Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 553 | Other forms of the nonassent View more quotes about gesture">gesture can be turning the head away from the other, sometimes with a gesture of the lips, indicating distaste, or even of ejecting an unwanted substance from the mouth, backing away, or lifting the head and extending the neck, sometimes baring the fangs and tensing the body, as in a variation on the bristling response. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 550 | Lowering the head is an almost universal assent gesture, indicating submission to, or agreement with, the other. |
| 1 | 551 | The dissent gesture, on the other hand, shows much greater variety. |
| 1 | 552 | Shaking the head sideways, among rational creatures, may be taken as a negation of assent. |
| 1 | 553 | Other forms of the nonassent gesture can be turning the head away from the other, sometimes with a gesture of the lips, indicating distaste, or even of ejecting an unwanted substance from the mouth, backing away, or lifting the head and extending the neck, sometimes baring the fangs and tensing the body, as in a variation on the bristling response. |
| 1 | 554 | "To be sure," I said, "it is extremely difficult for them to speak Gorean, or another human language". |
| 1 | 555 | It was difficult for them, of course, given the nature of their oral cavity, throat, tongue, lips and teeth, to produce human phonemes. |
| 1 | 556 | They can, however, sometimes in a horrifying way, approximate them. |
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Lowering the head is an almost universal assent gesture, indicating submission to, or agreement with, the other.
The dissent gesture, on the other hand, shows much greater variety.
Shaking the head sideways, among rational creatures, may be taken as a negation of assent.
Other forms of the nonassent gesture can be turning the head away from the other, sometimes with a gesture of the lips, indicating distaste, or even of ejecting an unwanted substance from the mouth, backing away, or lifting the head and extending the neck, sometimes baring the fangs and tensing the body, as in a variation on the bristling response.
"To be sure," I said, "it is extremely difficult for them to speak Gorean, or another human language".
It was difficult for them, of course, given the nature of their oral cavity, throat, tongue, lips and teeth, to produce human phonemes.
They can, however, sometimes in a horrifying way, approximate them.
- (Savages of Gor)