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Knowledge

Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	73	I wondered, however, if the Second Knowledge, that of the intellectuals, might not be as carefully tailored to preclude inquiry on their level as the First Knowledge apparently was to preclude inquiry on the level of the Lower Castes.	10
3	74	I would guess that there is a Third Knowledge, that reserved to the Priest-Kings.	10
3	80	"In fact, in the First Knowledge, there is a story told to the young in their public nurseries, that if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin".	10
3	132	Earth origin, incidentally, was not a part of the First Knowledge, though it was of the Second.	10
3	133	"Torm," I once asked, "why is Earth origin not part of the First Knowledge?" "Is it not self-evident?" he asked.	10
3	141	It was still too rigid, in my opinion, particularly with respect to the selection of rulers from the High Castes and with respect to the Double Knowledge.	10
4	83	On the level of the First Knowledge, it is maintained that knowing the real name gives one a power over a person, a capacity to use that name in spells and insidious magical practices.	10
4	86	At the level of the Second Knowledge, of course, the High Castes, at least in general, recognize the baseless superstition of the Lower Castes and use their own names comparatively freely, usually followed by the name of their city.	10
14	128	"It is common knowledge in the camp of Pa-Kur," replied Marlenus.	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	10	Even men of a caste as low as that of the Tarn-Keepers were intolerably proud of their calling, for who else could raise and train those monstrous birds of prey? I supposed Zosk the Woodsman was proud in the knowledge that he with his great broad-headed ax could fell a tree in one blow, and that per...	10
8	28	Though on Gor the free maiden is by custom expected to see her future companion only after her parents have selected him, it is common knowledge that he is often a youth she has met in the marketplace.	10
19	152	The power and knowledge of the Priest-Kings is perhaps beyond the comprehension of mortal men, or, as it is said on Gor, of the Men Below the Mountains.	10
26	120	Could Priest-Kings, with their knowledge and power, have need of such a man? But Priest-Kings need nothing from men, and once more my thoughts grow foolish.	10

Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	155	Those of the High Castes of Gor are permitted by the Priest-Kings only the Second Knowledge, and those of the lower castes are permitted only the more rudimentary First Knowledge.	10
5	156	I had speculated that there would be a Third Knowledge, that reserved for Priest-Kings, and the girl's account seemed to justify this conjecture.	10
15	142	"But will he continue to learn later?" "Of course," said Misk, "but he will build on a rather complete knowledge of what his ancestors have learned in the past.	10
16	83	"But much of our knowledge comes from our implants," said Misk.	10
17	108	"Surely," I said bitterly, "with all the knowledge and power of Priest-Kings you could build something mechanical, a robot, which might resemble a man and do this work for you".	10
25	19	Well could I imagine her fury upon the receipt of this announcement, a fury not diminished in the least by the knowledge that the words I spoke were simply and prosaically true.	10
30	88	My first knowledge of this came one morning when suddenly I awakened in my chains to the fierce bite of a leather lash.	10
33	115	Suppose that even now if they knew the truth—what would change? Would I really expect them—at least on the whole—to burn their robes, to surrender their claims to secret knowledge and powers, to pick up the hoes of Peasants, the needles of the Cloth Workers, to bend their energi...	10

Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

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1	36	No caravans, to my knowledge, make their way to the Wagon Peoples, who are largely isolated and have their own way of life.	10
2	3	Some years before, perhaps between two and five years before, as the culmination of an intrigue enduring centuries, two men, humans from the walled cities of Gor, had, for the sake of Priest-Kings, undertaken a long, secret journey, carrying an object to the Wagon Peoples, an object bestowed on them...	10
21	164	The Caste of Bakers is not regarded as a high caste, to which one looks for nobility and such; and yet her father and her brothers, outnumbered, had fought and died for their tiny shop; and this courageous girl, with a valor I might not have expected of many warriors, weaponless, alone and friendles...	10

Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	740	It was, like the tarn goad, developed jointly by the Caste of Physicians and that of the Builders, the Physicians contributing knowledge of the pain fibers of human beings, the networks of nerve endings, and the Builders contributing certain principles and techniques developed in the construction an...	10
11	54	They had doubtless been watched, without their knowledge studied and investigated, their habits noted, their common movements and routines recorded, for months prior to the strike of the slaver at a predetermined place and time.	10
13	14	The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission, the securing of a female, preferably fr...	10
14	102	I had not known, for example, and I gathered it was not common knowledge, about the many sorties to the Voltai to find and slay Marlenus, sorties which had invariably failed.	10
15	365	But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a...	10
19	434	To my knowledge never in the Curulean had a set of three girls brought such a price.	10
24	226	I remember among this business arose the matter of more than one hundred exotic slaves from the House of Cernus, the white-robed girls who had been raised without the knowledge of the existence of men.	10

Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	274	The fighting ship, incidentally, the long ship, the ram-ship, has never been, to my knowledge, in Port Kar, or Cos, or Tyros, or elsewhere on Gor, rowed by slaves; the Gorean fighting ship always has free men at the oars.	10
14	440	The fact that many women of Earth do not affect the veil is one of the reasons that many Goreans, who are familiar with the Second Knowledge, or have witnessed such women being brought in chains to the market, perhaps still in shreds of their Earth clothing, regard them as shameless, and as curvaceo...	10
18	391	"And I was taught many other things, too," said she, "when I could read, even to the second knowledge".	10
18	868	"Not to his knowledge," said Samos.	10
18	956	This was an expression, in the first knowledge, for the sea some hundred pasangs west of Cos and Tyros, beyond which the ships of Goreans do not go, or if go, do not return.	10
18	957	Samos, of course, knew as well as I the limitations of the first knowledge.	10
18	960	Telima, too, of course, having been educated through the second knowledge in the house of Samos, knew that "world's end" was, to the educated Gorean, a figurative expression.	10

Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	76	The ship that had brought me here, I knew, even with my limited knowledge of such matters, was far beyond the present capabilities of any of the civilizations of Earth.	10
10	569	Of what value, I wondered, is the virginity of a slave girl? Of what value is the virginity of a horse, or of a dog or cat, or pig? That I was a virgin, of course, that I was "white silk," was public knowledge.	10
13	532	The noise, the knowledge that I was being hunted, made me suddenly feel irrational, driven.	10
15	1468	I have been educated in the second knowledge, so I know of your world.	10
17	365	"I have learned that a woman, without my knowledge, has been entered into this house.	10
17	447	I knew that he did not want me for he had sold me, but I was content in the knowledge that he, whom I loved, lived.	10
17	464	I do not understand all of what I have written, in the sense of knowing its implications, or what knowledge others, better informed, may draw from it.	10

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	108	He might speak in the accents of Tyros, but startle you with his knowledge of the habits of wild tarns, knowledge one would expect to find only in one of Thentis.	10
11	697	She stood as a slave, because she now knew herself as a slave, and this knowledge was reflected, inevitably, in her stance.	10
15	51	Gorean men, familiar with the second knowledge, regard the women of Earth as natural slaves.	10
15	222	To the best of their knowledge they were the only panther girls in the area.	10

Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	200	The knowledge is regarded as being somehow within one.	10
11	209	This was, to my knowledge, the boldest and most dangerous move of the Others, the Kurii, to this date.	10
17	61	Never before, to my knowledge, had men attacked Kurii.	10

Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	157	Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd...	10
13	385	I did not know if Priest-Kings, with all their brilliance, and all their great stores of knowledge on their scent-tapes, had a glandular and neurological system with which the motivations and nature of Kurii could be understood.	10
13	413	Too, some Goreans, those familiar with the Second Knowledge, occasionally have some inkling, though an imperfect one, of certain negativistic, antibiological cultural pathologies of Earth, in virtue of which they suspect that some of the Earth women may have formed incorrect views on certain matters...	10
15	164	Knowledge of the trails is vital.	10
26	783	The knowledge that they may be whipped, and will be, if not pleasing, is sufficient to encourage them to diligence.	10

Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	136	Once I had nearly had my throat cut for my lack of knowledge of "Bina," or slave beads.	10
12	513	One of the most frightening things to a girl about the whip is the knowledge that the Gorean male, if he is not pleased with her, will use it, and without hesitation.	10

Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	215	Interrogated, she is likely to be ignorant of many details of the Gorean world which are common knowledge to Goreans.	10

Book 13. (8 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	19	No cases to my knowledge had been reported for months.	10
18	135	If he revealed that I was not what I seemed, it might seem reasonable to inquire into the sources of his knowledge.	10
19	108	His plan, if successful, then, would permit him not only to secure the ring but rid himself of me as well, one who shared with him the secret knowledge of the ring and one who might desire to be himself the agent by which the ring was to be transmitted to Belisarius in Cos, for subsequent return to ...	10
27	186	What need they know of their transition between the status of the free woman and that of the despised, vendible animal? It is not for such as they a knowledge of the nature and modalities of their transport.	10
27	238	Many Goreans, even those educated to the second knowledge, that afforded the higher castes, find it hard to believe that the delicious Earth women who show up in their markets could possibly have been free on their native world.	10
27	244	Would it not be madness to let such beauties, kneeling before you, out of your collar? A Gorean saying, of the second knowledge, has it that a steel collar locked on the throat of an Earth woman is perfect.	10
48	164	Gorean slave girls are, to the best of my knowledge, seldom whipped.	10
57	269	Like Evelyn I had bought Sasi yesterday, without her knowledge, for delivery to the wharf this morning.	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	115	"It is common knowledge".	10
18	170	As the story went, and my own knowledge, as far as it went, corroborated the story, she had wagered what were, in effect, her last serious financial resources, the proceeds garnered from the sale of her house in Venna, on the outcomes of certain tharlarion races.	10
29	22	"No!" "It is common knowledge," she said.	10

Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	55	"Not to my knowledge," I said.	10
21	29	Thus, some Goreans, denied what is called "the second knowledge," who do not realize that Earth is a different planet, but think of it rather as simply some remote district, suppose that "girls from Earth" are simply slave booty similar to that obtained in other far places, all on their own world.	10
21	104	"Perhaps he is gone now, for he has not been tonight, to my knowledge, in the tavern".	10
22	118	The shaping of heads and the bindings of feet, such gross interferences with nature, are common knowledge; but the shapings and bindings of minds, even more hideous, seems seldom detected.	10
29	139	"But no effort, even a small one, or one in force or desperation, by steel or by guile, was made to prevent its placing?" "None, at least to my knowledge," said Callisthenes.	10
32	75	In the river towns the dangers of these times were common knowledge.	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	267	How frightening, for her, to realize that one has such value! And yet in its way how exciting, and thrilling! Few women object to their beauty, to their desirability, to their allure, to the knowledge that they are the sort of woman whom men want, really want, truly want.	10
20	488	"They would also be the garments in which, for the first time, to my knowledge, she had ever dared to explicitly express her femininity".	10

Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	582	In their way, given my lack of knowledge in these matters, they had been trying to take advantage of me.	10
13	1479	"Such matters are public knowledge about slaves, as much as the color of their hair and eyes, and their collar size".	10
13	1481	"Public knowledge," I assured her, "if anyone should be interested".	10

Book 18. (4 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	333	In another way, Grunt's familiarity to the Kaiila, for he had visited them last year, and was close to Mahpiyasapa, Black Clouds, the civil chieftain of the Isbu, and his knowledge of their language, which closely resembles Dust Leg, garnered him a similar protection.	10
3	260	"Not to my knowledge," I said.	10
22	191	"But even if she is not so fortunate as to be owned by such a man, there is a gratification for her in being made to kneel and obey, and, will-lessly, serve, a gratification connected with the fulfillment of her nature as lover and slave, and connected, too, with the knowledge that she is now at las...	10
37	440	This is particularly true of women who have some familiarity with them, who know something of their swiftness, their savagery and their ferocity, who have some knowledge of what they can accomplish.	10

Book 19. (10 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	782	The classical knowledge distinctions on Gor tend to follow caste lines, the first knowledge being regarded as appropriate for the lower castes and the second knowledge for the higher castes.	10
33	122	The proprietary attention that men pay to their properties and the pleasure they take in them are matters of common knowledge.	10
33	375	What sort of evidence would you wish? How do we know, for example, that you are really Drusus Rencius, a captain from Ar? Or that I am Miles, a general from Argentum? Or that he is Ligurious, who was the first minister in Corcyrus? How do we know anyone in this room is who we think? Perhaps we are a...	10
33	748	"Such thoughts are surely to be reserved for the second, or third knowledge," said another man.	10
33	751	Knowledge is one.	10
33	779	"That Earth is real is in the second knowledge," said one of the men, a fellow wearing the yellow of the Builders, a high caste.	10
33	783	That there is a third knowledge, that of Priest-Kings, is also a common belief.	10
33	784	The distinctions, however, between knowledge tend to be somewhat imperfect and artificial.	10
33	785	For example, the second knowledge, while required of the higher castes and not of the lower castes, is not prohibited to the lower castes.	10
36	556	In any event, the slave name, and the knowledge that it is a slave name, deeply, and appropriately, informs the consciousness of the slave.	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	81	How furious and indignant, how outraged and shamed, she would have been to have learned that she had been looked upon without her knowledge, looked upon surreptitiously when her face was as bared as that of a slave.	10
16	200	"If there should be anything wrong with the coins," said Rowena, "I assure you we have no knowledge of it.	10
18	299	Secure the palace!" If the escape of the prisoners did not seem sufficient for that purpose the sudden knowledge that I was still free in the palace, and mysteriously so, should prove more than adequate to accomplish that end.	10

Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	331	Certain things which are not only common knowledge to slaves but even a normal, familiar part of their lives seem to be scarcely suspected by free women.	10
5	182	To be sure, only Tula had felt the tharlarion whip, and I did not envy her her knowledge.	10
5	480	Her forbearance, I suspected, was connected with her knowledge that I might forbid, or limit, her projected chastisement, this being an embarrassment or hindrance she had no wish to accept or brook.	10
15	527	To be sure, it is common knowledge that one man's haughty, critical, demanding, sexually lethargic, frigid, bored companion may be an eager, begging servitor of another man's whims and pleasures.	10
15	634	"I am sure that is common knowledge," I said.	10
24	227	"To the best of my knowledge," he said, "I do not have any daughters, long-lost or otherwise.	10
25	1241	Most of the fellows of Port Kar have something of the ruthless lust of pirates in their view of females, coupled with some knowledge, because of a popular form of commerce in the city, of sophisticated techniques of slave handling and management.	10

Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	671	Lying as I was, of course, I probably could not, from my position, have seen what it was even had the room been as light as it had been long ago, some three months ago, on that bright afternoon when I had for the first time to my knowledge found myself under the eyes of my current captor.	10
6	169	Did we, on Earth, take our dogs and cats into our confidence? Similarly, though I did not want to feel their whips, and dreaded them terribly, the knowledge that I was subject to them, and that these men, such men, were fully ready to use them on me, and would, if I were not pleasing, was deeply mov...	10
9	488	I would have to bend all of my efforts, and all of my beauty, my charm, my grace, my knowledge, my intelligence, my tact, everything that I was, and could hope to be, to that end.	10
10	117	These things were done primarily by acute observation and differential muscle tensions, indexed to the girl's knowledge and inward states.	10
10	121	I, and, I think, my entire class, interestingly, had rejoiced in this knowledge.	10
10	123	The knowledge then that we would be unable to conceal any inauthenticity in our slavery from the masters, even if we wished to do so, was a liberating insight.	10
10	151	This was the first time I had been in his presence, to my knowledge, since my sale in Market of Semris.	10
13	403	"Not to my knowledge," I said.	10
17	303	"Not to my knowledge," said my master.	10
17	325	"Not to my knowledge, if at all," said my master.	10
20	265	Who could prove that he had been involved in these things? My own testimony, even if it were dragged out of me on the rack, would be only that of a slave; his men would presumably not betray him; and he could always claim that his tavern, the basement, and such, had been used without his knowledge.	10
34	131	You used me without my knowledge.	10

Book 23. (5 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	717	If this were not the case, then a slave, outside the knowledge of her master, might dare to be insolent to a free person.	10
12	144	"Such information was surely general knowledge".	10
23	88	"His knowledge even facilitates the matter," I said.	10
24	161	Too, I gathered that what was to be said, if secret now, would soon be common knowledge.	10
24	170	"What I tell you now," said Aemilianus, "is already common knowledge in Port Cos".	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	42	They had not managed to find him, I am pleased to report, or at least to their knowledge.	10
19	25	There is quite a difference, you see, between a bait girl who knows that hunters are about, usually concealed in a blind, whose skill will presumably protect her, and a girl with no knowledge of nearby succor.	10
19	1549	"Your experience was not conditioned by the categoricality of bondage, by the reality of it, and the slave's knowledge of that reality, by the full belonging of the slave to her master, so to speak, and her understanding, legal, and personal, and such, of that full belonging.	10

Book 25. (14 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	937	One, presumably without the knowledge of the reader or a confederate, selects one coin from several on a tray or platter, usually tarsk bits, and then, holding it tightly in his hand, concentrates on the coin.	10
8	519	Those who have witnessed the stinking ashes of such misjudgments are likely to be more patient with the craftsmanship of nature, with the slowly evolved ecologies of knowledge, of logic, of articulation, of civilization and reality".	10
9	69	A similar device, incidentally, though not one employed by Dietrich of Tarnburg, at least to my knowledge, is to recruit such forces from the dregs of a city itself, utilizing their resentment of, and their hatred for, their more successful fellow citizens to constitute a vain, suspicious and mercil...	10
11	219	To be sure, even a fellow of genuine probity, one who is unlikely to nourish, reproduce, transmit, or credit a rumor in its infancy, may find himself uncritically accepting it later on, when it becomes "common knowledge," so to speak.	10
12	259	Most girls are eager to acquire such knowledge.	10
17	21	It might be mentioned, at any rate, that many Goreans, particularly those of lower caste, and who are likely to have had access only to the "first knowledge," take things of this sort very seriously, believing they are witnesses not to tricks and illusions but to marvelous phenomena consequent upon ...	10
17	475	But these effects, of course, were rationally explicable, at least to those with the pertinent techniques and knowledge at their disposal, effects which were the fruits of unusual sciences and technologies.	10
18	437	"Not to my knowledge".	10
19	215	Marcus, of high caste, was familiar with various tenets of the second knowledge, such things as the roundness of his world, its movement in space, and the existence of other planets.	10
19	847	There is an interesting type of virgin slave, however, which might be noted, a type of slave bred for its innocence, delicacy and beauty, which is raised in isolated gynaecea without the least knowledge of the existence of men.	10
19	983	"Fully, and perfectly, to the best of my knowledge!" "As befits what you are?" "Yes, Master!" she said.	10
22	630	On the other hand, I suspect that they fear too broad a dissemination of the caste knowledge.	10
22	664	It could do its work with or without his knowledge.	10
27	916	"I am aware of the second knowledge.	10

Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	149	I had found them somehow in the piteous recesses of my needs, had drawn them forth as though from an ancient knowledge.	10
7	77	He then was aware of at least a portion of what is called the "second knowledge".	10
7	430	How, thusly, without the knowledge of the house, without the keys, the passwords, perhaps even friends within, could he hope to get me over the wall, or through the gate, past the guards? How could he even hope to ascend the wall himself, with the incurved knives at the summit? But he had said he wa...	10
9	277	How, I wondered, did those who concerned themselves with such things, to whom they were doubtless a matter of business, assess such potentialities? Did they imagine me naked, or how I might look in silk, moving sensuously, or kneeling, in chains, such things? And how did they know about my secret he...	10
13	131	Too, I would be ignorant of thousands of things which would be common knowledge to natives of this world.	10
14	1850	"It is knowledge more appropriate to slaves," I said.	10
40	26	Perhaps it was only offering its homage to the world, to the environing mystery, that immensity from which we derive, one which spawns us and then abandons us, the unfathomable, uncaring immensity, leaving us conscious in the loneliness, in the knowledge that our laughter and our tears are of no imp...	10

