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Absurd

Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	236	To my surprise, this absurd hypothesis was welcomed by my father.	10
7	126	I shoved the log back and finally, carrying the filthy body soaked in its absurd garments, made my way to a ledge of green, dry land at the edge of the swamp.	10
8	113	Her garment was, of course, too long, as it had originally reached to the ground, covering the absurd platformlike shoes she had worn.	10

Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	94	"Did you, Oh Dark Brother of the Night, think to keep me from Ko-ro-ba?" How absurd it seemed to me that a mere sleen should have stood between me and my city.	10
14	172	But I dismissed such thoughts as absurd.	10
20	127	I think, though it may be absurd, that the beast felt that he might have failed me, that he had not carried me into the mountains.	10
20	128	I think, too, though it is perhaps still more absurd, that he knew that I would not be waiting for him when he returned from his hunt.	10
22	171	And just as in our own world it is possible to condition entire populations to believe what is, from the standpoint of another population, incomprehensible and absurd, so in Tharna both the men and the women came eventually to believe the myths or the distortions advantageous to female dominance.	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	81	I laughed, not so much because I supposed what it said was absurd, but because I supposed that, from the viewpoint of a Priest-King, what it said might well be true.	10

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	46	"If necessary, use all my resources, all! Free me!" "But Aphris," Saphrar was purring, "I am in charge of your funds and to barter them—and all your properties and goods—for one slave would be a most unwise and absurd decision on my part, irresponsible even".	10

Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	724	"It is too absurd".	10

Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	192	I would have been curious to hear the arguments of Tersites pertinent to these recommendations, but before, when it had become clear how radical and, I gather, absurd were his proposals, he had been hooted from the chamber.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	139	"That is absurd," I said.	10
8	651	How absurd that would be! He danced and turned somersaults, and sang silly songs, before the bars.	10
11	326	There was surely a time in my life when I could not have believed this, when I would have found it preposterous, absurd, incomprehensible, false.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	554	"Don't be absurd," she said.	10

Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	346	Gorean slave girls, incidentally, it might be mentioned, though it is perhaps unnecessary to do so, while sexually needful, and often pathetically so, are not sexually aggressive; that would be absurd; they are too feminine, and too vulnerable; too, they do not wish to be beaten; they are the aggres...	10

Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	346	"Do not be absurd".	10
7	214	Then I laughed, for it suddenly seemed to me absurd that such incredible conflicts should rage within me.	10
7	229	I had laughed for it had suddenly seemed to me absurd that I should even, for a moment, have allowed myself to think disapproved thoughts.	10
34	317	It seemed to me absurd to think of Miss Henderson in such terms.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	16	"That is absurd," I said.	10
22	114	How unhappy she had been on Earth! How absurd and piteous had been her attempts to conform to imposed stereotypes so heinously alien to her nature.	10
24	477	Is man so foolish, so naive and habit-bound, so fundamentally irrational, so ready to believe anything that he might be taught, no matter how absurd, that he cannot understand that torture cannot be truth.	10
30	232	"That is absurd, Master," she said.	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	1230	How absurd it would be to permit those conquered curves to languish.	10
20	1830	How absurd to care for one such as she! She is, after all, a slave.	10

Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	199	"It is absurd.	10
13	1792	"Absurd," I said.	10
14	763	In time, of course, such teachings, absurd though they might be, would come to be taken for granted.	10
17	518	"The more absurd something seems, the more likely it is to be true," said another.	10
17	519	"That seems absurd," I said.	10

Book 18. (12 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	93	"That is absurd," she said.	10
7	199	"That is absurd," she said.	10
7	320	"How absurd and stupid I was".	10
14	480	How different, then, was that absurd pretense of a veil, that sweet diaphanous sheen of material, compared to the rude, coarse sack which had now been tied over her head.	10
17	35	"That is absurd," I said.	10
18	272	How absurd, then, to me, appeared my suspicions and fears.	10
18	345	"That is absurd," said Watonka, looking rapidly about.	10
20	16	"That is absurd," said Hci.	10
22	222	"That is absurd," said Cuwignaka.	10
35	175	How absurd that I lay here, on these stones, daubed with white clay, in a vision place, alone with the trees and stars.	10
41	18	"That is absurd," I said.	10
44	711	How absurd now seemed her words, uttered hitherto with such seeming authority, but they had been empty of authority.	10

