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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 88 The Lower Castes, incidentally, commonly believe that the names of the High Castes are actually use-names and that the High Castes conceal their real names.
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4 80 The Goreans have a habit of not revealing names easily.
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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.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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18 55 Then I began to encourage them to speak to one another, and to call one another by their names, and their cities, and though there were men of different cities there, they shared the same chain and trough, and they accepted one another.
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21 269 On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names.
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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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12 102 In effect these men had no names, but were simply known as Slave A and Slave B.
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Book 4. (10 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 76 The year names are kept in living memory by the Year Keepers, some of whom can recall the names of several thousand consecutive years.
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2 69 It was said a youth of the Wagon Peoples was taught the bow, the quiva and the lance before their parents would consent to give him a name, for names are precious among the Wagon Peoples, as among Goreans in general, and they are not to be wasted on someone who is likely to die, one who cannot well ...
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2 75 The years, incidentally, are not numbered by the Wagon Peoples, but given names, toward their end, based on something or other which has occurred to distinguish the year.
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2 77 The Wagon Peoples do not trust important matters, such as year names, to paper or parchment, subject to theft, insect and rodent damage, deterioration, etc.
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8 239 He was called Harold, which is not a Tuchuk name, nor a name used among the Wagon Peoples, though it is similar to some of the Kassar names.
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10 291 The judges were now calling names, and girls, both of the Wagon Peoples and of Turia, were coming forward.
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13 177 Clerks, with parchment scrolls, were circulating among the altars, presumably, I would guess, noting the names of haruspexes, their peoples, and their findings.
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13 201 "E-liz-a-beth-card-vella" he would try to say, adding the "a" sound because it is a common ending of feminine names on Gor.
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25 759 "Argue," I suggested, "explain—speak names".
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28 58 These were year names—which would be remembered by the Year Keepers, whose memories knew the names of thousands of consecutive years.
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Book 5. (6 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 111 Indeed, some, particularly those of low caste, even have use names, concealing their true names, lest they be discovered by enemies and used to conjure spells against them.
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5 612 Month names differ, unfortunately, from city to city, but, among the civilized cities, there are four months, associated with the equinoxes and solstices, and the great fairs at the Sardar, which do have common names, the months of En'Kara, or En'Kara-Lar-Torvis; En'Var, or En'var-Lar-Torvis; Se'Kar...
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2 110 Moreover, Goreans are extremely sensitive about names, and who may speak them.
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2 112 Similarly, slaves, on the whole, do not address free men by their names.
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5 229 They are regarded as being above names, much as men do not think to give a name to the universe as a whole.
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15 144 Their names were Relius and Ho-Sorl.
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Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

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4 146 "Ah, yes, the collectors of the taxes, in the names of various Ubars, who may or may not have a current ascendancy in the city".
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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7 257 These two names are, in sound at least, German names.
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7 261 Many Gorean names are apparently of Earth origin.
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17 39 About the throats of the girls were locked new collars, again of inflexible steel, but now those of huntsmen, vine engraved and bearing the names of their masters.
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17 112 I sometimes thought of many of the girls I had known on Earth, whose names I will omit, lest somehow, sometime, somewhere, they read these pages, who would surely look well, stripped and collared, kneeling before masters, their knees perforce widely spread, their tiny, lovely wrists confined behind ...
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Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 642 "What are your names?" I asked.
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2 754 "You have no names," I told them, "for you are slaves".
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Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 389 "That she might not care for you and lure you from the service of those whose names we shall not now speak".
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6 168 Sometimes bondmaids are given descriptive names.
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16 63 He had been taught some rune signs as a boy, that he could understand important stones, for in these stones were the names of mighty men and songs of their deeds, but it had not been expected of him that he would be in any sense a fluent reader.
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Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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12 164 "Each," said she, "all of them have such names, the names of girls".
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2 532 Names are often used by auctioneers.
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10 275 "The names of leaders," said Hassan, "do not figure in the war cries of Aretai, nor of most tribes.
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12 162 "It pleases the mistress," said she, "to give us what names she pleases".
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13 411 A common punishment for a slave girl of Gorean origin is to give her an Earth-girl name, Jane, Audrey, Margaret, such names.
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Book 11. (10 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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14 169 Too, I had met several who, though Gorean, bore the names of Earth girls; such names, on Gor, I knew, are regarded as excellent names for slaves.
