |
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| 26 | 1686 |
What man, in his deepest heart, in the very deepest part of him, does not wish to own a woman? What woman in her deepest heart, in the very deepest part of her, does not long for her master? I was pleased to have come to the world of Gor, a world where men may be whole, and honest, a world where the... |
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| 21 | 137 |
What consolation is it for others if they should eventually discover that they live in a world of facts, if disillusioned they should eventually recognize their errors, living to see the harvests of their own foolishness, living to see their civilization split asunder, to see their world fall bleedi... |
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| 25 | 2271 |
"Such does not prove, of course," I said, "that Gor is the ideal world, but it does indicate that Gor possesses at least one feature of the ideal world". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 113 |
"It tells of a world very different from that in which you live," he said, "a world very much simpler, and more basic, a world more fundamental, and less hypocritical, and far fresher and cleaner, in its way, and more alive and wild than yours". |
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| 3 | 754 |
"And this world of which you speak," I whispered, "supposing it exists, it is like, in some ways, the other world, the vanished world, of which we spoke?" "Yes," he said. |
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| 1 | 157 |
They were rather, I suspected, though I could not know, a simple heritage of my sex, but there was this to be said, had I lived in another place or time I might perhaps have found female fulfillments which, categorically, it seemed, were to be denied to me in my present world, the neuteristic, anony... |
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| 3 | 219 |
I recalled that the man in the aisle, he in the incident which had taken place some three months ago, that in connection with Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, had spoken of a world like one long past, a world in which, as he had said, women such as myself were bought and ... |
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| 4 | 104 |
I wondered what it might be like, to be a female on a world like this, or the sort of female I was, on a world like this, where, unlike Earth, men had not been weakened. |
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| 4 | 139 |
To be sure, I will doubtless capture other women from time to time, here on my world, women native to my world, and perhaps, from time to time, Earth girls who have been brought here earlier". |
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| 4 | 389 |
"This," I whispered, frightened, "is then truly a world such as that of which you spoke, a world on which women such as I are bought and sold as slaves?" "Position," he said. |
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| 6 | 25 |
On Earth Teibar had told me that there was a world such as this, though he had not told me its name, a world on which women such as I were "bought and sold". |
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| 8 | 289 |
I awaited the command to lift my head, to view my master, to greet him with joy, to prove to him that I was no longer a hated "modern woman," no longer a spoiled, pampered woman of a sick, antibiological world, that I was now only his, a female slave, vulnerable and exposed in the fullness of her wo... |
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| 9 | 315 |
But then I had been taken from Earth, and my power, to be brought here to be utterly powerless, to be a slave, to be a pleasure slave! How reductive, I thought, to be a pleasure slave! Then I knew that that was what, on a proper, natural world, I would be, that that, on such world, was right for me. |
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| 17 | 118 |
Yet in spite of such things I would not have traded the beautiful world of Gor for anything, even though on such a world I was only the lowliest and most meaningless of its animals. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 951 |
They have then escaped the sexual desert of Earth and have found themselves brought into the radiant, glorious reality of a world such as the Earth once was, a natural world where the males are men, and the females theirs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 255 |
Also she soon longs for the openness of bondage, that her inward truth may now be publicly proclaimed, that she may now appear before the world, and be shown before the world, as what she is, a slave. |
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| 19 | 1240 |
Perhaps she hates her embonded sister because she senses the slave lives in a world denied to her, a distant, honest, wonderful world, one of submission and obedience, one of intimacy and service, one at last of radical, unabashed sexuality, one of pleasure and joy, one of love and fulfillment, one ... |
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| 45 | 119 |
How shall they see one another, and how shall they be to one another? Is man an inexplicable particle, a magical mote, a surprising tune with no instrument, no history, no meaning, something independent of, and unrelated to, the world that gave him his substance, every atom in his flesh, his birth, ... |
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| 17 | 30 |
It might also be noted, interestingly, that the Gorean, in spite of his awe of Priest-Kings, and the reverence he accords them, the gods of his world, does not think of them as having formed the world, nor of the world being in some sense consequent upon their will. |
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| 27 | 49 |
"I know a world where such things, in a sense, are often done," I said, "a world in which, for political purposes, and to further the interests and ambitions of certain factions, there are wholesale attempts to suppress, thwart, stunt and deny manhood. |
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| 27 | 917 |
The women of your world are and should be slaves! Your world abounds with slaves, and yet your males do nothing about it! They let them run about as they wish! They let them be disagreeable and insulting!" "That changes on Gor," I said. |
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| 27 | 928 |
"The men of your world, it seems," said she, "are too weak to seize and claim the slaves of their world". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 11 | 337 |
On this world we found ourselves in a true world, a biologically natural world, a world in which nature was fulfilled, and celebrated, not outlawed, denied, and denounced. |
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| 11 | 1386 |
How astonishingly paradoxical seemed my situation! Here on this world, where men seemed so proud, so untamed, so unbroken, so free, so mighty, so hot-blooded, on this world seemingly so primitive, so splendid and barbaric, on this world of leather, and silk and iron, not of plastics and synthetic fi... |
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| 6 | 209 |
For, just as there doubtless were men, true men, on the old world, though on such a world they must guard the secrecy of their manhood, who would prize the normal female, she made for arms, and crying out, and yielding, so, too, there must be on this world men, and doubtless true men, who find the t... |
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| 7 | 188 |
I, a woman from another world, a world not his, I, a woman removed from, torn from, my own world and brought as a mere captive, or less, to his, kneeling naked at his feet, fearfully, in chains, had looked up at him. |
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| 8 | 627 |
But whereas it seemed natural to think of the women of my world, or some of them, clad as I was, it seemed somehow foolish, or improbable, to think of the men of my world in the garmenture of the men of this world. |
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| 9 | 265 |
I was a woman from faraway, from a quite different world, a world of banality, glitter and hypocrisy, a world fearful of authenticity and truth, one afraid to understand and feel. |
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| 10 | 503 |
In this way those of this world who come to my world, doubtless for various purposes, but amongst them, it seems, though perhaps only incidentally, to acquire women for this world, women who will become such as I, encounter little difficulty in making their assessments. |