Book 19. (15 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	315	Are we not the same? Are we not identicals? Or, perhaps better, I thought, are we not supposed to pretend to be the same, to feign being identicals? But we are not, of course, actually, I thought, the same; we are not identicals truly; the thought that we were was absurd; we were very different sort...	10
2	412	But how absurd then, I thought, would have been such carryings on with such men.	10
3	67	The obviously suggested alternative would be just too unthinkable, just too absurd.	10
3	854	Then it suddenly seemed absurd to me that I should be embarrassed, or should feel guilty or ashamed, about these feelings.	10
5	142	That would teach her to be more beautiful than I! Then I thought how absurd that was.	10
6	475	Could he have been mistaken? How absurd, I thought.	10
6	596	Then I put such thoughts from my mind, as absurd.	10
6	671	"Absurd!" I said.	10
8	604	How absurd to me seemed the lightness, the casual cast, of his question.	10
16	357	This misapprehension, an error this absurd, of this gross a nature, was almost incomprehensible to me.	10
19	280	How absurd my outburst had been.	10
30	469	He let her do this for a moment or two, until she, looking up at him, realized how absurd and futile it was; then he took her by the upper arms, turned her about, and flung her back, yards back to the wall.	10
30	543	It was not, really, that I was not ready for such things, but, rather, that it would be absurd that I, not being the true Tatrix of Corcyrus, should concern myself with them.	10
33	371	Can you not see? He is making fools of us all!" Ligurious looked down, as though grieved by some irresponsible and absurd outburst.	10
36	518	"For a woman such as you to be free," said he, "would be absurd".	10

Book 20. (17 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	143	Is that not absurd?" "Why would it be absurd?" I asked.	10
2	1143	"That is absurd!" I said.	10
2	1517	It seemed that retaining that bit of modesty, however absurd or trivial it might be, was important to her.	10
5	256	"Do not be absurd!" she said.	10
6	1205	"Off with those absurd impediments to our vision," said Boots, jollily, to her.	10
7	121	"Absurd," I said.	10
9	499	Gone now were her voluminous, absurd garments, replaced merely by some loops of slave thongs holding her hands behind her back.	10
12	172	Moving little pieces of wood about on a flat, colored board! How stupid! How absurd! How foolish!" "Perhaps you have some duties to attend to elsewhere," I speculated.	10
12	183	"Perhaps it is stupid, or absurd, or foolish, that men should concern themselves with such things".	10
12	640	How absurd it seemed that the little animal should so boldly address itself to the larger, stronger brute.	10
15	87	How absurd then, and how unnatural, seemed her position of power, temporary though it might be, over these men.	10
15	96	How absurd that she could be in power over these men.	10
16	152	The very thought is absurd".	10
16	166	"Absurd!" cried Bina.	10
16	247	"This is absurd!" cried Rowena.	10
16	1172	"That is an absurd move," said Temenides.	10
21	181	What an absurd, frail, pathetic, splendid figure he must have cut there, with that silly sword and those fierce mustaches.	10

