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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor (Individual Quote)

One can make nothing of a gesture language and then, suddenly, it is intelligible. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 33, Sentence #221)
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33 221 One can make View more quotes about nothing">nothing of a gesture language and then, suddenly, it is intelligible.

Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)

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33 218 What is difficult, and perhaps impossible, is suddenly at one's disposal, and, seemingly, familiar and even trivial.
33 219 Some adjustments are doubtless made of which one is not aware.
33 220 How complicated is the brain, and mysterious its secret courses and routes! Yet the phenomenon is not without precedent.
33 221 One can make nothing of a gesture language and then, suddenly, it is intelligible.
33 222 One does not understand a mode of speech, or an accent, and then, suddenly, one does.
33 223 It is the language one knows but it was seemingly distorted, concealed, or transformed, and then, as though the curtain was swept aside or the key suddenly revealed, all that which a moment ago defied comprehension is suddenly made manifest, simple, even embarrassingly so.
33 224 "I do not understand," said he who had admitted us.
What is difficult, and perhaps impossible, is suddenly at one's disposal, and, seemingly, familiar and even trivial. Some adjustments are doubtless made of which one is not aware. How complicated is the brain, and mysterious its secret courses and routes! Yet the phenomenon is not without precedent. One can make nothing of a gesture language and then, suddenly, it is intelligible. One does not understand a mode of speech, or an accent, and then, suddenly, one does. It is the language one knows but it was seemingly distorted, concealed, or transformed, and then, as though the curtain was swept aside or the key suddenly revealed, all that which a moment ago defied comprehension is suddenly made manifest, simple, even embarrassingly so. "I do not understand," said he who had admitted us. - (Plunder of Gor)