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| 11 | 853 |
To be sure, I had emerged as something real, not mythical, something which found itself in a very real world, a world in which I learned I was a certain sort of thing, vulnerable, precious and beautiful, and not at all the same as certain other sorts of things which were quite as real as I, and the ... |
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| 5 | 91 |
There was a world on the other side of the wall, a world quite different from that to which they were accustomed. |
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| 6 | 99 |
If an item is reasonably skillful in the language it is not likely to be ignorant of the world, and, if it is ignorant of the world, it is less likely to be adept with the language". |
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| 7 | 458 |
An analogue may be noted, of course, between such torture and the treatment often inflicted upon the males of my old world by women of my old world, in pursuit of their own purposes. |
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| 7 | 460 |
Rather they lie between the women of my old world and the men, or males, of that world. |
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| 8 | 232 |
Indeed, the men of my world, in their self-concern, preoccupied with their own affairs, doubtless of great moment, seemed prepared to let their world die. |
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| 8 | 233 |
I did not think, on the other hand, that the men of this world would allow their world to be destroyed. |
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| 8 | 593 |
In my old world I had been told I was important, as one tells everyone in that world, but I had not been, of course. |
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| 8 | 637 |
The differences between the men of this world, so self-confident, so audacious, so lordly, so natural, so strong, so free, and those of my old world, so little like them, then, I assumed, must be, at least primarily, differences of acculturation. |
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| 8 | 817 |
But I did not expect, of course, to be competing with my friends, for which I was just as pleased, because I did not doubt but what they, suitably trained, and on this world, as I was, would be formidable competitors, highly intelligent, and tantalizingly and deliciously seductive, nor, indeed, did ... |
10 |
| 8 | 819 |
Here, on this world, it seemed likely I would have to compete, if with anyone, with women of this world. |
10 |
| 8 | 910 |
On such a world where would one escape to? On this world I later learned, as I had already conjectured, there is no escape for one such as I. |
10 |
| 9 | 267 |
Then one, or more, it seems, on that very world, my old world, had seen me, and had made a decision. |
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| 9 | 277 |
How, I wondered, did those who concerned themselves with such things, to whom they were doubtless a matter of business, assess such potentialities? Did they imagine me naked, or how I might look in silk, moving sensuously, or kneeling, in chains, such things? And how did they know about my secret he... |
10 |
| 10 | 337 |
I was not even of this world! How dare they treat me in this fashion? How dare they do this to me! I had been taken from my own world! I had been brought here! Then I recalled that I was now a kajira, and that anything might be done to me. |
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| 10 | 480 |
One theory for the revealing garb in which kajirae are commonly kept is that in a primitive, warlike, barbarous world, a world in which slavery is common, and beautiful women are regarded as a familiar form of booty, such garb tends to make them the desiderated objects of capture, seizure and theft,... |
10 |
| 10 | 686 |
This may have been something lingering from my old world, for, on this world, brunettes seem to be favored, it being claimed, truly or not, that they are much more easily aroused, and much more helpless, and passionate, in the furs. |
10 |
| 10 | 687 |
But, to be sure, blond hair, genuinely blond hair, is rare on this world, except for certain areas, as it is on my old world. |
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| 11 | 567 |
There are some names, of course, which are common to both this world and my old world, which suggests interesting questions of etiology. |
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| 11 | 1217 |
It would be as absurd and meaningless for us to be freed on this world as it would be for a dog or horse to be freed on my former world. |
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| 11 | 1365 |
"A world?" "Yes, a different world". |
10 |
| 11 | 1388 |
It was almost as though I had been somehow magically flung into the past, into a world quite different from my own, a world whose ways I must speedily learn and in which I must learn, if I would survive, to be obedient and pleasing. |
10 |
| 12 | 143 |
On this world what had been written on me on my world, to obscure the underlying truths, had been scraped off, the dross scraped away to reveal the suspected, now-revealed, infinitely more precious message beneath. |
10 |
| 12 | 337 |
Yes, I admit it, and on this world the admission costs me naught! I want to please men! Denounce me if you will but I am such! But, too, perhaps you know not men such as are on this world! In their presence I find myself docile, submissive, and obedient. |
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| 13 | 26 |
"Do the women of your world seek to placate thusly the men of their world?" he asked. |
10 |
| 13 | 107 |
And, indeed, the vast majority of female slaves on this world would surely be native to this world, and would, thus, presumably, have once had caste. |
10 |
| 13 | 646 |
It was not my fault if I came from a world without Home Stones, whatever they might be! "She is not from our world?" asked one of the women. |
10 |
| 14 | 1633 |
"What they are denied in the world of free women they arrogate to themselves in the world of slaves. |
10 |
| 16 | 282 |
How exciting, how glorious, how joyful, how real, how meaningful it must be to be a male on a world such as this, I thought, a world in which they had such power, at least over such as I. |
10 |
| 34 | 56 |
How was it that I should be here? I did not even know how I had come to this world! But I was here now, helpless, owned, where I must serve, and please and obey, a slave girl on an alien, exotic world. |
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| 41 | 15 |
One knew there was a world there, teeming, busy, with its sights, and sounds, and smells, a turbulent, active world, one different from that of the garden. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 833 |
How came I here, she asked herself, how thus? I am on a different world, she thought, a world foreign and strange to me, an exotic world, a beautiful, frightening world, an incredible, startling, vital world, a world so different, a world so alive, a world so very different from my own. |
10 |
| 17 | 848 |
I am on a different world, a world foreign and strange to me, an exotic world, a beautiful, frightening world, a world so different from my own, a world on which I am branded and collared, a world on which I am a slave. |
10 |
| 13 | 64 |
"I am only a slave, but I am here, and now this world is mine, too! It is mine, too! You are mine, too, dear world, and I love you, though on you I am but a slave! But on such a world what could a woman such as I be but a slave? On such a world a woman such as I could be only, and am worthy to be on... |
10 |
| 17 | 739 |
"I come from a different world," said Ellen, "a world of different values, a world on which it would be regarded as improper that I be owned, helplessly, categorically, a world on which all women must be free, must be treated with total honor and respect! I am that sort of woman! Obedience, helpless... |
10 |
| 11 | 318 |
An alternative to both a lying world in which it is claimed that all are free, when they are not, a world hastening to disaster, and a world in which all are slaves, would be a world in which masters are masters and slaves are slaves". |
10 |
| 28 | 319 |
Doubtless he knew her an Earth woman! He seemed amused then, to see her here, on this world, so far from her old world, on a world so different from her old world, she here reduced to a natural woman, reduced fittingly to a collared slave, anxiously hastening to serve masters. |
10 |
| 29 | 358 |