Book 21. (13 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	262	"Do not be absurd," I said.	10
4	24	From the point of view of the Alars, of course, they feel it is as absurd to pay for pasturage as it would be to pay for air, both of which are required for life.	10
16	192	"That seems absurd," said the girl.	10
16	198	"Absurd," said the girl.	10
16	212	"Absurd," said the girl.	10
16	1186	"That would be absurd," said Boabissia, angrily.	10
18	261	"That is absurd," said Boabissia.	10
25	1864	But of course, even if she should manage this, trying desperately, determinedly and elatedly, with wild hopes, to free herself, she would discover shortly, at least in this case, this discovery dashing these wild, absurd hopes, mocking all her efforts, and plunging her into despair, the fiber's ster...	10
25	1955	Doubtless she would have thought it absurd, or amusing.	10
25	2107	"Thank you," she said, "for not complying with that preposterous request, that so shortsighted, ill-advised and absurd an entreaty".	10
26	841	"A rag, or a bit of silk, would become you more than the masculine leather, so amusingly outlandish, so silly and absurd on your female body, which you seemed so fond of affecting," I said, "if, indeed, a master would permit you clothing at all".	10
26	1050	"Do not be absurd," I said.	10
26	1541	"You were not struck for such an absurd reason," I said.	10

Book 22. (19 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	123	"That is absurd," I said.	10
3	10	But that was an absurd interpretation, surely, of what had occurred.	10
3	146	How amusing, and absurd, I thought, that my teacher had said that we were slaves.	10
3	653	How absurd it seemed! Did he not know that women could do anything with impunity, that no matter what we did, even if it were to bring about the destruction of a man's manhood and the ruination of his life, we were never punished? And yet this man seemed ready to punish me for so little as a lie, or...	10
3	706	"You said that that was absurd, as I recall," he said.	10
3	708	"And it is absurd!" I felt the man's hand tighten a little in the chain.	10
3	718	"That is absurd!" I said.	10
6	321	Not such a woman! Never such a woman! But then why was she so hostile? Did she think that our service and beauty, our yielding to our hearts, lessened or demeaned her in some way? What a puzzling inference! What an absurd conclusion! What a grotesque mockery of thought that would be! Must all women ...	10
6	464	Still, the degree of "slave ignorance" in which we were being kept, not even knowing the name of our master, for example, seemed extreme, if not absurd.	10
6	816	Whereas that might have been an exaggeration, even an absurd one, it seemed that on the basis of it, I might be legitimately entitled to view myself as at least "pretty".	10
8	374	My hopes had been absurd.	10
9	486	I, a pleasure slave! Absurd! How reductive! How degrading! I wanted suddenly to prove to them that I was no pleasure slave.	10
11	650	How absurd then, and artificial, and unreal, suddenly, seemed Earth, with all its preposterous political myths, its subversion of nature, its insidious conditioning programs, its pretendings to deny the simple, obvious truths of aristocracy, its contrived trammelings of right and power, its desperat...	10
20	329	Most Goreans would regard it as absurd to let a woman go for whom one truly cared.	10
29	741	"I did it because of you!" "Absurd," said Mirus.	10
32	202	How absurd was my question! How shamed I was at my pride! How bold I had been! How could I even think of such a thing? Did I not know I was from Earth, and only a slave! But I loved him, and with the whole heart and body of me! I tendered to him the wholeness of my helpless slave's love, worthless t...	10
33	83	Surely he must! Indeed, he must care very much for me! Perhaps he even loves me, I thought, absurd though that might seem.	10
34	556	"The best slaves," he said, "are often those who on Earth are the quiet, soft, gentle, shy women, sometimes even those who fear they are unattractive, having imbibed absurd criteria from a mechanistic, pathological society, and do not know how exciting and desirable they are, the natural woman, sele...	10
34	690	How amused would be his fellows! Would he not become an object of their raillery, the butt of their rude humor? How outraged would be free women! To care for a slave! Absurd! Unthinkable! I timidly looked up at my master.	10