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7 633 Many Earth-girl names, incidentally, on Gor, are regarded as slave names.
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5 96 I knew the names of many articles.
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6 216 He then, with his peasant's humor, suggested two names, both descriptive, both embarrassing.
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6 221 Yet I knew that if I were given either of those intimate, obscene names, I would have to wear it.
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7 625 Many Gorean names, as words in the Gorean language, apparently have an Earth origin.
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7 1278 "Barbarians have such complicated names," he said.
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7 1279 "It is two names, Master," I said.
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7 1283 "I do not like those names," he said.
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7 1286 I supposed such names did sound unfamiliar, and barbarous, to a Gorean ear.
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Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 641 Earth-girl names, incidentally, are thought of on Gor as slave names.
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3 643 That Earth-girl names are thought of on Gor as slave names is an indication of the regard in which Gorean men hold Earth girls.
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12 286 Red hunters, though they are reticent to speak their own names, have little reservation about speaking the names of others.
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9 271 "What are your names?" asked my lovely captor.
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9 274 "I scarcely think," said my captor, "that those names would have been given to you by an Indian".
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12 292 The names of the red hunters, incidentally, have meaning, but, generally, I content myself with reporting the name in their own language.
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12 295 More strictly, their names were 'Pudjortok' and 'Kakidlarnerk'.
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12 296 However, since these names, respectively, would be 'Thimble' and 'Thistle', and Imnak often referred to them in Gorean as "Thimble" and 'Thistle" I have felt it would be acceptable to use those latter expressions, they being simpler from the point of view of one who does not natively speak the tongu...
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12 309 Our names do not go away when we speak them".
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21 246 "It is a long time since those of Earth recollected the many names of nature".
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38 26 Songs come from me now, telling me their names and stories.
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Book 13. (18 results) Explorers of Gor

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27 232 Feminine first names of Earth are often used on Gor as slave names.
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27 237 It is thus natural that their original names be regarded as the names of slaves.
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34 803 Their names are simply given to them, as the names of animals.
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34 814 For example, many women of Earth might be astonished to learn that their names, which they may regard as simple or common, names such as 'Jane' or 'Alice', are found extremely beautiful to the Gorean ear.
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51 103 They will bear, too, various endorsements, names of owner, names given to her, and so on.
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12 201 "Many agents use code names," said Shaba.
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27 219 "I have had many names".
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27 223 "That is two names, is it not?" I asked.
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32 1017 "Perhaps, here and there, men will form themselves into small communities, where the names of such things as courage, discipline, and responsibility may be occasionally recollected, communities which, in their small way, might be worthy of Home Stones.
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34 800 The first and other names, however, tend to remain constant.
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34 806 The names a slave wears, of course, are functions of the master's pleasure.
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34 809 Some masters have favorite names for girls.
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34 811 Most girls, of course, are given beautiful and exciting slave names, for the masters wish the girl, too, to be beautiful and exciting.
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34 813 What names count as being beautiful and exciting, of course, is partly a cultural matter.
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34 816 Further, as I may have mentioned, many Earth-girl names are found extremely provocative to the Gorean male.
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34 818 Such names may suggest to him, usually correctly, that their lovely bearer is going to be an unusually helpless and delicious slave.
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34 820 Needless to say, a slave girl, as she changes collars, may change names.
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34 821 Most girls, in passing from the hands of one master into those of another, will have had various names.
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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11 97 I had heard that Earth-girl names were often used as slave names on Gor, often being given to the lowest, and the most exciting and sensuous of slaves.
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21 92 Such names, as I have mentioned, are often used as slave names on Gor.
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21 367 Such names, as I have mentioned, are often used as slave names on Gor.
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2 102 "Later you will be called only by those names by which masters please".
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3 67 "Are you holding, here," I asked, "an Earth girl named Beverly Henderson?" "Slaves have no names," she said, "unless it pleases the masters to name them".
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11 78 Slaves have no names in their own right.
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21 91 Neither Pamela nor Bonnie, incidentally, were Earth girls, though they wore Earth-girl names.
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21 243 They often change names and masters.
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21 366 Neither Pamela nor Bonnie, as I have mentioned, were Earth girls, though they both wore Earth-girl names.
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 78 The four districts of the city, as might be supposed, retain the names of the original towns.
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11 162 Slaves in their own right have no names.