He spoke to me of a world in which brothers might kill brothers, or friends friends, were a particle of power or profit to be gained, a world in which nature is scarred, wounded and betrayed, a world in which human beings do not know one another, nor do they care to do so, a world in which fidelity ... |
10 |
| 19 | 635 |
This world is so natural! How fearful, she thought, to be a woman and live on a natural world! And yet, she thought, the thought startling her, I would not be elsewhere than on this world. |
10 |
| 29 | 360 |
"Our world," said Portus Canio, "is a green world, a fresh, clean, honest world. |
10 |
| 1 | 60 |
It is that which it would be determined to be, after a thorough and careful examination by a qualified physician, of any world, even the terribly thorough physicians of this world. |
10 |
| 1 | 94 |
On her first world she understood, or knew, little or nothing of this world. |
10 |
| 1 | 96 |
She has now wondered if various authorities on her old world did not know something of this world, at least a little something. |
10 |
| 1 | 122 |
But this reality was later made clear to her, by incontrovertible laws, and deeds, which did not so much confirm the hypothetical strictures of a perhaps hitherto rather speculative law, one extending to a distant world, as replace or supersede them, in an incontrovertible manner, with immediate, un... |
10 |
| 4 | 331 |
"On such a world," continued the young man, "being subjected to externally imposed limitations, those of the alien life forms, for example, various limitations on weaponry, transportation and communication, human cultures would exist, and develop, and express themselves rather differently, at least ... |
10 |
| 4 | 332 |
For example, on such a world, on this supposed other world, instead of adjudicating differences with, say, bombs and bullets, or thermonuclear weaponry, destroying life indiscriminately, irradiating soil, poisoning atmospheres, and such, points at issue might be adjudicated rather with the fire of t... |
10 |
| 4 | 346 |
Accordingly, in many respects, not being afflicted by these processes, the human beings of our supposed world, that on which I am inviting you to conjecture, might tend in many ways to be healthier and happier, and to find their lives more rewarding and meaningful, more worth living, than many of th... |
10 |
| 4 | 347 |
The supposed world is then, one supposes, given the evolutionary heritage of the human animal, likely, on the whole, at least, to be much more congenial to human nature, and its fulfillment, than the world with which you are most familiar". |
10 |
| 10 | 216 |
She saw him now as Gorean, a scion of this world, and herself as what only such as she could be on such a world, a slave. |
10 |
| 11 | 193 |
Is it so obvious, she had asked herself, that I am a slave, that I should be a slave? But on a world such as this what could a woman such as I be but a slave? Is that not the purpose for which women such as I are brought to this world, to be the helpless, rightless slaves of absolute and sovereign m... |
10 |
| 11 | 395 |
Surely it had its representatives, or outposts, or offices, on her former world as well as on this, her new world. |
10 |
| 12 | 343 |
To be sure, already on Gor, perhaps because of the air, or the water, or the simple, decent, nourishing food, or perhaps, primarily, because of the simple differences in this world, so fresh, natural and innocent, the immersion in a different culture, so very different from her own, with its differe... |
10 |
| 13 | 11 |
What a privilege and joy to be brought here! Do those who are native to this world understand how wonderful it is? I did not know such a world could exist! She reveled in the freshness of the air and the beauty of the sky, and city. |
10 |
| 13 | 38 |
What an honor, what a privilege, what an incredible gift, just to be able to see you, just to be permitted to be here! How unworthy are the women of Earth to know your glory and beauty! What could a woman such as I be on a world such as this but a slave? On such a world what else could we be? Oh, th... |
10 |
| 13 | 73 |
You are the world of which I have always dreamed! On you, beautiful world, let me fulfill the deepest and most wonderful, and most hidden, of my needs, those needs I was always forced to deny on Earth. |
10 |
| 16 | 873 |
On the whole, however, Goreans tend to be remarkably free of vulgarity, perhaps because their world is, on the whole, so much more innocent, natural and conducive to human happiness than at least one other world. |
10 |
| 17 | 187 |
"I think that it is likely that it is one of their own world's slave brands," said the boy, "that they were slaves on their own world, and then they were purchased and shipped here". |
10 |
| 17 | 850 |
It is what I am, and what I want to be! Oh, dear world, dearest world, give me a strong master, one who will master me uncompromisingly as I desire to be mastered, that I may fulfill myself, in my pleasing of him, in my serving of him, in my delighting of him. |
10 |
| 17 | 1065 |
How faraway now was Earth! How faraway now was her former life! She was now on another world, one quite different from her former world. |
10 |
| 17 | 1066 |
On this world she was as any man would want her, and as men on this world would have her, a slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 1198 |
And it is on that world, Gor, not Earth, this fearful, severe, biologically honest world, so far from Earth, that I find myself a slave! I cannot be a slave, she thought, wildly. |
10 |
| 19 | 642 |
Better a collar on Gor than a throne on Earth! How glorious to be a woman and live upon a natural world, a world in which I must occupy my rightful place in the order of nature, my place at the feet of masters! The beat of the tarn's wings above her was steady, and smooth. |
10 |
| 22 | 190 |
Perhaps it amuses them to have an illiterate barbarian slave, from a despised world, a world fit for little perhaps other than the harvesting of its women, to be bought as slave fruit to their markets. |
10 |
| 22 | 454 |
It was he who on this world had been her first master, he who on Earth had arranged and executed her straightforward, flawless abduction, he into whose keeping and under whose mastery she had first come, he amongst whose toils she had first found herself inextricably enmeshed, so absolutely, so simp... |
10 |
| 24 | 283 |
How could this have happened to her? She was a woman of Earth! She had been plucked from civilization, as it had been understood by her former peers, plucked from a busy, complex, crowded, polluted, industrial society, and set down in a very different world, in a fresh, green, natural, primitive wor... |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 25 | 171 |
Have you not yet learned the nature of this world, and what you are on this world? What a silly little vulo you are! What a stupid little pudding you are!" Later, rising to a half-reclining, half-sitting position, she brought her legs together, to one side, with smooth, swift, sinuous grace. |
10 |
| 25 | 792 |
It had suddenly seemed, last night, as though a world had been opened up before her, a wondrously exciting, sensuous, vital world. |
10 |
| 25 | 831 |
And, lo! Here, on this world, where there are true men, on this world of masters, I have found out, for the first time in my life, what it is to be a woman, a true woman. |
10 |
| 26 | 1135 |
He is Selius Arconious, my master! How strange she then thought that I, of Earth, should be here, on another world, a far, beautiful world, one many of Earth do not even know exists, kneeling on its grass, naked, back-braceleted, covered with a blanket, dismissed from attention, unable to see, waiti... |
10 |
| 27 | 662 |
"At one time, long ago," said Mirus, "on another world, for this is not my native world, as you have probably conjectured from my speech, I thought there might be something to such suppositions, suppositions pertaining to Priest-Kings, and even repeated conjectures pertaining to such matters". |
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| 27 | 2417 |
Had he been aware before, she wondered, of the latent passion in women, waiting to be called forth by the summons of masters? Had he even, until then, begun to comprehend the joy of living on a natural world, one too wise to take false steps, one unspoiled by millennia of madness, a world on which m... |
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| 27 | 2474 |
We find ourselves regarded, discussed, and commented on, at our rings, much as might be, on another world, in another time, dogs or horses, or on another world, in a later time, automobiles and motorcycles, except that human females, obviously, have a special interest for human males, even young hum... |
