Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 17 | View more quotes about salt">Salt, in its bowls on the tables, divided men into rankings. |
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 14 | The seat is "high" in the sense of being a seat of great honor. |
| 13 | 15 | There was, extending almost the length of the hall, a pit for a "long fire," over which food was prepared for retainers. |
| 13 | 16 | On the long sides of the hall, on the north and south, there were long tables, with benches. |
| 13 | 17 | Salt, in its bowls on the tables, divided men into rankings. |
| 13 | 18 | Those sitting above the salt were accorded greater prestige than those sitting below it. |
| 13 | 19 | If one sat between the salt and the high seat, one sat "above" the salt; if one sat between the salt and the entrance to the hall, one sat "below" the salt. |
| 13 | 20 | At the high-seat table, that at which the high seat sat, all counted as being "above the salt". |
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The seat is "high" in the sense of being a seat of great honor.
There was, extending almost the length of the hall, a pit for a "long fire," over which food was prepared for retainers.
On the long sides of the hall, on the north and south, there were long tables, with benches.
Salt, in its bowls on the tables, divided men into rankings.
Those sitting above the salt were accorded greater prestige than those sitting below it.
If one sat between the salt and the high seat, one sat "above" the salt; if one sat between the salt and the entrance to the hall, one sat "below" the salt.
At the high-seat table, that at which the high seat sat, all counted as being "above the salt".
- (Marauders of Gor)