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Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor (Individual Quote)

They will understand little more than that the technology involved is well beyond that with which they are familiar, well beyond that of their native planet. - (Explorers of Gor, Chapter 27, Sentence #191)
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27 191 They will View more quotes about understand">understand little more than that the technology involved is well beyond that with which they are familiar, well beyond that of their native planet.

Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)

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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, on a busy, common, crowded, indifferent, uncaring, polluted world, one on which they are at liberty to behave rather as they will, though to be sure within rather narrowly prescribed guidelines and channels set by their frowning, meddling, intrusive, observant society, free to exercise small vanities and pursue acceptable interests, to apply cosmetics, to shop, to dress, to work, and then the next day, it seems, though doubtless days later, they awaken to find themselves on a different world, on a chain.
27 189 The more intelligent of them, of course, will realize almost instantly that their transition has been effectuated by a sophisticated technology, but, even so, it is one which they have not witnessed, and one of which they have no inkling.
27 190 Even to the most brilliant of them their transition will seem as mysterious and inexplicable, as magical and fearful, as it might to a paleolithic savage, or a dog or cat.
27 191 They will understand little more than that the technology involved is well beyond that with which they are familiar, well beyond that of their native planet.
27 192 They have been brought here by men, or creatures, or beings of some kind, who can do with them as they please.
27 193 That is clear.
27 194 But, why? For what purpose have they been brought here? They are chained.
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, on a busy, common, crowded, indifferent, uncaring, polluted world, one on which they are at liberty to behave rather as they will, though to be sure within rather narrowly prescribed guidelines and channels set by their frowning, meddling, intrusive, observant society, free to exercise small vanities and pursue acceptable interests, to apply cosmetics, to shop, to dress, to work, and then the next day, it seems, though doubtless days later, they awaken to find themselves on a different world, on a chain. The more intelligent of them, of course, will realize almost instantly that their transition has been effectuated by a sophisticated technology, but, even so, it is one which they have not witnessed, and one of which they have no inkling. Even to the most brilliant of them their transition will seem as mysterious and inexplicable, as magical and fearful, as it might to a paleolithic savage, or a dog or cat. They will understand little more than that the technology involved is well beyond that with which they are familiar, well beyond that of their native planet. They have been brought here by men, or creatures, or beings of some kind, who can do with them as they please. That is clear. But, why? For what purpose have they been brought here? They are chained. - (Explorers of Gor)