Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 58 | The contests I mentioned which View more quotes about take">take place at the fairs are, as would be expected, peaceable, or I should say, at least do not involve contests of arms. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 55 | The commercial facilities of these fairs, from money changing to general banking, are the finest I know of on Gor, save those in Ar's Street of Coins, and letters of credit are accepted and loans negotiated, though often at usurious rates, with what seems reckless indifference. |
| 1 | 56 | Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant Law when pertinent, even against their own citizens. |
| 1 | 57 | If they did not, of course, the fairs would be closed to the citizens of that city. |
| 1 | 58 | The contests I mentioned which take place at the fairs are, as would be expected, peaceable, or I should say, at least do not involve contests of arms. |
| 1 | 59 | Indeed it is considered a crime against the Priest-Kings to bloody one's weapons at the fairs. |
| 1 | 60 | The Priest-Kings, I might note, seem to be more tolerant of bloodshed in other localities. |
| 1 | 61 | Contests of arms, fought to the death, whereas they may not take place at the fairs, are not unknown on Gor, and are popular in some cities. |
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The commercial facilities of these fairs, from money changing to general banking, are the finest I know of on Gor, save those in Ar's Street of Coins, and letters of credit are accepted and loans negotiated, though often at usurious rates, with what seems reckless indifference.
Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant Law when pertinent, even against their own citizens.
If they did not, of course, the fairs would be closed to the citizens of that city.
The contests I mentioned which take place at the fairs are, as would be expected, peaceable, or I should say, at least do not involve contests of arms.
Indeed it is considered a crime against the Priest-Kings to bloody one's weapons at the fairs.
The Priest-Kings, I might note, seem to be more tolerant of bloodshed in other localities.
Contests of arms, fought to the death, whereas they may not take place at the fairs, are not unknown on Gor, and are popular in some cities.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)