Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 62 | Like most View more quotes about others">others she had been acculturated in a thousand subtle ways to minimize, to conceal and deny the natural, organic sweetnesses of her musculature and structure, conditioned into a dignified, formal physical neutership, the stiffness, reserve and tightness so much approved of in females in a mechanistic, industrial, technological society, in which machines govern and present the symbols and paradigms of movement, understood as repetition, measure, regularity, precision and function. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 59 | To one side, stripped, bound tightly in black leather, hand and foot, straps crossing between her breasts and circling her thighs, to which her wrists were secured, in buckled cuffs, knelt a whitish-skinned girl, blond, frightened. |
| 1 | 60 | Her shoulders, like those of most females of Earth, were tight, tense. |
| 1 | 61 | The tone of her body, like that of most Earth women, was rigid, defensive. |
| 1 | 62 | Like most others she had been acculturated in a thousand subtle ways to minimize, to conceal and deny the natural, organic sweetnesses of her musculature and structure, conditioned into a dignified, formal physical neutership, the stiffness, reserve and tightness so much approved of in females in a mechanistic, industrial, technological society, in which machines govern and present the symbols and paradigms of movement, understood as repetition, measure, regularity, precision and function. |
| 1 | 63 | Human beings move differently in a technological society than in a nontechnological society; they hold their bodies differently; a man or woman's acculturation is visible in their demeanor. |
| 1 | 64 | Few people understand this; most view as natural motions and body positions which are the consequences of a subconsciously conditioned, mechanistic ballet, a choreography of puppets, imitating the models, the stridencies, in which they find themselves enmeshed. |
| 1 | 65 | Yet, somewhere beneath the conditioned behavior lies the animal, which moved naturally before there was a civilization to teach it the proprieties of mechanism. |
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To one side, stripped, bound tightly in black leather, hand and foot, straps crossing between her breasts and circling her thighs, to which her wrists were secured, in buckled cuffs, knelt a whitish-skinned girl, blond, frightened.
Her shoulders, like those of most females of Earth, were tight, tense.
The tone of her body, like that of most Earth women, was rigid, defensive.
Like most others she had been acculturated in a thousand subtle ways to minimize, to conceal and deny the natural, organic sweetnesses of her musculature and structure, conditioned into a dignified, formal physical neutership, the stiffness, reserve and tightness so much approved of in females in a mechanistic, industrial, technological society, in which machines govern and present the symbols and paradigms of movement, understood as repetition, measure, regularity, precision and function.
Human beings move differently in a technological society than in a nontechnological society; they hold their bodies differently; a man or woman's acculturation is visible in their demeanor.
Few people understand this; most view as natural motions and body positions which are the consequences of a subconsciously conditioned, mechanistic ballet, a choreography of puppets, imitating the models, the stridencies, in which they find themselves enmeshed.
Yet, somewhere beneath the conditioned behavior lies the animal, which moved naturally before there was a civilization to teach it the proprieties of mechanism.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)