Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 67 | 136 | View more quotes about animals">Animals who might, long ago, have found the taste of such things agreeable would fail to replicate their genes. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 67 | 133 | I think I may not eat it, but I appreciate the thought". |
| 67 | 134 | Cabot, curious, did wipe some dirt and leaves from the meat, which smelled, and put it to his tongue. |
| 67 | 135 | After a time such meat, as it spoils, will form cadaverine alkaloids, which are potently toxic. |
| 67 | 136 | Animals who might, long ago, have found the taste of such things agreeable would fail to replicate their genes. |
| 67 | 137 | Similarly, animals who happened to find the taste disagreeable, say, in the case of humans, offensively bitter, would survive. |
| 67 | 138 | It is not an inexplicable happenstance that foods which nourish beasts tend to have an agreeable taste to them and those unlikely to nourish them tend to have a disagreeable taste to them. |
| 67 | 139 | The tastes may originally have been randomly allotted in a population, distributed with indifference, but the consequences of these tastes would weigh quite differently in the scales of life and death. |
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I think I may not eat it, but I appreciate the thought".
Cabot, curious, did wipe some dirt and leaves from the meat, which smelled, and put it to his tongue.
After a time such meat, as it spoils, will form cadaverine alkaloids, which are potently toxic.
Animals who might, long ago, have found the taste of such things agreeable would fail to replicate their genes.
Similarly, animals who happened to find the taste disagreeable, say, in the case of humans, offensively bitter, would survive.
It is not an inexplicable happenstance that foods which nourish beasts tend to have an agreeable taste to them and those unlikely to nourish them tend to have a disagreeable taste to them.
The tastes may originally have been randomly allotted in a population, distributed with indifference, but the consequences of these tastes would weigh quite differently in the scales of life and death.
- (Kur of Gor)