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| 20 | 149 | But what if he should only View more quotes about look">look upon her with perception, and scorn, and laugh? What if he would feel no guilt, no shame, but would see her in triumph as she should be, a female at his feet, in her place in nature, in a collar? Cultures seldom conform to the needs and desires of human beings, but will have the needs and desires of human beings conform to them. |
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| 20 | 146 | That is an extremely dangerous thing for a slave girl to do. |
| 20 | 147 | Perhaps, in order to more successfully exploit him, she would attempt to enlist the social engineering to which he had been subjected on Earth, attempting to instill guilt in him, attempting to make him feel ashamed of the pleasure with which he, as a man, might now regard her, as a slave. |
| 20 | 148 | Surely such might seem an attractive female stratagem to a naive, conniving slave, particularly to one of Earth origin, to whom such a device might seem plausible. |
| 20 | 149 | But what if he should only look upon her with perception, and scorn, and laugh? What if he would feel no guilt, no shame, but would see her in triumph as she should be, a female at his feet, in her place in nature, in a collar? Cultures seldom conform to the needs and desires of human beings, but will have the needs and desires of human beings conform to them. |
| 20 | 150 | They are, in a sense, as the bed of Procrustes, to which the human being is to be fitted, at whatever cost to his life or limbs, to his health or happiness. |
| 20 | 151 | "You must learn to strike her yourself," I said. |
| 20 | 152 | "How could I do that?" asked Pertinax. |