10 |
| 29 | 361 |
It has its terrors, but it is a beautiful world, and a natural world. |
10 |
| 30 | 624 |
Gor is now my world, a world on which I am a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1343 |
What has become of us? What have we done to the world? She felt herself touched then, you see, however softly, by the fingers of a world alien to her, a natural world of meadows and moisture, of damp rocks and blades of moist grass, a world rather like her own might once have been, unspoiled, a worl... |
10 |
| 1 | 689 |
It spoke not of ideas and theories, or verbalisms, or of the fencings and cant in which she had sought to perfect herself, of the skills which brought status in her world, but of a different world, one of which she knew but little, one in which she had little part, one in which she did not belong, o... |
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| 1 | 1360 |
Why does he not make me his slave? But I fear that I am not worthy to be his slave! But clearly he desires me! I think he would not mind having me at his feet! Then why might he not make me his slave? Where is Earth? Where is my old world! Where is the world where I understand myself? What is this p... |
10 |
| 12 | 6 |
The forest world, or game world, is essentially a sport world for Kurii, who are fond of the hunt. |
10 |
| 1 | 1078 |
She would expect, and would demand, that he behave toward her as what, in her world, and his former world, was known as a "perfect gentleman". |
10 |
| 1 | 1275 |
What might be the social relations in such a world, in such a small, stout, encircling, transparent world? And what might be the consequences to herself of these social relations? She became extremely frightened. |
10 |
| 4 | 189 |
"Then we are on a world!" "We are on a world," he said. |
10 |
| 6 | 102 |
"But you are here, on the Steel World, this Steel World," said Cabot. |
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| 12 | 5 |
The largest of these are the agricultural cylinders, of which there are two; the next largest is the forest world, or game world; the next is the industrial cylinder; and the pleasure cylinder is by far the smallest. |
10 |
| 12 | 7 |
The forest world associated with the Steel World under the governance of Agamemnon is something in the neighborhood of one hundred square pasangs. |
10 |
| 20 | 82 |
"If I am guilty of treason," he continued, "it is not treason against the species and the world, but against one who would betray the honor of the species and the world, a dissembler and deceiver, an opportunist and thief, a liar and seeker of power, a true traitor to worth, nobility, and valor". |
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| 25 | 27 |
"I will commend you, of course, to Peisistratus, high human of the world, favored of the Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, Theocrat of the World," said Cabot. |
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| 30 | 5 |
The cylinder world, you see, is much like a natural world. |
10 |
| 32 | 419 |
"The world's master," said Cabot, "in the view of many is treasonous to the world". |
10 |
| 36 | 115 |
Moreover, as a slave in a unapologetically and uncompromisingly male-dominated world, she is excruciatingly aware, as she might not be in a drabber, grayer, hypocritical world, of her femaleness, and its enormous importance. |
10 |
| 36 | 118 |
In such a culture it is not the unimportant empirical contingency, the biological irrelevancy, the meaningless anatomical fortuity, it is claimed to be in a world of anonymity and negativity, of neuterism, that of a world engineered to abet the mindless servicing of machines, technological and econo... |
10 |
| 43 | 456 |
If Agamemnon is successful, humans may yet be permitted to live, and serve, in the world, and I myself will speak on your behalf, to win you pardon for your crime against the world". |
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| 51 | 60 |
"It would be such a very different world, such a tragic, self-denying, unfulfilled world". |
10 |
| 69 | 112 |
"But then terror seized all," said another, "for locks were blown and swarming into the world, to the rolling of drums and the blast of war horns, from a hundred ports, were warriors from the world which Agamemnon had menaced, and whose fleet, so beautifully generaled, had decimated ours". |
10 |
| 69 | 130 |
"Twice," said a Kur, "the world was again in jeopardy, for minions of Agamemnon were surprised in the planting of mighty charges, which, if detonated, would have opened the world to the outside". |
10 |
| 79 | 318 |
This transcends the whip, but, to her joy, this reassuring her, she knows the whip is always there, in the background, ready should it be needed, there like the world, her world, for she is a slave. |
10 |
| 79 | 699 |
Long I fought my heart's pleas! And then, strangely, fragments and planets away from Earth, in a cylindrical world, a world made of steel, I found my lips pressed at last to the whip. |
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| 80 | 312 |
I think it would be interesting to live on the surface of a world, rather than within a world". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 91 |
She, I fear, had not yet accustomed herself to the beauties of a natural world, but still thought in terms of another world, a grayer world, a more tragic world, a world in which, incredibly, pollutants and poisons were routinely discharged into the atmosphere, into the very air its creatures, large... |
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| 1 | 292 |
That had been done later, weeks later, in the Pleasure Cylinder, a small adjunct or auxiliary world to the Steel World at that time ruled by Agamemnon, Theocrat of the World, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One. |
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| 1 | 293 |
Three other such related worlds were the Hunting World, used for Kur sport, the Industrial World, in which its manufacturing was accomplished, and the Agricultural World, in which a variety of crops were raised under controlled conditions, largely by automation. |
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| 14 | 72 |
Whatever world that was, I suspected, it had been a high-gravity world, one with a deep gravity well, for the strength of the tarn was considerable, far beyond what one would normally expect of an avian creature of a more typical world, such as Earth or Gor. |
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| 1 | 4 |
"You had seen only Earth," I said, recalling that distant, desecrated, half-ruined world from my past, "and the Steel World, once ruled by Agamemnon". |
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| 1 | 147 |
He doubtless had one or more bases, or ports, on Earth, and one or more on Gor, and I knew he had one on the Steel World from which we had been brought, that now under the governance of Arcesilaus, now theocrat of that world, and now, claimedly, Twelfth Face of the Nameless One. |
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| 4 | 8 |
Yet if they did not inhabit her would such a world not have been something of a waste, for who, then, would know how beautiful she was? The Gorean, incidentally, is not a soiling and a plague upon his world, nor is he so arrogant as to deem himself superior to it, its guardian or steward. |
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| 5 | 140 |
Had it not been for the governance of Priest-Kings, and their surveillance, and the enforcement of their prohibitions on technology and weaponry, I had little doubt that the suspicions, fears, and simian ingenuity of my species on Gor would have by now produced lethalities equivalent to, if not supe... |
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| 5 | 145 |
But the shield of Priest-Kings was concerned not only to protect their own world from the potential dangers of an eventually advanced and technologically armed humanity, mostly, originally, brought over millennia to Gor in Voyages of Acquisition for its biological interest, as were many other forms ... |
10 |
| 5 | 146 |
Too, interestingly, the sheltering wing of the Priest-Kings, her declared protectorate, extended beyond Gor to another world as well, to her sister world, Earth. |
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| 25 | 196 |
Another theory held that the world did, indeed, end at some horizon, for in a finite world there could be no infinite number of horizons, but maintained that at the final horizon, or final shore, as in a lake, Thassa would find her final limit. |