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24 254 Not unoften Gorean girls, particularly if they are to be consigned to a low slavery, are given such names.
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24 432 "I have had various Masters, and various names.
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31 53 One girl, more than any others, appeared in my own dreams, she who had once been Miss Beverly Henderson, though she now appeared generally in my dreams not as the lovely, free Earth girl, Miss Henderson, but, under a variety of names, as a Gorean slave girl.
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

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20 1786 Even the Gorean child is likely to know the names and natures of most of the flora and fauna found in his environment.
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20 1974 The name she is given, of course, is a function of the will of the master, and names may be changed, as he pleases.
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21 314 I used the English expressions for these names, as there are no precisely equivalent Gorean expressions for them.
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21 316 "But such names are perhaps better reserved for our occasional private sport," I mused.
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21 339 "I am rather fond of Earth-girl names for slaves," I said.
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21 353 "There are many fine Earth-girl names," I said.
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21 357 "Name me!" "'Tracy' and 'Stephanie', too," I said, "are lovely names".
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Book 17. (12 results) Savages of Gor

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14 830 Red masters commonly give such names to their white slaves, trivial names that seem fitting for slaves.
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1 160 Slaves, no more than other animals, do not have names in their own right.
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1 603 This is different, it should be noted, with the names of the two creatures, 'Kog' and 'Sardak'.
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1 604 These names were given in Gorean phonemes, not in the phonemes of the creatures' own language.
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1 605 In this case, of course, this made it clear that these two names, at least, had been programmed into the machine.
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1 607 Presumably Samos and I could not have pronounced the actual names of the creatures.
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1 608 'Kog' and 'Sardak', however, doubtless correlated in some fashion, given some type of phonemic transcription found acceptable by the creatures, with their actual names.
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3 123 "Have they names?" I asked the merchant.
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13 243 "Such names are not unusual in the social stratum which once was mine," she said.
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14 116 I knew one of his names among the red savages was Wopeton, which means Trader, or Merchant.
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14 399 This was another of the names by which Grunt was known in the Barrens.
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19 224 "Female slaves are often given names such as Wasna, Grease, or Cespu, Scab or Wart, until they prove themselves sufficiently pleasing to have earned a better.
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Book 18. (18 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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48 21 "Your former names, 'Bloketu' and 'Iwoso'," said Hci, "are now put on you as slave names".
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1 173 The origins of these names are not always clear.
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1 174 It seems probable that the Little-Stones and the Sand bands may have had their names from geographical features, perhaps those adjacent to riverside encampments.
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1 180 Sometimes, as I suspect was the case with the Napoktan, these names may owe their origin to the idiosyncrasies of given leaders, to unique historical events or perhaps, even, to dreams.
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12 71 "They have no names".
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22 288 In the camp he had been known by the names of Hala and Owopte.
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25 39 "Do you know their names?" asked Hci.
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26 108 As is often the case with the names of the red savages they do not translate simply and directly into a different language.
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32 27 "Such things have names?" asked Cuwignaka.
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33 398 "It is probably a good idea for animals like you to be given names," I said.
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33 405 "What do those names mean?" she asked.
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33 412 "Let us save those names," said Cuwignaka.
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33 418 "Is it all right with you," I asked the girl, "if we save those names?" "Yes, Master," she laughed.
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33 436 Animals must wear whatever names are given to them.
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41 78 There are technical names for them.
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50 153 Among the Kaiila such names as Cespu and Cesli are not uncommon for slaves.
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54 188 Their names were Witantanka and Akamda.
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54 318 The red savages, themselves, incidentally, have their own names for the new, small community.
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Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

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18 48 Earth-girl names, too, incidentally, are commonly used as slave names on Gor, such as Jean, Joan, Priscilla, Sally, Deborah, Lois, Sandra and Stacey.
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24 31 On Gor Earth-girl names are commonly used as slave names.
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33 419 Indeed, many sleen, whereas they will respond to their own names, do not even know the names of their masters.
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3 787 Animals do not have names, except as their masters might choose to name them.
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6 365 How few children of Earth, I thought, are taught the names and kinds of the trees and shrubs, the plants, the insects and birds, which surround them constantly.
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13 59 "And putting aside such former names and worlds," said Miles, "as whom do you know her here?" Susan began to tremble.
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16 291 "Indeed, it is one of the names popular with the masters for unusually juicy and helpless slaves".
