Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 18 | I write in English because it is easiest for me. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 15 | This mode of orientation is not View more quotes about gorean">Gorean, the common compass of which, with its eight cardinal points, is oriented to the Sardar, the dark, walled, mountainous abode of Priest-Kings, but founded on the Gorean poles. |
| 1 | 16 | I am utilizing this manner of speaking, as it seems to me not only convenient but suitable. |
| 1 | 17 | Should this record, then, which is written in English, and will thus be unintelligible to most Goreans, this often a boon to the writer, assuring as it does a modicum of privacy, indeed, it commonly amongst Goreans counting as a suspect, secret writing, come into the hands of any who might be familiar with English, these directions will be reasonably well understood. |
| 1 | 18 | I write in English because it is easiest for me. |
| 1 | 19 | Although I speak Gorean fluently, I can read it and write it only with difficulty. |
| 1 | 20 | This is not unusual with those of my caste, many of whom, by choice, are contemptuously, pridefully illiterate, holding themselves superior to what they despise as trivial, vulgar learning. |
| 1 | 21 | The business of their caste, then, in their view, is not with the pen but with steel, not with ink, but blood. |
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This mode of orientation is not Gorean, the common compass of which, with its eight cardinal points, is oriented to the Sardar, the dark, walled, mountainous abode of Priest-Kings, but founded on the Gorean poles.
I am utilizing this manner of speaking, as it seems to me not only convenient but suitable.
Should this record, then, which is written in English, and will thus be unintelligible to most Goreans, this often a boon to the writer, assuring as it does a modicum of privacy, indeed, it commonly amongst Goreans counting as a suspect, secret writing, come into the hands of any who might be familiar with English, these directions will be reasonably well understood.
I write in English because it is easiest for me.
Although I speak Gorean fluently, I can read it and write it only with difficulty.
This is not unusual with those of my caste, many of whom, by choice, are contemptuously, pridefully illiterate, holding themselves superior to what they despise as trivial, vulgar learning.
The business of their caste, then, in their view, is not with the pen but with steel, not with ink, but blood.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)