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| 25 | 201 |
Most mariners, however, believed that the world was spherical, surmising this from a plenitude of considerations, that one first discerns the masts of approaching ships, that Gor's shadow, round, is occasionally cast on a moon, that not all stars are visible at all latitudes, as would be the case if... |
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| 44 | 47 |
Later, on a far world, far beyond the Prison Moon, a Steel World, as there were slavers there, and her attractions warranted this, she had been simply taken in hand, and branded and collared, routinely so, they not even understanding at that time that she was already a slave, not that that would hav... |
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| 44 | 90 |
"I love it!" "This world," she said, "is a man's world". |
10 |
| 44 | 103 |
"That this world, Gor, is a man's world," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 1030 |
I doubted if, when on her own world, her old world, that no longer her world, as she was now of Gor, she had anticipated her present helplessness, and the absoluteness of her new condition, that of a Gorean kajira. |
10 |
| 3 | 32 |
Perhaps they knew as little of the world as the world knew of them. |
10 |
| 19 | 219 |
Might not such cataclysmic births herald a world or worlds similarly formed? Perhaps, I suspected, we were not far from the World's End, the Homeland of the Pani. |
10 |
| 33 | 136 |
Many of my world, of course, did not accept the existence of her Earth, as another world. |
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| 33 | 253 |
"Strange it is how a slave, transported, might find her master on a new, unsuspected world, one far different from her own, on which she must kneel and wear a collar, and a master might find his slave, placed at his feet, brought to him from a far-distant, scarce-realized world". |
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| 33 | 254 |
"You realize there is such a world, a different world," I said, "from which she was harvested". |
10 |
| 33 | 358 |
For those at the end of the world, we are the World's End. |
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| 34 | 233 |
It seemed to me a complex, but sorry world, one crowded and polluted, one of noise, fumes, and smoke, of pushing and shoving, one of haste with few places to go, or worth going, one without much love, and one, clearly, without Home Stones, if one can conceive of such a world. |
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| 34 | 234 |
Too, it seems those of her world, incredibly, do not much care for their own world. |
10 |
| 37 | 862 |
"Consider the studies to which she was drawn, studies of a world much different from her own, a simpler, more natural world". |
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| 37 | 864 |
"What would be the most, on such a world, for which she, an alien female, might hope, and what, on such a world, might be what she truly desired, wanted, and would hope for?" "As she is a desirable female, and might bring a decent price on a block, that seems clear," he said. |
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| 37 | 1136 |
Indeed, on her own world, I supposed she had been free, as free, at any rate, as such women could be, in such a world, where, I gathered, their values, views, attitudes, dress, behavior, and such were dictated, as nearly as I could tell, by lunatics who, in fear of themselves, lived in hiding, walle... |
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| 37 | 1347 |
Many things seemed obscure about such barbarians, or reasonably so, for example, the location of their first acquisition, apparently a far world, the means by which they were brought to Gor, where they were initially housed on our world, why they seemed to be distributed about, almost tracelessly, a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 104 |
As one from a different world, a grayer, more dismal, more crowded, more polluted world, a mass world of homogenized humanity, a world in which excellence is suspect, and must be concealed, a world of cunning and greed, of envy and duplicity, of hatred and fanaticism, a world alien to honor, a world... |
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| 2 | 4 |
Perhaps you will value it more if you could see it, if only for a moment, through the eyes of another, one astonished, one from a quite different world, a world which was much like a charnel house, or a smoke house, a world with little pride, but much vanity, a world of crowding, scrambling about, c... |
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| 12 | 67 |
Pets are not taught to speak, but I learned to do so; the mechanical translators, and Lord Grendel, and some others, were helpful; and, after the dislocations of an insurrection, and the downfall of Agamemnon, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, former Theocrat of the World, that world, learning of t... |
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| 8 | 168 |
How could such a world exist and not be known, or, I thought, is it known? Perhaps it is known, but as a guarded secret, official or governmental, to be kept from the general public? Is it the will of the Priest-Kings, the alleged lords of this world, I wondered, that the existence of their world be... |
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| 2 | 10 |
Conceive then, if you can, a world such as that from which I was obtained, a world without Home Stones, a world so meaningless, so forlorn, so petty, so empty. |
10 |
| 2 | 37 |
Know, good Masters and Mistresses, that others know of your world, sparkling in the darkness of the night, your morning world, so fresh, green, and sunlit, others who inhabit metal globes, who once owned such a world themselves, so beautiful, but destroyed it, and who now long for another. |
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| 4 | 115 |
Just as many of you doubt the existence of a world called Terra, or Earth, so, too, many on my world doubt the existence of your world. |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 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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| 8 | 780 |
She was a mere barbarian, a scion of a primitive culture, and I was a civilized woman of Earth, of the upper classes, young, beautiful, educated, intelligent, sensitive, well-bred, refined, now somehow inexplicably entrapped in a barbarian world, a world where I was denied the protection of the law,... |
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| 10 | 83 |
He had said that he was Grendel, high Kur, once from the world of Agamemnon, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, self-exiled from his world, that he might accompany and guard a woman, the Lady Bina, once, too, of that world. |
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| 10 | 761 |
I later learned that the beast had indeed learned how to treat slaves, and that he had learned this on another world, a steel world, the former world of Agamemnon, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One. |
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| 12 | 88 |
"To a new world, a strange world, an unfamiliar, perhaps hostile world?" I said. |
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| 37 | 188 |
Without these illusions, these precious, invaluable, wonderful illusions, how could one exist? You open your eyes and see a world, but how could this be? The world somehow stimulates you in such a way that you produce a representation of the world. |
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| 42 | 30 |
I was helplessly and futilely angry with Grendel, whose faithlessness, and treachery, cruelty, and ambition, so shocking and dismaying me, had betrayed his friends, his principles, his honor, his allies, his brethren of a far world, Grendel who had used his cleverness to win greater prospects from t... |
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| 2 | 19 |
I think that I, even on my old world, longed for something like this, a world in which nature was recognized, and respected. |
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| 2 | 33 |
If you have attained, on the other hand, to the Second Knowledge, you understand it is alleged to be a different world, one of several orbiting Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-Home-Stone, but, even so, many of you, even with the Second Knowledge, remain skeptical, regarding it as no more than a myth or f... |
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| 3 | 26 |