Book 23. (13 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	133	The same fellow who will go to absurd lengths to please a free woman, and even make a fool of himself over her, will, even with the same woman, if she has been enslaved, simply gesture her with his whip, and without a second thought, to the furs.	10
6	219	"That is absurd!" she said.	10
13	179	Doubtless he had begun to suspect that the report, though perhaps absurd or false, was authentic.	10
14	111	"That is absurd," she said.	10
21	54	Though the girl loves the master with all her heart and would never dream of fleeing from him, absurd though such a dream might be on Gor, given the branding, the collaring, the closeness of the society, and such, she knows that she is upon occasion to be put in chains.	10
21	563	In making clear to her the futility of such a lie, sure to be devastating in its consequences, and, indeed, the futility of attempting to prolong her entire absurd charade, I had saved her subjection to hideous tortures, and perhaps her life.	10
21	827	That makes them no less absurd, of course, than when they were heard amongst the women of Earth.	10
21	857	After such an experience, it is not only difficult but somewhat unrealistic and absurd for a free woman to attempt to retain her haughtiness, her arrogance and pride.	10
21	1312	That would be absurd.	10
24	349	"That is absurd," said Marcus.	10
24	355	"The whole idea is absurd," said Marcus.	10
24	356	"Is it any the less absurd," asked Aemilianus, "that Ar should have been digging latrines in winter camp while the walls of Ar's Station were crumbling?" "But Ar might still be apprised of these movements in time to interpose herself between the expeditionary force and its base at Brundisium," said ...	10
24	500	But in any case, whether because of her own pride, in itself, or her concern that I who had known her as a free woman was about, or because of the strangers in the crowd, or the other slave girls, or whatever, how woefully out of place was that absurd utterance in her new reality! But then I saw in ...	10

Book 24. (13 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	521	To be sure, it was not as absurd as it might seem for the enclosure of Philebus was said to be one of the best in the camp.	10
1	929	"Absurd!" he cried.	10
2	177	"That is absurd!" she said.	10
2	179	"Absurd!" she said.	10
2	181	"Absurd!" she whispered.	10
14	35	"You think the thought absurd?" I asked.	10
14	136	"Absurd," he said.	10
14	157	Your supposed speculations, moreover, are absurd.	10
14	169	"Absurd," said he.	10
37	471	"Absurd," said he.	10
39	147	How absurd, how incongruous this seemed! Her thigh seemed to cry out for the brand.	10
40	36	Indeed, it is so absurd that it cannot be true.	10
47	204	It would not have been absurd if he had had with him not the gold, but only a note, to be drawn on one of the banks, like strongholds, on Brundisium's Street of Coins.	10

Book 25. (17 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	327	This was absurd, of course, as the love of a slave girl is the deepest and most profound love that any woman can give a man.	10
3	258	"Absurd," said another.	10
5	49	"It is absurd," said another fellow.	10
5	71	The whole thing is absurd".	10
5	76	In making an offer of this sort, of course, Talena was implicitly claiming for herself the status of being a Ubar's daughter, else the offer would have been, as one of the fellows had suggested, absurd.	10
6	53	"That is absurd," said another.	10
6	85	"Absurd," said a fellow.	10
6	160	"That is absurd," said a man.	10
6	233	"That is absurd," said Marcus.	10
10	148	She disguises her depredations under absurd, meretricious rhetorics.	10
14	183	To be sure, it would be remiss not to remark also that, as one would expect, some of the pettiest of jealousies, the most absurd of resentments, the vilest of acrimonies and the most inveterate of hatreds can obtain among these beautiful, vain, vital creatures, who are, after all, only females.	10
16	284	"Absurd," said Marcus.	10
21	358	"'No, Mistress," I gasped, 'he sleeps me on my mat, in the corner of his room, and I am not permitted to leave it until morning!' "'Absurd!' she said.	10
26	506	"Absurd!" she said.	10
27	452	"Absurd!" she said.	10
27	871	"Absurd!" she said.	10
27	1113	"Absurd!" she said.	10

Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	888	How absurd then suddenly seemed my earlier fear, when he had put me to my back! By what right might I have expected such a dignity! But how absurd even was this thought, for a slave! Is it likely that we would be thrown on our backs for our dignity? No.	10
2	110	It was rather that, given my current situation, chained and confined as I was, it seemed to me that any such pleas, or demands, or such, would be absurd.	10
2	136	If it would be stupid, or absurd, as I suspected, if not dangerous, to pretend to a belligerent stance, to protest, or threaten, or to appeal to legalities, the purport of which might well be aligned precisely against one, then perhaps, I thought, one might appeal to the pity, the mercies, of one's ...	10
7	653	It is absurd.	10
11	928	Should I have tried to be unresponsive and frigid, and thus, in some absurd or perverted sense, have attempted to uphold the honor of the women of Earth? And it was not merely that in the pens many of my inhibitions had been forcibly removed from me and that my natural sexuality had been freed and e...	10
11	1214	How insulting and absurd would have been such a request of men such as these.	10
11	1217	It would be as absurd and meaningless for us to be freed on this world as it would be for a dog or horse to be freed on my former world.	10
14	1783	"An absurd thought!" she said.	10
19	1082	But that is absurd".	10
29	423	"Indeed," he cried, "you are slave beautiful! You should never have been a free woman! How absurd that freedom should have been permitted to you! What a woeful mistake! Such a body is born for the collar! It is incomplete without it!" She stood silent before him, scrutinized, inspected.	10
31	30	"We came yesterday to the pits, and you put us off with some absurd technicality".	10
31	521	How absurd, if for so little, not even comprehended, our throats might be cut! No wonder we were so miserable, so frightened! The peasant stood there now like a beast at bay.	10
35	49	The powerful, healthy man is aggressive and lustful; what is he to do when he realizes at last he has been mistreated, denied, cheated, starved, and shamed; he may rise up with a snarl; let the wife be dismayed to discover she is to her horror then in the vicinity of a man; what does he care; let hi...	10
37	660	"That is absurd," said the lieutenant.	10
46	80	"How absurd," he cried, in anger, "to love a slave!" "Master?" I said.	10

Book 27. (20 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	911	How could he then respect her? But how absurd was such a concern! Dignity, respect, and such, were not for slaves.	10
12	321	The notion of a democracy of two was absurd.	10
17	340	"That is absurd! I would never do that! Never! Never!" "We saw you," said Cichek.	10
17	664	It is absurd that a natural slave should be permitted freedom".	10
19	184	"Absurd," said Selius Arconious.	10
19	185	Not absurd, she thought.	10
20	323	That is what would be regarded as unnatural and absurd.	10
23	266	"Absurd," he said.	10
24	51	But certainly her "thighs did not steam for him," and the mere sight of him did not "lubricate her for the mastery," nor had she followed him "like a she-sleen in heat"! No! Never! That was absurd! "Lying little slave girl," she said to herself.	10
26	702	"Absurd," said a man.	10
26	877	"Absurd," he said.	10
26	885	"Absurd," he said.	10
26	1492	"Absurd".	10
27	1371	Why should they? It would be absurd that they should.	10
27	1979	"That is absurd," said the officer.	10
27	2773	"Do not be absurd," said the officer.	10
28	232	One does not ignore such! She would not be looked upon as he looks upon me! Would he not give her his undivided attention? Would he not treat her with the utmost civility and regard! Would he not esteem her and be solicitous for her, and see to it, as he could, that her many wants and concerns, howe...	10
28	367	"Do not be absurd, my friend," said Mirus.	10
29	230	It was as though he was prepared to let her believe that he might have been so naive as to have accepted her own self-regarding, trivializing assessment of her infractions, which was, of course, absurd, as she now grasped, but was yet at the same time making quite clear to her something that she sho...	10
30	517	Might the master not be annoyed or embarrassed by something as unwelcome and absurd as, say, the explicit expression of a slave's love? She lies then at the foot of her master's couch.	10