Book 27. (14 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	60	She now began to be instructed in what is known as the First Knowledge, which is that level of understanding common to most individuals on this world, a knowledge of myths, stories, and popular lore.	10
27	2187	The sun was now dipping into the grasslands in the west, as the sun, Tor-tu-Gor, Light-Upon-the-Home-Stone, the common star of Gor and Earth, now took its rest after its diurnal labors, as the first knowledge would have it, or, as the second knowledge would have it, as the planet rotated eastward.	10
13	165	"Surely you are apprised of at least the first knowledge?" said Laura.	10
14	34	Ellen gathered that the instructrix must once have had first-hand knowledge of what it was to be locked within such a thing, to be fastened in such an apparatus.	10
16	540	That Earth women are seldom veiled is taken by most Goreans, at least those familiar with the second knowledge, as evidence that we are slaves.	10
16	1425	Or, at least she did not think so, at least not on a conscious level! She was a bit frightened, however, and was uneasy, that her behavior may have belied her conscious intentions, that a deeper self, or a deeper need, or a deeper desire, without her knowledge, without her consent, had presented her...	10
17	26	This is in accord with the Second Knowledge, parts of which had been conveyed to Ellen in her training, that she might be a more comprehending slave.	10
17	882	On the girl's part, the knowledge that she should, in theory, ask permission to speak helps her to keep in mind that she is a slave.	10
20	212	She recalled the saying that curiosity was not becoming in a slave girl, a saying which had always seemed ironic to her, because, to the best of her knowledge, amongst such eager, bright, lively creatures, an avid curiosity was endemic.	10
25	836	Did they have to know that? Could that not be left as her secret, to be revealed only, whether she willed it or not, in the arms of a dominant male? She wondered at the knowledge of the slavers.	10
26	597	Certainly some unusually beautiful Earth woman, all unaware of such matters, and, like others, scouted without her least knowledge or suspicion, might find, upon her arrival on Gor, after her initial terror and consternation, discovering herself stripped and chained, a slave, that a rather different...	10
27	2188	There is rumored to be a third knowledge, as well, but it seems that this is reserved to those whom the men of this world commonly speak of in hushed tones, the Priest-Kings of Gor.	10
28	49	Let us also suppose that this woman is later brought to Gor, as a slave presumably, as she is a female, either with or without his knowledge.	10
30	317	The value of the whip, you see, is not so much in its being used, as in the slave's knowledge that it can be used and, under certain circumstances, will be used.	10

Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	528	Too, it might be noted that some Gorean men, apprised of what is termed the "Second Knowledge," have some understanding of what is done to men on Earth and how they are commonly treated.	10
10	45	"And this knowledge," said Peisistratus, "encourages our girls in the pleasure cylinder to be muchly concerned to be found pleasing to the masters".	10
24	210	"You will find the experience interesting," he said, "the constricting, enwrapped coils tightened on your body, the specialness of the consequent sensations, they enveloping you, the feeling of being utterly helpless, the knowledge that you are then totally at another's mercy, and such".	10
60	20	"It is common knowledge," said Flavion.	10
64	83	This was now common knowledge in the camp, given the freeing of the Lady Bina, the attempt on the life of Lord Grendel, his flight, and such.	10
64	192	"Do not concern yourself with Flavion's knowledge," said Lord Grendel.	10
67	108	The thought crossed his mind of the mad shipwright, Tersites, filled with his dream of a ship so sturdy and mighty that it might see what lay on the far side of Thassa, to go so far that no mariner who had attained only to the first knowledge would dare to ply one of its oars, for fear of plunging o...	10
73	190	Let her obtain this information from the actions of diverse, seemingly unconcerned, casual intermediaries, perhaps from guards, attendants, even passersby, in the vicinity of the cages, bit by bit, from, say, a word dropped here and there, to which she, in her cage, desperate for knowledge, would be...	10
79	172	But that was not to be wondered at, for it is common knowledge that from barbarian shores are not unoften harvested the finest of slaves.	10
80	108	We recognize the dangers of science, and how it may be misused, and so we reserve its knowledge and techniques to a carefully chosen few".	10