I was brought here as most from my world, as animals for your markets, selected for qualities and attributes of interest to strong men, qualities and attributes for which strong men, historically, even on my old world, will bid and pay, those qualities and attributes so despised in us, and yet covet... |
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| 4 | 117 |
In any event, though the evidence for your world doubtless exists, in many ways, on my world, what evidence is recognized is, as far as I know, subjected to alternative explanations, ignored, or explained away, in one way or another. |
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| 4 | 121 |
In any event, various manuscripts pertaining to your world have appeared, in a variety of languages, on my former world, despite efforts to suppress them, to deny them to the reading public. |
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| 4 | 146 |
What might I learn, what might I find? I did know that I was a scion of a series of species bred for thousands of generations for a world quite different from the one in which I found myself, a world less populated, greener, more open, more perilous perhaps, and certainly more beautiful. |
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| 4 | 220 |
I suddenly suspected that she, too, was a reader of this unusual literature, in which one encountered a different world, a natural world, one so far removed from the negativities and artificialities of our own. |
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| 5 | 86 |
Your world is a natural world, on which exist dominance and submission, and I have learned that I am not dominant. |
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| 5 | 87 |
To be sure, I knew this even on my world, a world in which such things are clearly recognized, in all their obviousness, but denied. |
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| 8 | 803 |
Anything could be done with me! How was it that I, a woman of Earth, was here, in a cell, on another world, with a marked thigh, caged with slaves? And how could it be that I, of Earth, was here, on this other world, also a slave, as much as they? "I do not want to be sold!" I said. |
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| 8 | 1094 |
Indeed, some women of my own world have, of their own free will, with their own consent, though you may find this hard to believe, pierced ears, which, on your world, is commonly taken as a sign of the most worthless and degraded of slaves. |
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| 8 | 1097 |
If there is anything in it, and if it should be true, even obviously so, to an informed view, it may be only that the women of my world, in baring their faces, and such, in presenting themselves as attractive objects, thus encouraging men to their acquisition, are more open about their nature than y... |
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| 8 | 1889 |
"When you thought yourself free, on your former world, prior to your rightful collaring," said Astrinax, "for you are obviously a slave, you had some sort of relationship with the men of your world, did you not?" "I was brought to Gor as white-silk," I said. |
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| 8 | 1944 |
I trusted I would not be punished on this world for faults which might have been mine on a former world. |
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| 10 | 147 |
Too, had he not spoken of another world? I suspected then that not only the beast but the strikingly beautiful Lady Bina herself might derive from such a world. |
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| 10 | 227 |
Might it be, somehow, familiar with the scarlet codes? The beast had informed me that it was self-exiled, and had accompanied the Lady Bina to this world, from their former world, as a guard. |
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| 10 | 263 |
It is probably difficult for one of my former world to understand the awesome dignity and importance, the social and cultural status, of the Gorean free woman, for she possesses a Home Stone, a status incomparably far above that of the usual free woman of my former world. |
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| 12 | 66 |
I myself had the privilege of being the pet of Lord Arcesilaus, who now, as I understand it, is the Twelfth Face of the Nameless One, Theocrat of the World, that world. |
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| 16 | 148 |
What had been done, I wondered, to the men of my former world? How superior to me, in so many ways, were these brutes of Gor! How slave I felt before them! Were such as I not fittingly owned by such as they, as the females of so many species of my former world were, in effect, owned by their males? ... |
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| 17 | 203 |
Apparently this warrior not only declined to accept this commission, but became involved somehow in the politics of the steel world itself, participating in a revolt which brought about, in the steel world in question, a change in governance. |
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| 29 | 191 |
"I am well-known and influential on one of the steel worlds, the steel world of Arcesilaus, Theocrat of the World, Twelfth Face of the Nameless One. |
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| 43 | 53 |
Who but Grendel might plausibly, and with a better prospect of success, conduct Agamemnon's embassy to a certain far world?" "A certain far world?" he said. |
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| 49 | 51 |
It may be recalled, as well, that Agamemnon had desired Grendel, a former hero of the very revolution on the steel world which had dethroned Agamemnon, to return to the steel world and use his station and prestige to influence its support of his schemes on Gor. |
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| 49 | 52 |
As I understand it, this was not as impractical as it might seem as, first, Grendel's word would be taken seriously, and might be persuasive; second, the current establishment on the steel world would be in no way threatened; and, third, and perhaps most importantly, those of the steel worlds had lo... |
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| 49 | 84 |
But perhaps, too, they managed, somehow, to return to a steel world, not their original world, on which they would be unwelcome, but another. |
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| 49 | 172 |
The free woman on Gor has a status and power which would astonish most of the putatively free women of my former world, but then the Gorean commonly thinks of the women of my former world not as free women, at least as he understands that, but rather as slave stock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 17 | 12 |
It was he who had brought me to this, to this strange, different, natural, beautiful, fresh world, much as Earth might once have been, a world of blue skies and white clouds, of wind and rain, of storms and sunlight, of green fields and dark forests, of bracing, uncontaminated air and clean, clear, ... |
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| 50 | 15 |
Then, after my recapture, in the arms of my captor, for whose touch I had longed even as long ago as my former world, when I had seen him but once before my acquisition, these fires had begun, perhaps to his amusement, to blaze in such a way that I found myself their prisoner and victim Doubtless th... |
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| 4 | 115 |
To me that seems strange, given the heartless, barbaric complexities of her world with its scramblings for wealth and power, the competitions to control the weaponry of states, that one may apply such ugly resources, under the pretense of legality, to the ends of one's own aggrandizement, a world of... |
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| 11 | 95 |
Here, on this world, I discovered what I had long suspected on my former world, the meaning of my smaller, softer, so different body, its slightness and curves; here I found the explanation of a thousand dispositions, needs, and hopes I had been commanded to ignore or deny on my former world. |
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| 15 | 89 |
I wondered on what world such a thing might have emerged from the dark, grisly, unforgiving, demanding games of nature, certainly not on my former world, nor, I suspected, this world. |
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| 15 | 90 |
