Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 22 | 628 | Songs and melodies tend to be View more quotes about handed">handed down within the caste, from one generation to another. |
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 625 | One hires a warrior for one thing, one hires a scribe for another. |
| 22 | 626 | One does not expect a scribe to know the sword. |
| 22 | 627 | Why, then, should one expect the warrior to know the pen? An excellent example of this sort of thing is the caste of musicians which has, as a whole, resisted many attempts to develop and standardize a musical notation. |
| 22 | 628 | Songs and melodies tend to be handed down within the caste, from one generation to another. |
| 22 | 629 | If something is worth playing, it is worth remembering, they say. |
| 22 | 630 | On the other hand, I suspect that they fear too broad a dissemination of the caste knowledge. |
| 22 | 631 | Physicians, interestingly, perhaps for a similar reason, tend to keep records in archaic Gorean, which is incomprehensible to most Goreans. |
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One hires a warrior for one thing, one hires a scribe for another.
One does not expect a scribe to know the sword.
Why, then, should one expect the warrior to know the pen? An excellent example of this sort of thing is the caste of musicians which has, as a whole, resisted many attempts to develop and standardize a musical notation.
Songs and melodies tend to be handed down within the caste, from one generation to another.
If something is worth playing, it is worth remembering, they say.
On the other hand, I suspect that they fear too broad a dissemination of the caste knowledge.
Physicians, interestingly, perhaps for a similar reason, tend to keep records in archaic Gorean, which is incomprehensible to most Goreans.
- (Magicians of Gor)