Book 28. (17 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	22	How absurd, how repulsive, one supposes, that we are siblings in virtue of the parentage of stars.	10
1	541	It would seem absurd to lash them for such ignorances as their culture has not prepared them to perform such tasks.	10
1	1270	Could she be longing for a master? Was that what it was to be a woman, to be a slave? Then she, a civilized beauty of station, position, and class, the young, spoiled, pampered, proud, self-righteous scion of a pathological acculturation, put aside such thoughts as offensive and absurd, and consider...	10
2	85	I suppose one might speak of it, if it is not too absurd to do so, as a smile.	10
3	311	She must have felt she looked absurd, for she quickly knelt, again.	10
21	649	"He is defeating Agamemnon by finding such a combat beneath his dignity, by demonstrating his mockery of such an absurd contest, by making it clear to the world that Agamemnon, in assuming this body and arrogating to himself its advantages, has abandoned all pretence to, or claim to, honor".	10
22	77	Here, in this place, her feigning, her pretenses of bravado, her postures of indifference, and such, suddenly seemed pointless and absurd, even to her.	10
27	66	"You so aroused me that I begged piteously for my own deflowering!" "Do not use so absurd an expression," he said.	10
29	88	"Probably it was contrived in such an extensive and absurd way to compensate for the brevity and plainness of the surname".	10
34	240	"Absurd," said Cabot.	10
40	85	"How could I, knowing what I now know, be content with something so shallow, something so meaningless, with something so tepid and absurd?" "Would you not prefer to be pridefully resistant, inert, and cool?" "It would cheat me of myself," she said.	10
43	162	"That is absurd," said Cabot.	10
49	32	"Absurd," said Grendel.	10
61	214	"That is absurd," said Flavion.	10
78	117	"Do not be absurd," said Corinna.	10
80	321	"I," she laughed, "being sold! Absurd! I am a free woman!" "I assure you," said Cabot.	10
80	351	"Do not be absurd," said Cabot.	10

Book 29. (19 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	418	"Do not be absurd.	10
2	357	"Absurd," he said.	10
5	373	She is subject to that, but what would be the point of it? To a Gorean such things would be incomprehensible, or absurd.	10
5	973	But that would have been absurd, for they were slaves.	10
9	19	"Absurd!" snapped Miss Wentworth.	10
9	91	She, a slave! How absurd! How disgusting! To be sure, this would have meant only that another would have been sought in her place, and she would have been placed on an acquisition list for a later pick up, not as an agent, of course, but merely as another slave, her beauty perhaps then indistinguish...	10
10	102	If, however, a contract woman might find herself in love with a client, she, being quite human, and utterly helpless in her contractual status, might, understandably, resent his interest in, say, another contract woman, or, even, as absurd as it might seem, a collar-girl.	10
10	280	She does look absurd, or silly, with her mouth so widely opened, the ball fastened in place.	10
13	261	These sorts of claims, of course, were absurd, as there was no dearth of beauty on Gor.	10
13	309	It was as though she feared somehow, as absurd as it might seem, she being so secure, and being Ubara, that she might feel the capture rope upon her any instant, like a common or private woman, and be carried away into what fate she knew not, perhaps even one as frightful as the collar itself.	10
15	174	"Absurd," said Pertinax.	10
15	183	"Absurd," said Pertinax.	10
18	158	That would be absurd for a Gorean.	10
18	475	I hoped that Pertinax, from his absurd conditioning on Earth, would not scorn her for her vitality, and needs.	10
22	447	Or do they know themselves slaves, lacking only a master? How, I thought, might a civilization distort and pervert truth! How it can veil nature and conceal reality! How it can demean one thing and bedeck another, how it can in so many ways flee the serious, mighty, and worthy, and embrace the insig...	10
27	137	Did he truly think the women of Earth, I wondered, were different from, or superior to, the women of Gor? That seemed to me absurd.	10
28	408	How absurd that was! She had never been ranged naked in a coffle, standing, legs widely spread, hands clasped behind the back of her head, for assessment.	10
30	123	He had tried to bring several of his proposals, dreams, and ideas, before the council, but they had been deemed too radical, even absurd, and had provoked much derision.	10
43	79	It was absurd.	10