Book 29. (13 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	10	Too, they lurk, like wolves, muchly concealed, amongst the scattered stones, some small, many mighty, of what, on Earth, is commonly referred to as the asteroid belt, on Gor, by those familiar with the Second Knowledge, as the reefs of space.	10
2	116	The most common exotic is the virgin slave who has been raised without the knowledge that men exist.	10
4	71	As indicated earlier, I was reasonably sure that neither Constantina nor Pertinax were harboring any surreptitious knowledge of murders recently wrought.	10
5	550	It was by then common knowledge how she had been slave, and in what fashion she had come into the keeping of Samos.	10
7	358	The life of the slave, on the other hand, is essentially a sexual life; sexuality irradiates her entire existence; it does not begin and end with a caress; in the collar she knows she is essentially a sexual creature, a slave, at the master's bidding, and this knowledge imbues her entire life with a...	10
8	178	I did not know if Tajima was familiar with the Second Knowledge, or only the First, or, indeed, even if these distinctions were appropriate in his case.	10
19	99	Whereas he held no office to my knowledge, nor any instituted authority, as far as I knew, I felt the inquiry, the question, was appropriate.	10
24	136	Many Goreans, particularly those limited to the First Knowledge, have "use names" to conceal their real names, for fear the real names might somehow be used against them, perhaps in spells.	10
25	195	This theory, espoused by many privy only to the First Knowledge, was dismissed by mariners, for it would require a constant current to the west which did not exist.	10
25	204	On the other hand, Goreans with access to the Second Knowledge, recognized the sphericity of Gor, the viability of the antipodes, the action of gravity, and such.	10
25	205	A mystery did remain, of course, to the west, even for those admitted to the Second Knowledge, usually those of the higher castes.	10
26	248	"I have the Second Knowledge.	10
26	254	"The matter became public knowledge shortly after the rising of the people, the return of Marlenus," he said.	10

Book 30. (14 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	321	I have attained to the Second Knowledge, but this made little sense to me.	10
3	982	He then ruthlessly demanded from me information upon information, information which would be common knowledge to anyone from Brundisium, things as obvious as to where lay her Street of Coins, her largest markets, how many gates she had, and such.	10
5	165	I knew the secret of Seremides, but here that knowledge was of little consequence, other than to place my life in jeopardy.	10
7	185	Andronicus was no stranger to the Second Knowledge.	10
11	5	And how might one expect to see a sail this far at sea, for we had come farther than any vessel had formerly come, at least to our knowledge.	10
11	7	It was only that none, at least to our knowledge, had returned.	10
15	211	Ship slaves, in any event, aside from my personal knowledge of the slave, are often starved for attention, that of masters.	10
19	28	An interesting form of white-silker is the bred slave, raised in the sheltered gardens and housings of a gynaeceum, who is raised with no knowledge of men, until, say, unhooded, say, on an auction block, chained to a man's slave ring, cast amidst the tables of feasting warriors, or such.	10
20	381	"Not to my knowledge," I said.	10
33	72	"I am familiar with the second knowledge," I said.	10
33	144	"You are the first who has done so, on this world!" "He is privy to the second knowledge," said the stranger.	10
37	1220	I was in what is called a department, for in my old world knowledge is often put in departments, its wholeness, doubtless of necessity, being ignored or neglected.	10
37	1233	I had spent several years in the household of my teacher, who would accept no pay, because, for our caste, knowledge is priceless.	10
37	1237	"There are so many," I asked, "who hunger so for knowledge, and so avidly seek it?" "Not at all," she said.	10

Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	33	If you have attained, on the other hand, to the Second Knowledge, you understand it is alleged to be a different world, one of several orbiting Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-Home-Stone, but, even so, many of you, even with the Second Knowledge, remain skeptical, regarding it as no more than a myth or f...	10
43	68	Did he not have access to the Second Knowledge? Perhaps he was indeed a Metal Worker, one of a lower caste, and had attained only to the First Knowledge.	10
4	182	The shame of this expulsion would be general knowledge, and certain of our sisters, I thought I knew which ones, Nora, and others, would see to it that the cause of our expulsion would be well publicized.	10
4	411	"People sometimes need their skills and knowledge, even desperately.	10
7	701	My knowledge of free women was limited almost entirely to the hints, and gossip, of instructresses, which I had overheard.	10
8	215	Four had supposedly attained to the "Second Knowledge," whatever that was.	10
8	1015	I supposed that was not common knowledge.	10
11	272	"Not to my knowledge," said Antiope.	10
43	69	It is said there is a Third Knowledge, but that is reserved to Priest-Kings.	10
49	61	The point of this was to make available to him the biological science of the steel-world that, by its knowledge of, and manipulation of, the hereditary coils, tissue might be regenerated.	10

