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| 19 | 200 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed I had sometimes wondered if she had been, perhaps over generations, given the technology of Priest-Kings, their foresight and their knowledge of the world, bred for me. |
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| 19 | 197 | Surely that would have been cruel enough, but each had been brilliantly selected, with the end in view of my suffering, that I should be torn between desire and honor, suffering indefinitely until, inevitably, I should succumb to the implacable imperatives of nature, and put them to my pleasure. |
| 19 | 198 | Had they been slaves, there had been no dilemma, but a feast of joy, but both were free women. |
| 19 | 199 | The first and I, I do not doubt, had been ingeniously matched, physically, psychologically, physiologically, and such, by all the technological and scientific brilliance of Priest-Kings, with the end in view that we should be irresistible to one another. |
| 19 | 200 | Indeed I had sometimes wondered if she had been, perhaps over generations, given the technology of Priest-Kings, their foresight and their knowledge of the world, bred for me. |
| 19 | 201 | Certainly we shared a native language, and, to an extent, a common background. |
| 19 | 202 | She was English, as I, and similarly educated. |
| 19 | 203 | We had been raised, substantially, in the same culture. |