Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 37 | 185 | You View more quotes about thrust">thrust a stick against the ground and say you have felt the ground, and it surely seems so, but it is an illusion. |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 37 | 182 | "There are devices, technologies, here," said Desmond of Harfax, "with which we are unfamiliar. |
| 37 | 183 | What feels, and thinks, and sees? Surely you are aware that he who has lost a leg or an arm may continue to feel them, though they no longer exist. |
| 37 | 184 | Sometimes a body may be subjected to torture and ruin and no pain is felt. |
| 37 | 185 | You thrust a stick against the ground and say you have felt the ground, and it surely seems so, but it is an illusion. |
| 37 | 186 | The most you could feel is a pressure on your fingers or hand. |
| 37 | 187 | In sleep, do you not see, hear, feel, and experience, though you do not leave your couch? That the body be protected it is surely desirable that you should seem to feel, say, a pain in an injured limb, that you will remove it from danger, or tend to it, but the limb may be felt when it no longer exists. |
| 37 | 188 | Without these illusions, these precious, invaluable, wonderful illusions, how could one exist? You open your eyes and see a world, but how could this be? The world somehow stimulates you in such a way that you produce a representation of the world. |
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"There are devices, technologies, here," said Desmond of Harfax, "with which we are unfamiliar.
What feels, and thinks, and sees? Surely you are aware that he who has lost a leg or an arm may continue to feel them, though they no longer exist.
Sometimes a body may be subjected to torture and ruin and no pain is felt.
You thrust a stick against the ground and say you have felt the ground, and it surely seems so, but it is an illusion.
The most you could feel is a pressure on your fingers or hand.
In sleep, do you not see, hear, feel, and experience, though you do not leave your couch? That the body be protected it is surely desirable that you should seem to feel, say, a pain in an injured limb, that you will remove it from danger, or tend to it, but the limb may be felt when it no longer exists.
Without these illusions, these precious, invaluable, wonderful illusions, how could one exist? You open your eyes and see a world, but how could this be? The world somehow stimulates you in such a way that you produce a representation of the world.
- (Conspirators of Gor)