Book 32. (18 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	22	Why does the chain lure me? Why does the sight of the whip, and the knowledge that it may be used upon me, thrill me? I wonder if my feelings are unique.	10
14	487	"You are apprised, I would suppose, of the Second Knowledge," he said.	10
19	79	Most Goreans, I was sure, certainly those of the First Knowledge, knew little of forbidden weapons.	10
20	95	Some of the girls, however, particularly those of the First Knowledge, deemed lightning, at least upon occasion, the cast, fiery missile of angered Priest-Kings, and its successor, thunder, as proclaiming, for all to understand, the fact of its terrible passage.	10
21	121	From my time on the world Earth, and from the voyages I had made, I was no stranger to a variety of interesting devices seldom found on Gor, devices of communication, and record keeping, and such, devices the nature of which was unknown to most Goreans, even to those who had attained to the Second K...	10
23	65	And there were other textures, and feelings, too, the knowledge that one is owned, and must obey, and the realization that one will be punished if one is not satisfactory, and little things, like the feel of wood on one's knees as one knelt before the free, the sense of a strap cinched tight on one'...	10
26	135	"No," he said, "their knowledge of Shipcamp is imperfect, speculative".	10
41	350	Did his neglect of me in the camp seem too studied? Why was he here? How was it that he, who had first looked upon me, on a far world, and had looked upon me as a man looks upon a slave, the first time to my knowledge that I had been so looked upon, so obviously, and had doubtless figured in my sele...	10
43	329	"They possess knowledge," said a man.	10
43	402	The question is one of knowledge, whoever it is borne by, free or slave.	10
43	403	The knowledge they bear is their doom".	10
51	108	"Also," he said, "you know a great deal, which knowledge is a dangerous burden".	10
52	424	"The knowledge we bear is dangerous," said Axel.	10
53	50	"I bore the burden of knowledge," he said, "of knowing fearful and important things, though I did not fully understand them.	10
53	51	To protect this knowledge, and prevent its revelation, men would kill.	10
53	52	Few are permitted to bear this knowledge, and, I fear, few for long.	10
53	65	You could now cry out your knowledge to all the world, with impunity".	10
53	71	Your knowledge makes no difference now".	10

Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	15	The pickets, outpost guards, sentries, and such, had been withdrawn, allegedly on the orders of Lord Temmu, which orders, apparently, had been fabricated, but had appeared authentic, given appropriate seals, and a knowledge of passwords, of signals and countersignals.	10
19	200	Indeed I had sometimes wondered if she had been, perhaps over generations, given the technology of Priest-Kings, their foresight and their knowledge of the world, bred for me.	10
24	54	"It seems a pity to relieve him of his post for so small an indiscretion, particularly in the light of his experience, knowledge, and diligence".	10
25	66	And I could conceive of only two, to my knowledge, who would be able to do so, Tajima and Pertinax.	10
32	34	"Doubtless we outnumber them, even with losses!" I had, of course, no knowledge of what might be the case outside the inn, but it was brought home to me, forcibly, the common military strategy of confusing one's enemies as to the nature and quantity of one's strength.	10
47	173	"To the best of my knowledge," said Lord Yamada, "no subject, at any time in the islands, has survived this test".	10
61	55	To the best of my knowledge, Lord Temmu could not have brought four thousand men south, even with deserters and recruits, let alone five thousand.	10

Book 34. (24 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
62	82	It might be mentioned that there is no perfectly clear distinction between the "knowledges," as much in the "First Knowledge" is, as would be supposed, included in the "Second Knowledge".	10
62	83	The "Second Knowledge," in a sense, "goes beyond" the "First Knowledge".	10
1	405	I wondered if I were a slave, already, without my knowledge.	10
9	34	Thus, despite the fact that I had not behaved other than would have any other young woman of Earth in the circumstances, I am sure, I was, without my knowledge, added to a list in preparation, a slave list.	10
11	21	How it pleases a man to have a slave at his feet, and how it pleases a slave to be at the feet of a master! I used such occasions to deepen and broaden my knowledge of Gor, of its castes, customs, terrains and cities, governances, Ubarates, clans, beliefs, plants, fruits and vegetables, trees and fl...	10
14	43	One of the males, a pleasant, handsome fellow, with ringed fingers, in a golden robe, which betokened no caste to my knowledge, was not paired with any of the free women.	10
14	55	And what laws would deny to a host a right to entertain his friends in his own home? As I mentioned, one of the males, the handsome fellow with ringed fingers, he in the golden robe, which betokened no caste to my knowledge, was not paired with one of the free women.	10
16	105	Why are you not, amongst the porticoes and colonnades, chatting and gossiping with your collar sisters, seeking news, a word dropped in the tiers of the Central Cylinder becoming common knowledge by nightfall, not comparing collars and masters, not complaining about the recent quality of the tunic c...	10
23	117	"I have never, to my knowledge, seen him," he said.	10
26	213	Such attentions, coupled with the very clear knowledge that one is a property, and may be bought and sold, gives one a sense of self very different from that likely to be entertained by the free woman, protected by her robes and dignity.	10
37	39	"It is common knowledge," I said, "that Decius Albus will not buy a cheap slave, any who might go appropriately for less than eight silver tarsks".	10
42	187	The most likely faction opposed to Lord Arcesilaus would be that of the deposed Lord Agamemnon, but his faction is inert as of late, indeed, perhaps dissolved, and, to the best of our knowledge, Lord Agamemnon, lacking a body, is little to be feared.	10
44	91	It is not my life they want, but my claws, my intelligence, my knowledge, my connections, my relationships, my honor".	10
45	191	If there were free women present, the decision as to the feeding of the slaves would have been left to them, in deference to their status, which is far higher than that of free women on my former world, Earth, sometimes referred to by Goreans privy to the second knowledge as the Slave World.	10
57	168	There are a thousand ways in which a girl's knowledge of her bondage may be forced into every cell of her body.	10
61	655	Surely it had been empty, as had been intended, upon our arrival at the feast, a situation that had been confirmed by suspicious guards, but it had been arranged, clearly, certainly not with my knowledge, for I was a slave, that the Lady Bina and Eve would make their way, in another wagon, to the sc...	10
62	73	These misunderstandings commonly occur with Goreans who have been limited to the "First Knowledge," as it is called.	10
62	74	There is a "Second Knowledge," to which intellectuals, and the higher castes, have access.	10
62	75	For example, many Goreans limited to the "First Knowledge" do not realize their world is one of many, and think that "Earth," of which they have heard, and from which many barbarian slaves are obtained, is merely a remote country or land falling outside "known Gor".	10
62	77	One might add that it is speculated that there is also a "Third Knowledge," which is limited to Priest-Kings.	10
62	84	Also, it should be noted that it is not unprecedented for an individual of one of the lower castes to be apprised of the "Second Knowledge".	10
62	85	There is nothing secret, or, at least, altogether secret, about the Second Knowledge.	10
62	86	On the other hand, this seems not to be the case with the "Third Knowledge," that attributed to Priest-Kings.	10
62	87	Indeed, many of the "Laws of the Priest-Kings" seem intended to discourage humans from inquiring into certain forms of knowledge, for example, those leading to technologies by means of which, eventually, after a cascade of steps, a planet might be rendered unlivable, even shattered and destroyed.	10