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18 47 I wondered if, in some sense, I was a "Lita," or, say, a "Tuka," or a "Lana," other common names for slaves on Gor.
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30 220 Some of these streets, like many streets in Gorean cities, did not even have regular names.
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30 223 Irritatingly enough the same street is sometimes known by different names to different people.
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30 226 Sometimes incidents seem to give names to streets as well, such as "Fire Street," "Flood Street," "the street of the Six Raped Slaves," and so on.
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36 554 Such names, like collars, are worn whether the slave wishes them or not.
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36 555 Some masters think of such names as being along the lines of verbal leashes, the utterance of the name, like the sudden tug of a leash, immediately calling the slave's attention to the master and his wishes.
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Book 20. (16 results) Players of Gor

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4 280 The commonness of names is even more acute with slave names.
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4 283 Earth-girl names, incidentally, as is well known, are often used on Gor as slave names.
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21 86 On one paper was a numbered list of names, names of well-known Kaissa players.
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1 27 In some of these versions, the names of the pieces differ, and, in some, even more alarmingly, their nature and power.
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1 1085 To be sure, names may be put on slaves and taken off them on a master's whim.
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2 1355 "Under those names I have gone hungry for years," she said.
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4 278 There are many common names on Gor, as, I suppose, in most civilizations.
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4 281 For example, common slave names on Gor are Tuka, Lana, and Lita.
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4 282 There are probably hundreds of girls on Gor answering to those names, and others, almost as familiar, which are similarly luscious.
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16 300 "What were the names of the escaped slaves?" asked Petrucchio of Chino and Lecchio.
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21 88 On another paper there was what purported to be a list of tournament cities, and on another a list of names, of individuals supposedly noted for their craftsmanship in the skill and design of Kaissa boards and pieces.
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22 111 "Even though your names may be cleared," I said, "I do not think I would revisit Brundisium in the near future".
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22 259 "Were there names in the papers?" I asked.
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22 277 "Few of their names occur explicitly in the papers.
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22 279 "Some names of traitors do occur in the documents?" I said.
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22 281 "The names of two traitors occur there".
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Book 21. (13 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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25 376 Most often, however, the Earth girls are given Gorean names, and usually Gorean slave names.
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25 650 Better that a thousand times than names such as 'Tula' and 'Tuka', the names of slaves, of soft, perfumed girls who must helplessly serve in all things!" The hostess removed a marking stick from her pouch and removed the card from the cage frame.
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1 289 Other such names are 'Aytul', 'Benek', 'Emine', 'Faize', 'Mine', 'Yasemine' and 'Yasine'.
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13 150 Doubtless there were lists on which their names appeared, each name correlated for convenience with a given number.
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13 218 In a time, of course, you may receive new names.
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13 223 You may not inquire as to the former names of others nor reveal to them, even if they should ask, your own.
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15 718 To be sure, such names are common, though more in the west.
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23 154 Notes, it seemed, and names, were being taken.
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25 369 Often, of course, Earth-girl names are given to Gorean female slaves.
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25 370 They are almost uniformly regarded as suitable slave names.
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25 375 When more than one Earth girl is in the same lot, their names may be switched, the name 'Audrey', for example, being given to the former Karen, and the name 'Karen' now being given to the former Audrey.
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25 649 "They are such slave names! Mock me, if you will, with a name such as 'Chelto'.
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28 23 "The other girl had a name, or thought she did," she said, "the false girl, that assumed identity, she who the disguised, hiding slave was pretending to be, but that name was taken from her, stripped away like her clothing, leaving behind only the real girl, the depth woman, the basic animal, the sl...
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Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

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17 372 Names such as Tula and Tuka are sometimes used for a brace of female slaves, as the names go well together.
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3 732 "I do not understand such names," I said.
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3 733 They did not even sound like the names of men of Earth! "I suppose they are unfamiliar to you," he said.
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5 59 Similarly, another indication of our status here is that, occasionally, one of our names, an Earth-girl name, would be bestowed on a girl of this world, as a punishment, usually a temporary one, indicating that she was now to be regarded as one of the lowest of the low.
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11 80 Such names are sometimes given to Gorean girls, sometimes to inform them, to their horror, that they are now to be as low and succulent, and helpless, and luscious, as Earth females in Gorean bondage.