Perhaps it had arisen on some larger world, perhaps a much larger world, a world on which evolution might select for such massive size and power. |
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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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| 6 | 14 |
Perhaps they want a world such as they have made theirs, one crowded and smoky, odorous, and filthy Perhaps they desire such a world, and deserve it. |
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| 6 | 111 |
Some said they came from the World's End, but, as is known, the world ends at the farther islands, and beyond them is nothing. |
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| 13 | 63 |
Surely I remembered one man, one man encountered on my former world, though a man not of that world, one encountered in the aisle of a large emporium, before whom, startled, I could barely stand, and before whom I had felt I should kneel, head down, submitting myself to his survey and power, his aut... |
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| 14 | 374 |
"How else would there be a world, a universe?" "Perhaps," he said, "Priest- Kings are the children of the world, of the universe". |
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| 14 | 452 |
"Or parts of a world, a division of a world," he said. |
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| 15 | 730 |
Was it not he who brought me choiceless to this world, on which I was marked, collared, and sold! Was it not he who had brought me even to this chain, to this degradation, to this rude, primitive place, on a far world? What fate is this, I asked myself. |
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| 20 | 56 |
"I am educated on my world," I said, "not yours!" "This is now your world," said a slave. |
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| 20 | 204 |
"I have heard a mariner whisper in terror," said a slave, "for he fears Tersites, the shipwright, is mad, and would do war against Thassa, would contemplate a journey to where the world is no more, where the seas, like a waterfall a thousand pasangs in width, plunge over the cliff of the world, to f... |
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| 21 | 208 |
Many Goreans, I suppose, might seem callous, heartless, or cruel to many of Earth, but they commonly, as those of Earth often do not, love their world, love growing things, trees, grass, flowers, and the world itself, the day and night, the seasons, the wind and sky, the stars, the sound of water in... |
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| 23 | 64 |
How fresh and clean was the world, this world, how rich and sensuous it was. |
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| 40 | 25 |
Accordingly, slaves and other materials from the gray world, the Polluted World, must be smuggled to Gor. |
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| 50 | 158 |
I supposed few males of my former world, that tepid, gray world, could even understand such a thing. |
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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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| 52 | 784 |
"It is a great honor," I said, "for a woman of my world, such a world, to be adjudged worthy of a Gorean collar". |
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| 52 | 787 |
"Do you think you, a woman of your world, any woman of your world, is worthy to be the slave of a Gorean male?" "No, Master," I said. |
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| 53 | 62 |
"The danger to the world, or worlds," he said, "is that it might reach the World's End". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 263 |
I think that these two inhabited a world alien to that of better than a hundred observers, a world shut away from other worlds, a world in which each stood at an opposite end, a narrow world, the two poles of which were linked by a wirelike, invisible path no broader than the breadth of an arrow. |
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| 44 | 319 |
On a distant world, a far world beyond the moons, a steel world, inhabited by fierce denizens, I saw such things, animated by an ensconced brain, its body the device itself". |
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| 45 | 56 |
Gor is a natural world, a fresh, green, unspoiled world, one much as once was Earth, a jewel world, a green, living diamond in space. |
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| 1 | 478 |
Cecily, the former Virginia Cecily Jean Pym, an aristocratic English brunette, had been mine since her acquisition on a pleasure cylinder associated with a steel world, formerly that of a Kur called "Agamemnon," for the phonetic convenience of humans, claimedly the "Eleventh Face of the Nameless One... |
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| 11 | 252 |
The world from which we derive may in many ways be thoughtless, foolish, shallow, decadent, materialistic, and cruel, but it is, at least, a world in which there are no iron dragons". |
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| 25 | 77 |
I had heard of this, on more than one world, and in more than one region of more than one world. |
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| 45 | 24 |
"But it would have lost its mantle of mystery, its most fearsome feature, the aura of the unnatural and incomprehensible; it would no longer be something unfamiliar and inexplicable which transcends reason and the world as we know it; it would no longer be something astonishing and unwelcome, emerge... |
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| 45 | 95 |
"With so much at stake," I said, "in effect, a planet, for Kurii would not long be likely to peaceably share a world with Priest-Kings or any others, and surely Priest-Kings would realize the danger of admitting a technologically advanced, aggressive species like the Kurii to their world, it seems p... |
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| 50 | 126 |
I was reminded of the denlike apartments I had encountered on a far world, a steel world, save that there was here, in the recesses, a shallow cistern and, on a wall to the left, as one would enter, a number of slabs of meat, fastened on hooks. |
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| 61 | 951 |
How far were those two now from the august halls of finance on a far world! She had been far above him, he on that world a worshipful clerk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 89 |
I then told them of the supposed gratitude of a supposed Lord Arcesilaus, seemingly a Kur, spoken of as the Twelfth Face of the Nameless One, entitled "Theocrat of the World," or, at least, I supposed, of one world, a particular steel world, a gratitude that was to find expression in a gift, a gift ... |
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| 6 | 74 |
"You are now familiar only with one, a polluted, dismal world spoiled by selfishness, thoughtlessness, and greed, a barbarian world defiling nature and poisoning seas, a world in which men and women must be fitted to the machine, rather than the machine to men and women. |
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| 34 | 107 |
Some remnants of this destroyed world, one might suppose, survived, in enclosed metal rafts, so to speak, in artificial satellites, perhaps mixed with the debris of their former world, or perhaps, rather, fled far from their original star, seeking a new world to replace the one ruined, one does not ... |
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| 34 | 108 |
But suppose then the remnants of the destroyed world discovered new worlds, one lovely, as lovely as was their former world, and another, one seemingly engaged in the same dismal, menacing process of climbing to the same harrowing, technological summit, polluted with the same territorialities and ha... |
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| 8 | 216 |
Occasionally a male is taken from your former world, a typical male of your former world, suitably conditioned, and thus reduced and tamed, to be sold as a silk slave to a Gorean mistress. |
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| 8 | 294 |
I was the most vulnerable of all women, the female slave, in a world in which men had never relinquished their sovereignty, their nature as men, their possessiveness, their aggression, their claimancy, and lust, a world in which they might do as they wished with one such as I. |
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| 8 | 376 |