Book 35. (19 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	16	My former world is commonly referred to by Gorean men, those apprised of the Second Knowledge, as "the slave world," presumably because women such as I are frequently brought here for their markets.	10
1	17	Those limited to the First Knowledge think of "Earth" as a distant, barbarous land.	10
1	56	To be sure, Goreans apprised of the Second Knowledge, those better informed, aware, for example, that Earth and Gor are planets orbiting a common star, tend to regard Earth as a barbarous planet.	10
1	107	I was doubtless scouted, assessed, considered, and decided upon without my knowledge, and then my acquisition was arranged.	10
1	108	Perhaps you, too, have been noticed; perhaps you are, even now, without your knowledge, being scouted, assessed, considered.	10
1	115	In this sense, as you go about your day, aware of nothing, thinking of nothing, shopping, chatting, dining, dating, and such, you may already, without your knowledge, be a slave.	10
11	600	"It was you, then," I said, "who so despised me, who held me in such contempt, that you would do such a thing to me, you, who, by your will, without my least consent or knowledge, at your pleasure, called me to the attention of masters and dealers, you who are responsible for this utter, radical tra...	10
13	278	They, given their background and knowledge, would be quick of apprehension.	10
24	185	Language and knowledge, accents and information, may also mark a barbarian.	10
35	207	"To the best of my knowledge," I said.	10
36	50	Certainly I had not seen him, at least not to my knowledge.	10
36	110	I had never seen a larl or sleen, but I had acquired a vicarious knowledge of such animals, and others, from various chain sisters, overheard conversations in the tavern, and such.	10
37	29	"Not to my knowledge," I said.	10
38	98	Knowledge is often more precious than gold, information more valuable than jewels.	10
38	120	I had never, personally, seen him, at least to my knowledge.	10
40	135	Yet, how can we help it? As is common knowledge, kajirae are amongst the most inquisitive of beasts.	10
40	211	"It is common knowledge in the holding.	10
40	264	Too, I was annoyed that my presence had apparently not been as unobtrusive as I had thought, and that the information I had obtained, congratulating myself on my subtlety and cleverness, had been public knowledge, at least within the holding.	10
46	126	Too, what secret knowledge, or such, could she have now that would be relevant to the designs of Pa-Kur? Was she not now worthless to him, save perhaps as collar meat? Surely, in any market, he could buy kajirae who might do quite as well as Dorna, squirming, moaning, whimpering, thrashing, gasping,...	10

Book 36. (11 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	18	"How can there be a Second Knowledge?" "Many who are limited to the First Knowledge," said Sakim, "do not even know there is a Second Knowledge".	10
35	17	"Knowledge is knowledge," said Aktis.	10
6	190	"Master is apprised of the Second Knowledge?" she asked.	10
7	96	I took the remark, as it was said, to be common knowledge, at least in Sybaris.	10
11	212	If I did prosecute such an inquiry, Glaukos could merely deny knowledge of the map, and even affect a concern that it might be missing.	10
18	73	That was not a matter of myth, at least to those possessed of the Second Knowledge, but of distant, remote fact, fact dating back to what must have been fearful times.	10
21	14	A casual remark at a private supper may become common knowledge by the next day.	10
29	146	One reason Gorean men, apprised of the Second Knowledge, commonly regard the females of Earth as slaves is the thoughtlessness with which they commonly bare their features.	10
35	16	"Such things are clear in the Second Knowledge," said Sakim, who had once been a captain.	10
35	19	"And it is said," said Clitus, "that there is a Third Knowledge, known only to Priest-Kings".	10
60	152	Have you not guessed that some knowledge is less safely grasped than an ost?" "Are you sure," I asked, "that the harbor guard has been withdrawn?" "Yes," said Ctesippus.	10