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11 177 I would then, when the order was rescinded, be able to call the girls, with the exception of the "first girl," by their own names.
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12 37 "In the baths," he said, "I have seen the names of slaves and taverns scrawled on the walls".
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12 54 "The fellow who wrote the names up was surely mistaken," she said, angrily.
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17 368 Tula and Tuka are extremely common slave names on Gor.
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17 374 Such names, too, of course, may be used individually, and often are.
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Book 23. (23 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 836 Names, too, of course, may be used to humble and punish a woman, and such names, humbling names, and punishing names, are as much real names as the most beautiful of names.
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11 18 Some girls, too, coming to understand the sensuous connotations of their names on Gor come to regard them then no longer as common, or plain, names, but, like the Goreans, as thrilling, beautiful names, and come to revel in them, and try to live up to them, as superb slaves.
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1 388 It suggested the sorts of names not uncommon in many of the Vosk towns, however, names reflecting the cultural mixtures of many such places, reflecting influences as diverse as those of the island ubarates, such as Cos and Tyros, on one hand, and those of southern cities, such as Venna and Ar on the...
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11 16 Goreans sometimes give Earth-girl names to Gorean girls, as they think of them as excellent slave names.
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11 17 To a Gorean ear names such as 'Jean' or 'Joan' have an exotic flavor, and are regarded as fit names for slaves brought in from such far-off, mysterious places as "Tennessee" or "Oregon".
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20 45 But then one hears many names, thousands of names, here and there.
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21 935 "I am only a slave, who has been given the name 'Claudia'!" Both names now, of course, were slave names.
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21 945 It might be mentioned in passing that Earth-girl names, June, Jane, Lois, Phyllis, and such, are popular Gorean slave names.
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21 1398 I supposed that Aemilianus might think that Cosian names might be better for slaves, whereas Calliodorus might tend to approve more of names more typical of the south, say, those of Venna or Ar.
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21 1400 Many Goreans, incidentally, as is well known, regard Earth-girl names as slave names.
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24 950 Certain names on Gor tend to be used almost exclusively as slave names, such as Dina, Lita, Lana, Tafa, Tela, Tula, and so on.
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24 952 Interestingly, as I have occasionally mentioned, Earth-girl names are usually regarded on Gor as being slave names.
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3 162 Many folks coming through here, I gathered, did not identify themselves, or used false names.
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8 765 It was there that several sets of chains had enjoyed the possession of fair occupants, whose names, as I had learned in the paga room from the Lady Temione, were Rimice, Klio and Liomache, all from Cos, Elene, from Tyros, and Amina, a citizeness of Venna.
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11 19 To be sure, they know they wear them now only as slave names, theirs only by the will of a master.
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21 938 Names may be changed, of course, at the master's whim.
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21 940 Some names are given based on physical or psychological characteristics.
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21 941 Usually the names are ones that appeal to the master.
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21 1399 I myself thought there was much to be said for both, and, indeed, for many other sorts of names, as well.
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24 563 '" As he said these names, he reached out, and, in turn, Publia first, flicked each of them with the whip.
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24 951 Perhaps because of the commonness and simplicity of such names, as well as their exciting beauty, many girls respond quite well to them.
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24 967 "I have worn many names, Master," she said.
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24 1008 "Such names," he said, "are not so common east on the river".
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Book 24. (20 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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37 314 In a sense, of course, all female names are slave names, being the names of slaves.
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1 145 Free women, it might be noted, in passing, however, usually object to such names for slaves, as it seems, in their view, that such lovely names should be reserved for those of their own status.
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1 148 My own preference in these matters is to favor, on the whole, like most Goreans, simpler, shorter names for slaves, names which, like the collar, help to remind them that they are slaves.
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1 149 Such names seem more appropriate for them, and, interestingly, the slaves themselves often favor such names.
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1 698 The names 'Susan' and 'Jane' are Earth-girl names, but this did not mean that these girls had to be Earth girls.
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1 699 Earth-girl names are commonly used on Gor as slave names.
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9 112 Such names, 'Ina', 'Ita', 'Tuka', 'Tula', 'Dina', 'Lita', and such, as suggested earlier, are common slave names.
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9 114 Earth-girl names, such as 'Shirley', 'Linda', 'Jane', and such, as I have suggested earlier, are also commonly used as slave names.
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37 311 "You have put their former free-woman names on them as slave names," I noted.
