Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 19 | It View more quotes about might">might seem a simple thing, how to tell a story, but it is not so easy for me. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 16 | How shall one speak? Perhaps I shall shift my modality of discourse, as seems appropriate, given what I must say, what I must tell. |
| 1 | 17 | I do not know. |
| 1 | 18 | How foolish to hesitate before such a small matter you might suppose, but to me it does not seem so small at all. |
| 1 | 19 | It might seem a simple thing, how to tell a story, but it is not so easy for me. |
| 1 | 20 | You might, of course, I do not know you, find no difficulty in this. |
| 1 | 21 | But had you had my experiences, and were you I, were you faced with yourself, and frightened, or disconcerted, or shamed, you might, too, seek to distance yourself from that most sensitive, usually most zealously concealed, of subject matters, yourself. |
| 1 | 22 | So I thought that I might begin, at least, by speaking in the third person, by considering myself, by seeing myself, from within and without, rather as an object, a particular object. |
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How shall one speak? Perhaps I shall shift my modality of discourse, as seems appropriate, given what I must say, what I must tell.
I do not know.
How foolish to hesitate before such a small matter you might suppose, but to me it does not seem so small at all.
It might seem a simple thing, how to tell a story, but it is not so easy for me.
You might, of course, I do not know you, find no difficulty in this.
But had you had my experiences, and were you I, were you faced with yourself, and frightened, or disconcerted, or shamed, you might, too, seek to distance yourself from that most sensitive, usually most zealously concealed, of subject matters, yourself.
So I thought that I might begin, at least, by speaking in the third person, by considering myself, by seeing myself, from within and without, rather as an object, a particular object.
- (Prize of Gor)