Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | 194 | View more quotes about another">Another is sport. |
 |
Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | 191 | Too, out of them grew some of the criteria for the standardization of the female slave as a commodity, for example, how, in virtue of her scarcity, her training, and such, she is to be figured as an item of tribute, for example, in terms of other domestic animals, given their current market values in the area, and so on, such as verr and tarsks. |
| 26 | 192 | For example, she might, at a given time, be worth five verr or three tarsks, but she might be worth only a fifth of a sleen or a tenth of a tarn. |
| 26 | 193 | Obtaining women is one of the major reasons Goreans fight. |
| 26 | 194 | Another is sport. |
| 26 | 195 | The Slave Wars, incidentally, might be compared with the Kaiila Wars of the southern hemisphere. |
| 26 | 196 | In the latter wars, fought amongst factions of the Wagon Peoples, the object, or principal object, was apparently the acquisition of the lofty, silken kaiila, the common mount of the Wagon Peoples. |
| 26 | 197 | In those wars, as I understand it, the acquisition of female slaves was almost an afterthought, ropes being put on the necks of captured women, who were then, stripped, herded back with the captured kaiila to the wagons of the victors. |
|
Too, out of them grew some of the criteria for the standardization of the female slave as a commodity, for example, how, in virtue of her scarcity, her training, and such, she is to be figured as an item of tribute, for example, in terms of other domestic animals, given their current market values in the area, and so on, such as verr and tarsks.
For example, she might, at a given time, be worth five verr or three tarsks, but she might be worth only a fifth of a sleen or a tenth of a tarn.
Obtaining women is one of the major reasons Goreans fight.
Another is sport.
The Slave Wars, incidentally, might be compared with the Kaiila Wars of the southern hemisphere.
In the latter wars, fought amongst factions of the Wagon Peoples, the object, or principal object, was apparently the acquisition of the lofty, silken kaiila, the common mount of the Wagon Peoples.
In those wars, as I understand it, the acquisition of female slaves was almost an afterthought, ropes being put on the necks of captured women, who were then, stripped, herded back with the captured kaiila to the wagons of the victors.
- (Vagabonds of Gor)