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37 317 With others, it is amusing to have them answering to their old names, but now merely as slaves to slave names.
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1 137 Most slave names, of course, are not as long as 'Temione', with its four syllables, with its major accent on the second syllable.
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1 141 I thought it an excellent name for her, and I have no objection whatsoever to slaves bearing names which are attractive, sophisticated, gracious and beautiful.
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1 147 To be sure, in one sense the names are different, as the free woman has the name in her own right as a legal person and the slave has the name in virtue of her master's right, to put it on her if he pleases, like an ankle ring or collar.
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1 151 Such names seem to them identificatory, and leave them in no doubt as to their condition and status.
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4 57 On Gor, as elsewhere, there are many common names.
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9 113 They, and many such names, are worn by hundreds of women in bondage.
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9 115 One girl, of course, may, from time to time, have many different names, according to the whim of her master, or masters.
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30 38 The shrub has various names but one of them is the tor shrub, which name might be fairly translated, I would think, as, say, the bright shrub, or the shrub of light, it having that name, I suppose, because of its abundant, bright flowers, either yellow or white, depending on the variety.
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31 40 These are usually kept in cord collars, with small disks attached to them, indicating the names of their masters.
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48 579 Even torturers, I supposed, might be satisfied with the information that we had given the girl to a mercenary, Edgar of Tarnwald, and he, by that time, would presumably have slipped away, unnoticed, and presumably under new names.
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Book 25. (21 results) Magicians of Gor

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17 260 The ponderous fellow then looked upward and called out, "Oh, Saba Boroko Swaziloo, old chap, if you can hear me, and if it be you who has wafted away my little Litsia, perhaps for her instruction and improvement, please return her to me now!" Such names, of course, are nonsense, and are not really A...
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18 276 The names of slaves, of course, may be given and taken away at will, as the names of other sorts of animals.
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22 166 This sort of thing is familiar, of course, in all languages, as Smith, Chandler, Carpenter, Carter, and such, stand for occupations, and names like Hampshire, Lake, Holm, Rivers, and such, stand for places, and names like Stone, Hammer, Rock, and such, stand for things.
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8 181 Many Gorean streets, incidentally, do not have specific names, particularly from one end to the other, some being known by one designation here and another there.
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8 182 Indeed, sometimes a long, winding street will have several names, depending on its turns and so on.
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8 183 Others may have no names really, in themselves, but are referred to, for example, as the street on which Sabor has his smithy, and so on.
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8 185 For example, alleys seldom have names.
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8 186 So, too, many Gorean streets, particularly those that are smaller and much like alleys, may not have names.
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9 154 One list, for example, had the names of the women upon it, in the order in which they ascended the platform.
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9 155 It was from this list that one of the scribes announced the names.
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9 157 The most interesting lists, however, seemed to be lists referred to as the various names were called.
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9 525 It was not one of the copies of the master list, so to speak, which contained the full list of names.
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10 123 "I am not familiar with the politics of Ar," I said, "so I do not recognize the names".
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13 214 "I have heard that there are fights among youths in Ar," he said, "that the gangs of youths called 'Cosians' are now set upon by others, who speak of themselves by eccentric names, such as 'The Ubars,' 'The Larls,' and such".
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14 427 Names were read, and domiciles.
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18 6 And if our challenges and questions were satisfactorily met, we would proceed further, first volunteering, of course, in deference to alternative authority, our own names and missions in turn.
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18 269 "The others, too, have changed their names?" I said.
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19 796 "Did you not see names written on the call boards in the kitchen?" "No," she said.
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22 146 Whereas this graffiti is mostly of a predictable sort, as one might expect, names, proclamations of love, denunciations of enemies, obscenities, and such, some of it is, in my opinion, at least, of quite high quality.
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22 464 The fact that not all Gorean streets have generally accepted or marked names can add to the confusion.
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27 103 What I do is to play myself, under different names.
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Book 26. (32 results) Witness of Gor

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11 561 They are also, like certain names of this world, regarded as slave names.
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11 565 It may be because we are often sold under such names, we then wearing them as slave names, put on us for the convenience of masters.
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11 585 I gathered that there might be several collars there, some of which bore names which either were, or might be regarded as, Earth-girl names.
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7 60 "I have had many names," I said.
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7 183 "What were the names of those who trained you, who taught you?" he asked.
