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Should we admonish the tarn for spreading his wings in a stormy sky? Should we recommend to the larl that it feed on grass? It does not care to do so, and who will gainsay its will? Do we disapprove of seasons, of the heat of the sun, of the cool of the night? We may do as we wish, but things will be as they are. - (Vagabonds of Gor, Chapter 45, Sentence #116)

The ways of nature are involved here. There are the equations of winds and tides, the silent turning of worlds on their axes, the movements of clouds, the descent of rain, the turbulent dynamics of gases, the freezing points of liquids, the melting temperatures of copper and iron, the migrations of birds, the habits of sleen. Perhaps we should castigate gravity and denounce currents. Should we admonish the tarn for spreading his wings in a stormy sky? Should we recommend to the larl that it feed on grass? It does not care to do so, and who will gainsay its will? Do we disapprove of seasons, of the heat of the sun, of the cool of the night? We may do as we wish, but things will be as they are. The ways of nature are involved here. And man, too, is part of this nature, and woman, as well. 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, that through eons of time fashioned him, like a knife or hammer, as a larl or sleen, in an image of significance and power? Surely all this may be swept aside with a motion of the wand of envy and greed; surely resentment, and fear, must undo a world and legislate in favor of the disinherited and ill-constituted, the craven, the weak, the psychologically misshapen. - (Vagabonds of Gor)