Might not an axis be tilted, following fearful explosions, might not a core be split, might not such a world, sundered, be driven from its star, might not an atmosphere be poisoned? I supposed a world might die quickly, or slowly, perhaps by inches, almost unnoticed. |
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| 11 | 104 |
It was not unusual on this world, incidentally, for many activities to be accompanied by music which, on my former world, would not be likely to be so accompanied. |
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| 11 | 165 |
Was it not, in its way, a barbarian world, stupid, inconsistent, crowded, polluted, thoughtless, greedy, hate-filled, afflicted with envies, resentments, and jealousies, dismal, pathological? Perhaps it was I, indeed, who, from such a world, was suitably viewed as the barbarian. |
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| 23 | 42 |
How far I was, from the receptionist's desk, from the office, from the firm, from the building, from my former world! "According to records," he said, "to which I was made privy, albeit somewhat reluctantly, you were, on the slave world, named Phyllis Rodgers". |
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| 34 | 106 |
Let us suppose there was once a lovely world on which the factions of a fierce form of life, technologically gifted, and ruthless, unchecked, disrupted, poisoned, and sterilized a world, perhaps shattering it, perhaps inadvertently, ignorantly, forcing it from its very orbit, into its star, to be co... |
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| 34 | 202 |
Upon the throne, surveying his metal domain, crouched a new ruler, Lord Arcesilaus, High Kur, the Twelfth Face of the Nameless One, Theocrat of the World, that world". |
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| 45 | 182 |
Whereas the plants from which the seeds, or beans, for black wine are brewed may have been native to Gor, I rather suspected that their world of origin might have lain far away, perhaps on another world. |
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| 45 | 191 |
If there were free women present, the decision as to the feeding of the slaves would have been left to them, in deference to their status, which is far higher than that of free women on my former world, Earth, sometimes referred to by Goreans privy to the second knowledge as the Slave World. |
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| 46 | 64 |
"I retain cohorts on my world, seized by the usurper, Arcesilaus, he who in blasphemy dares to term himself a Face of the Nameless One, he boldly aspiring to the title 'Theocrat of the World'". |
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| 46 | 405 |
On this world, he is, in a sense, an exile and outcaste, one far removed from the world that had been his own. |
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| 46 | 409 |
"He has minions on this world, Kur and human, and, on his former world, Kurii secretly loyal to him. |
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| 51 | 200 |
You are recently from a steel world, and you know little or nothing of this world, its customs, habits, and politics. |
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| 54 | 85 |
On this world I was what I should be, and should have been, as well, on my former world, had it been naturally and rightfully ordered, property. |
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| 57 | 174 |
How far I was, I again thought, from the office on my former world! Few young women, I supposed, expected to be carried to another world, and made a slave. |
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| 59 | 52 |
I have little doubt that it stood at the top of the food chain on its former world, a world about which we know little, other than that it was destroyed or rendered unviable. |
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| 66 | 20 |
"Who would have thought," I said, "that we, once two women of Earth, our former world, would one day have found ourselves naked and collared, on a far world, shackled, owned by men?" "I am pleased to be a commodity, a property, an owned beast," said Paula. |
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| 69 | 115 |
"I knew you would," he said, "even on your old world, when I first saw you, clothed, in the quaint fashion of your former world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 105 |
Could it be that under all the pretenses and lies, under all the conventions and cloaks, there might lurk the hereditary coils of a form of being which, in an honest world, need not be denied and suppressed, but might thrive and flourish, might lift its head, look about, and find itself once more in... |
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| 10 | 122 |
But might not others clap their hands in gladness, spring to their feet, and cry out with joy? Might this not be a world long ago lost, now refound, a world surrendered on one world but never surrendered on another? And what if one of these males from my old world, one who knew me there, should enco... |
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| 3 | 103 |
Would not their sick society collapse and their miserable world perish if even a hint of manhood were suspected? And so we have an unnatural, artificial world, a shallow, petty world in which men are to be punished for being men and women are mocked and scorned for being women. |
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| 3 | 403 |
"Shall we not see that she, this petty, greedy, exploitative, spoiled woman of the slave world, the gray, polluted world, is punished, for what she was on the polluted world?" asked the auctioneer. |
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| 39 | 32 |
How different was this world from my former world! How often I had, on my former world, subtly hinting the prospect of favors I had no intention of bestowing, been escorted to expensive clubs for dining and dancing, following which, returned to my apartment, I would, given my escort's hopes or expec... |
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| 1 | 14 |
Accordingly, this world, and my former world, share a common star. |
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| 1 | 16 |
My former world is commonly referred to by Gorean men, those apprised of the Second Knowledge, as "the slave world," presumably because women such as I are frequently brought here for their markets. |
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| 1 | 57 |
Who but barbarians would taint their food, poison their atmosphere, foul their rivers, lakes, and seas, and crowd, despoil, and disfigure a lovely, innocent world, their own? Have they no understanding, no love? Have they no guilt, no shame? Have they no Home Stone? What is such a world good for, sa... |
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| 1 | 72 |
It is interesting, that even a beautiful girl from my former world, one whose beauty might have led to wealth and position, may, on this world, be owned by a poor man. |
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| 3 | 18 |
"Here, noble masters, at my feet," said the auctioneer, standing to my left, his whip in his right hand, "we have, as noted, a medium-heighted barbarian, imported recently from the slave world, for there is such a world, as many of you know, picked like fruit for your delectation. |
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| 3 | 61 |
"As you were informed, noble masters," said the auctioneer, "this item is a barbarian, extracted from the polluted world, a world where few slaves are in their collars". |
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| 3 | 68 |
"That world from which she has been removed," said the auctioneer, "is a world without a Home Stone". |
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| 3 | 95 |
"On her world she was worthless," said the auctioneer, "but here, on this world, for the first time in her life, she will be worth something, if only a handful of tarsk-bits". |
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| 3 | 117 |
For millions of women on the sorry world from which this stripped slave was extracted, their world is a sexual wasteland, a sexual desert. |
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| 6 | 58 |
"I have heard that there is a far world, an entire world, without Home Stones". |
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| 11 | 363 |
I was sure of it! And I had seen him not here, not on this world, I was sure, but on my former world, had seen him occasionally, at one party, or restaurant, or another. |
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