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7 184 "They did not speak their names before us," I said.
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7 738 Those names are extremely common on this world, for women such as we.
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7 739 There must be thousands with such names.
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7 740 Both had doubtless, over time, in their sojourn in the collar, had many names.
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7 741 Even I, who had not been so long on this world, had had various names.
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7 743 We do not have names in our own right, of course, given what we are, no more than, say, tarsk and sleen.
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10 500 Sometimes the names, or signs, are written on her body.
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10 731 They are regarded as slave names.
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11 507 "We have them with a variety of names," she said.
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11 559 Many Earth-girl names I would discover, understandably enough, I suppose, have an exotic flavor to the men of this world.
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11 563 It may be because they tend to be unfamiliar names to the men of this world.
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11 567 There are some names, of course, which are common to both this world and my old world, which suggests interesting questions of etiology.
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11 568 Similarly there are some names on this world which are on free women but which are also, often, found on slaves.
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11 571 This is not entirely unnatural, of course, as such names are often beautiful, and, naturally, more familiar to the masters.
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11 572 Too, such names sometimes help the new slave to make the transition to her new status and condition.
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11 576 An interesting variation on this sort of thing is the giving of Earth-girl names to women of this world.
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11 578 To be sure, in time, as we learn our collars and condition, I think that names make little difference.
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11 579 Many names, of diverse sorts, are stimulating and beautiful.
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11 640 We, of course, do not address free men by their names but as "Master".
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11 1835 There are many names for this sort of performance.
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16 289 It was here that someone, deeper and more real than names, had found herself.
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19 475 Enough to spill a few drops from the first cup, a libation, honoring Priest-Kings, or perhaps, in the name of Priest-Kings, for what is involved here may have many names, what might hold sway over both men and Priest-Kings, the fates, the mystery.
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29 189 The notation on the papers which had been made by the clerk had undoubtedly been the slave's name, presumably with the effective date of the name, as such names may be changed, as the master wishes.
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29 190 Subsequent names may, of course, be added to the papers, with their effective dates.
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29 191 Different masters, for example, will often give different names to slaves.
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37 140 I had seen them, in a little demonstration which had been staged for my benefit, one I was never likely to forget, seek out and rip apart particular pieces of meat, pieces of meat which had been given particular names.
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Book 27. (22 results) Prize of Gor

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10 293 And such names are regarded here, on this world, as slave names, and names fit for the lowliest and most worthless slaves.
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10 264 "I have thought of names, 'Filth', 'Feces', 'Fecal Matter', such names".
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16 384 Similarly, a girl is sometimes taught "slave names" for objects, without being informed that these are slave names.
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22 301 Those girls who did not have names were given names, for clerical purposes, which might or might not be kept on them after a sale.
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24 220 Earth names, she had learned, were understood on Gor as slave names.
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1 66 Too, in accordance with the admonitions to which she has been subjected, she will attempt to conceal the names of institutions, and references to streets, and localities, museums, theaters, parks, shops and boulevards, and such things, which might serve to identify or reveal, even tentatively or rem...
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9 29 Her kneeling young charge, to her amazement, noted that these packages, sealed with tape, bore names and slogans with which she was familiar on Earth.
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9 32 Attentive to the injunctions placed upon her in connection with this narrative the names of these stores are omitted.
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10 285 "To be sure," he said, "aside from the fact that 'Ellen' is a suitable name for a meaningless, pretty little slave like yourself, that name, as many similar names, has other connotations, connotations and suggestions of which I am aware but you in all likelihood are not.
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11 519 Such expressions, she surmised, might be code names for competitive organizations or factions.
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11 520 That hypothesis pleased her, though she was not clear why free persons should have recourse to code names before a mere slave.
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12 526 One refers to free men as "Master" and free women as "Mistress," unless given permission to use their names".
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15 521 Many times clutching, grateful, gasping slaves heard the names of women they did not know cried out as free men used them to climax their pleasures.
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16 837 There were other names, phrases and remarks that Ellen did not even understand.
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18 749 "But I have had various names.
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22 213 She could recognize, incidentally, several of the signs of the Gorean alphabet but knew only two or three of their names and sounds.
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22 300 Records were kept, regarding the lot numbers and names.
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22 302 Some of the names were lovely.
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22 542 To be sure, slaves learn quickly to respond to the names given them by their masters.
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24 217 Those were Earth names, Ellen realized.