Book 30. (14 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	22	"Absurd," laughed a man.	10
2	190	How absurd to have fired flaming javelins at such a vessel.	10
8	121	Even within the bundling of the furs heaped upon them their bodies could not be concealed, the figure, the slightness, and movements, no more than those of free women could be entirely concealed within the layers of their fanciful, absurd robes.	10
9	440	"Absurd!" cried Seremides.	10
10	19	Yesterday, half delirious, I had had the absurd notion that the work had been less arduous.	10
18	181	I dismissed the thought as absurd.	10
19	163	That is absurd.	10
20	76	Could the slave, I wondered, be truly enwrapped in the toils of love? How absurd that would be! But I knew that no love could compare with the love of a slave for her master, the love of a vulnerable, helpless slave, who may be beaten or sold on a whim, for her master.	10
21	804	Would it not be absurd to veil a verr, or kaiila? Such an inhibition seldom lasts past a girl's first switching.	10
24	308	To claim however that she was the most beautiful woman on all Gor seemed absurd.	10
25	123	To me, that seemed absurd.	10
28	284	Never! How absurd such a thought, for such a woman! If I owned her, I thought, she would well know herself slave.	10
33	14	The comments of those about the small table were uttered in the way of good-natured raillery, and were not designed to disparage or affront a fellow, but, rather, to let him know they were not the sort to be taken in, not the sort to give credit to the absurd, the wild, and incredible, that they wer...	10
37	369	"I have eluded that danger, if ever it was a danger, which very thought seems absurd.	10

Book 31. (9 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	1791	How absurd, I thought, that one should ask that of a slave.	10
22	69	Why then had he not seized me, and cast me to his feet, and pointed to his boots that I might lie on my belly before him, and cover them, as I wished, with the kisses of a trembling, submitted slave? Why had he not done so? What an absurd excuse, honor! What was honor? There was blood, steel, and go...	10
23	160	"Absurd," said Trachinos.	10
26	435	"Do not be absurd," he said.	10
33	101	If it were not absurd, so out of the question, biologically, and such, one might have thought some sort of infatuation, even love, was involved.	10
37	195	"Absurd," said a man.	10
37	213	"This is absurd," said a man.	10
37	216	"Absurd," said the fellow, again.	10
52	306	Was he fighting his own feelings? Might that be? Was he afraid of himself, and his feelings, standing before one who was no more than a kneeling, helpless, collared, branded animal? Did he now fear that he might care for a mere slave? How absurd! What had he to fear? The collar was on my neck, and h...	10

Book 32. (12 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	53	I dismissed, as I could, such apprehensions as unfounded, even absurd.	10
14	270	I did frequent the slave houses, from time to time, however, as the mat slaves were often changed, not, of course, to look for her, which would have been absurd, but as a matter of idle curiosity.	10
16	190	"That is unthinkable, absurd".	10
30	33	She seemed to have the foolish idea that I might be interested in a particular slave, which was absurd, for are they not all the same in a collar? What difference did it make, one or another? "Asperiche," he said, "wishes to be a preferred slave, and she fears she is not yours".	10
33	143	How I had dismissed their whisperings as absurd, and yet, at the same time, wondered if I might appeal to the slavers of such a world.	10
38	285	"Absurd," he said.	10
38	286	"Yes," she said, "it is absurd".	10
40	149	It seemed absurd to think of freeing a woman, certainly once you had a chain on her.	10
43	354	Even strong men may have their weaknesses, their absurd flaws.	10
48	16	How absurd was that thought! Who was this Margaret Alyssa Cameron? I was not Margaret Alyssa Cameron.	10
50	905	"That is absurd," said another.	10
52	580	It would be absurd to slay them.	10

