Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 206 | On View more quotes about earth">Earth, a beautiful woman need be little but beautiful. |
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 203 | What was startling to me, and somewhat unsettling, was the comprehension that our beauty, rare as it was on Earth, might, given the selections of the acquirers, be unremarkable on this world, at least amongst importations such as we. |
| 1 | 204 | How then might women native to this world, for there must be such, view us? Not pleasantly, I supposed. |
| 1 | 205 | But, still, given our attractions, our beauty, why should we have been so unaccountably slighted, so demeaned and ridiculed? I think it was intended to shock us, informing us that our beauty here was not special, and it was not enough on this world to be beautiful. |
| 1 | 206 | On Earth, a beautiful woman need be little but beautiful. |
| 1 | 207 | Society is at her feet; men vie to serve and please her. |
| 1 | 208 | Here, on this world, on the other hand, where beauty is common, at least amongst slaves, and she is not special, she must obey, work, and perform, must now strive herself, fearfully and zealously, to please and be found pleasing. |
| 1 | 209 | "Some of you," said the man, continuing in English, "may not understand what has been done to you, what you now are. |
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What was startling to me, and somewhat unsettling, was the comprehension that our beauty, rare as it was on Earth, might, given the selections of the acquirers, be unremarkable on this world, at least amongst importations such as we.
How then might women native to this world, for there must be such, view us? Not pleasantly, I supposed.
But, still, given our attractions, our beauty, why should we have been so unaccountably slighted, so demeaned and ridiculed? I think it was intended to shock us, informing us that our beauty here was not special, and it was not enough on this world to be beautiful.
On Earth, a beautiful woman need be little but beautiful.
Society is at her feet; men vie to serve and please her.
Here, on this world, on the other hand, where beauty is common, at least amongst slaves, and she is not special, she must obey, work, and perform, must now strive herself, fearfully and zealously, to please and be found pleasing.
"Some of you," said the man, continuing in English, "may not understand what has been done to you, what you now are.
- (Quarry of Gor)