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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. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 33, Sentence #223)

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. "Continue," said Kurik. "Long ago, in Ar, I had had a similar experience, on Emerald, in the vicinity of the fountain of Aiakos," I said. - (Plunder of Gor)