Book 33. (14 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	35	How absurd to suspect that wars lurked behind wars.	10
7	245	"Such thoughts are absurd," I said.	10
7	246	"What lies within the hearts of men," he said, "is seldom absurd".	10
11	332	Have you never seen his calligraphy?" "Do not be absurd," I said.	10
13	333	"Absurd," she said.	10
13	348	"Absurd," she said.	10
13	350	"That is absurd," she said.	10
21	216	"Do not be absurd," she said.	10
29	475	Had I detected a thrill of submission in those simple words? Had the radical sexual dimorphism of the human species suddenly become real to her? Did she understand it at last? Did she sense the possible fulfillments, and liberation, of the collar, the joy of a sensed, unalloyed, apprehended truth, a...	10
34	25	Such a thought is absurd.	10
54	235	It would be as unavailing as an angry, absurd straw flung against a cliff of stone".	10
59	67	"That is absurd," said Lord Yamada.	10
61	559	As the whole matter seemed tenuous and obscure, and doubtful, and nothing had come of it, I had dismissed it as false, even absurd, and, at best, as hearsay, founded on ungrounded rumor, if that.	10
61	778	"Do not be absurd," I said.	10

Book 34. (18 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	52	"Do not be absurd," I said, uneasily.	10
2	67	"Absurd," I said.	10
2	68	"If there was such a world," she said, "might it not hint its presence in a hundred ways, content even to be perceived as fiction?" "Absurd!" I said, angrily.	10
9	469	I said five gold tarsks, to assure myself that she would not buy you, as the price is absurd".	10
16	68	"Perhaps they think I am a runaway free woman," I said, "a free lover, concealing herself as a slave?" "Do not be absurd," he said.	10
17	9	It would be incomprehensible; it would be absurd; it would make no sense.	10
27	92	"Discard your disguise, hasten to the tavern!" "Do not be absurd," he said.	10
30	373	"Whip me! I want to be whipped!" "Do not be absurd," he had laughed, and pulled me to him.	10
33	100	"Absurd," said he who had admitted us.	10
33	127	"Absurd," said he who had admitted us.	10
34	78	How this arrogance had angered me! How absurd it was! The women of Earth and those of Gor were of identical stock.	10
36	53	"Our meeting," I said, "was not a coincidence?" "Do not be absurd," he said.	10
42	161	"Absurd," she said.	10
42	188	Your story is absurd.	10
50	460	It would be absurd then to do her hurt.	10
51	344	Could he care for me, I wondered, wildly, if only a little? Then I chastised myself for so naive and absurd a thought.	10
60	69	"Do not be absurd," he said.	10
67	54	"Mindlessly obedient to absurd prescriptions," he said.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	542	Even to think of escape is absurd".	10
20	7	How I was to taunt him, how I was to make him suffer, how I was to bend him to my will, how I was to manipulate him! All these aims and ambitions had vanished; how barren proved such absurd projects and programs; these tactics and formulas had evaporated; did I still think I was a free woman of Eart...	10
23	78	"How absurd it is," I thought.	10
23	136	My attire, seemingly so inexplicable and absurd, attracted much attention and, I fear, some derision.	10
26	87	But now all is fruitless, and absurd.	10
29	14	So one man can kill another? Is that so important? Is that so precious an accomplishment, a guerdon to be so earnestly sought? Should one not turn one's back on so absurd a game, scorning its madness, and yet few Goreans care being denounced as cowards.	10
33	568	How absurd that was! There was nowhere to escape to.	10
37	234	"Do not be absurd," said the Lady Dorna, angrily.	10
40	153	"Absurd," said Astron.	10

Book 36. (6 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	1	The Parley "You are, I take it," I said, "the dreaded Bosk of Port Kar, come from that port known to many as the Scourge of Thassa, that Bosk of Port Kar come to mercilessly pillage and plunder the innocent, peace-loving Farther Islands of Thassa, Thera, Chios, and Daphna?" "I am indeed he, Bosk, o...	10
36	169	She lifted her head and shook it, and turned it from side to side, wildly, as though she could somehow, by such an absurd means, free herself of the collar.	10
38	34	"Yes," I said, "but how and to what extent?" "It is absurd to try to enlist him in our cause," said Thurnock.	10
40	4	"It is absurd.	10
40	56	"Even if what you say is true," said Thrasymedes, "it would be absurd to abandon the town and risk the fields.	10
54	125	In Gorean thinking such an option is absurd.	10