Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 1047 | The View more quotes about codes">codes do, you see, recommend respect for the status of the free female, if not for the female herself. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 1044 | If one, anyone, were squeamish concerning the legalities, or etiquette, of the situation, he might have simply enslaved the women, and then put them to his pleasure. |
| 1 | 1045 | Too, one supposes many men might, if only as an assertive effrontery to Priest-Kings, a way of mocking their subtleties, of refusing to suffer, might have made prompt use of the goods placed at their disposal. |
| 1 | 1046 | Cabot, of course, unwisely or not, was not such a man. |
| 1 | 1047 | The codes do, you see, recommend respect for the status of the free female, if not for the female herself. |
| 1 | 1048 | To be sure, the codes make it abundantly clear that this pertains only to females with whom one shares a Home Stone. |
| 1 | 1049 | Cabot, however, as some Warriors, tended to generalize this recommendation to free women more generally, saving, of course, those who might be insolent or abusive, or of an enemy city. |
| 1 | 1050 | Whereas there are clear cases in which the codes apply or do not apply, they, as most recommendations, rules, principles, and such, perhaps unavoidably, were occasionally afflicted with a regrettable penumbra of obscurity. |
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If one, anyone, were squeamish concerning the legalities, or etiquette, of the situation, he might have simply enslaved the women, and then put them to his pleasure.
Too, one supposes many men might, if only as an assertive effrontery to Priest-Kings, a way of mocking their subtleties, of refusing to suffer, might have made prompt use of the goods placed at their disposal.
Cabot, of course, unwisely or not, was not such a man.
The codes do, you see, recommend respect for the status of the free female, if not for the female herself.
To be sure, the codes make it abundantly clear that this pertains only to females with whom one shares a Home Stone.
Cabot, however, as some Warriors, tended to generalize this recommendation to free women more generally, saving, of course, those who might be insolent or abusive, or of an enemy city.
Whereas there are clear cases in which the codes apply or do not apply, they, as most recommendations, rules, principles, and such, perhaps unavoidably, were occasionally afflicted with a regrettable penumbra of obscurity.
- (Kur of Gor)