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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor (Individual Quote)

And I had traversed such a journey in my own heart. - (Kajira of Gor, Chapter 36, Sentence #865)
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36 865 And I had traversed such a View more quotes about journey">journey in my own heart.

Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor (Context Quote)

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36 862 For thousands of years the needs, the appetitiveness, the dangerousness, the tempting seductiveness of the female have been recognized, in myths, in stories, in teachings, in folk lore, in histories, in practices.
36 863 It was only substantially, in a given tradition, in a given world, in little more than a recent period, that she has been taught to deny herself, and suspect her most natural urges and impulses, as natural to her as her breathing and the beating of her heart, and to claim to prize life-denying, pathological virtues, imposed upon her from without.
36 864 But, too, there is little doubt that once these social conventions, cultural encrustations, and imprisonments, are shattered, are at last vanquished and torn away, she is then ready to feel, and be.
36 865 And I had traversed such a journey in my own heart.
36 866 But, too, lamentably or not, whether I willed it or not, men, masters, had taken me in hand and made me the victim of my own needs, and in this had made me their own.
36 867 As an analogy, let us suppose that somehow, by magic if you wish, or some sort of hibernation, or through some sort of suspended animation, that one had never had food or drink, and then suppose that suddenly, somehow, someone had changed all that, that someone had done something to you, and that suddenly you needed food and drink, and could not live without them.
36 868 To be sure, this is only an analogy but it conveys something of what I intend.
For thousands of years the needs, the appetitiveness, the dangerousness, the tempting seductiveness of the female have been recognized, in myths, in stories, in teachings, in folk lore, in histories, in practices. It was only substantially, in a given tradition, in a given world, in little more than a recent period, that she has been taught to deny herself, and suspect her most natural urges and impulses, as natural to her as her breathing and the beating of her heart, and to claim to prize life-denying, pathological virtues, imposed upon her from without. But, too, there is little doubt that once these social conventions, cultural encrustations, and imprisonments, are shattered, are at last vanquished and torn away, she is then ready to feel, and be. And I had traversed such a journey in my own heart. But, too, lamentably or not, whether I willed it or not, men, masters, had taken me in hand and made me the victim of my own needs, and in this had made me their own. As an analogy, let us suppose that somehow, by magic if you wish, or some sort of hibernation, or through some sort of suspended animation, that one had never had food or drink, and then suppose that suddenly, somehow, someone had changed all that, that someone had done something to you, and that suddenly you needed food and drink, and could not live without them. To be sure, this is only an analogy but it conveys something of what I intend. - (Kajira of Gor)