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24 221 So it was not that unusual to find such names worn by Gorean slaves.
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25 317 "Masters commonly give us names.
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Book 28. (23 results) Kur of Gor

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46 83 "He who is before names, and beyond names, and other than names," said another.
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3 257 Earth feminine names, in general, are commonly regarded on Gor as slave names.
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11 48 As the names of these two individuals are in Kur we shall refer to them, as is our wont, by choosing, almost at random, names whose phonemic nature will be accessible to readers who may be supposed unfamiliar with Kur.
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11 49 We shall refer to them, in this case, by names which are not unfamiliar in Ar, indeed, names somewhat common in Ar, Lucullus and Crassus.
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14 37 In his usage of them he gave them the names Tula and Lana, both common Gorean slave names.
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75 40 Such names are sometimes given to Gorean slaves as punishment names.
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1 9 Are names so important? Perhaps.
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1 12 They cannot tell themselves from their names, nor do they care to do so.
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1 15 They have names; reality does not.
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3 232 Those are common slave names on Gor.
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3 262 So, too, I am told, are names such as Jane, as suggested, and others, Jean, Joan, Margaret, Helen, Elizabeth, Marjorie, Allison, Corinne, Constance, and such.
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3 263 Those may not have been their original names, of course.
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3 265 To be sure, such names are also not unknown, as I am informed, in the colonies, or former colonies, of that place, too, one of the Englands.
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4 10 This note is largely to remind any reader unfamiliar with Kur that in the interests of intelligibility we must either devise names for individual Kurii, or have recourse to descriptions, or such.
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10 59 Commonly slaves are not permitted to call free men and free women by their names.
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25 28 "What are your names?" "Your translator will not carry our designations," said the larger of the two Kurii.
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29 43 "On Earth," she said, "female slaves were sometimes given meaningful names, things like Plum or Cherry".
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29 186 "Because it is such a lovely name for a slave!" "Thousands of slaves are given the simple name, 'Lita'," he said, "as they are such names as 'Lana', 'Mira', 'Tuka', and such".
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35 133 "And what might have been the source of this intelligence, the betrayed names, and such?" asked Cabot.
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77 49 "A slave," said Cabot, "may speak the names of free persons in certain fashions, and in certain situations, obviously, such as 'My master is Tarl Cabot', 'I am the slave of Tarl Cabot', 'Mistress Publia desires that you would call upon her', 'Master Gordon desires your opinion on the breeding of a y...
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77 50 But the slave does not address the master, or other free persons, by their own names, unless having permission to do so".
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77 57 "The names of free persons are not to be soiled in such ways, by appearing on the lips of slaves".
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78 43 It was one of my names, when I was free".
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Book 29. (24 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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11 57 Some names, like 'Saru', are belittling names, or contempt names.
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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.
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9 104 Earth-girl names commonly serve as slave names on Gor.
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28 324 Earth-girl names, it might be noted, are commonly accounted slave names on Gor, and may be put upon Gorean girls as well as slaves harvested from the fields of Earth.
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5 1162 In any event, names, if they were to receive them, would be given to them by masters.
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10 195 "Barbarian names are so difficult".
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10 368 I would later learn that daimyo, or "great names," were vassals to a shogun, a high lord, usually a military governor, with an army at his disposal.
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11 56 Names may be changed, from time to time.
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11 58 Other names may be fit for low slaves, others for prized slaves, and so on.
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11 59 Names may be used to punish or commend, to humiliate or delight, and so on.
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11 60 Earth-girl names, which may be put on any slave, regardless of her world of origin, are commonly used for low slaves.
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11 61 'Cecily', the name of my slave, had once been one of her free-woman names.
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12 81 Expressions, incidentally, such as "Agamemnon" and "Arcesilaus" are used for convenience, as the actual names, being in Kur, cannot be rendered in the phonemes of either English or Gorean.
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12 82 The two names given were used by humans on the Steel World in question to refer to the individuals involved.
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15 298 I gathered that he was not overly pleased with the slave's view of certain names.
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15 302 But men on Gor certainly had no objection to the name because it, as most female Earth names, suggested a barbarian slave, and barbarian slaves, though not selling as well in some markets as Gorean slaves, particularly those once of high caste, tended to be prized by many masters.
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24 134 "Those may not be their true names," said Lord Nishida.
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24 137 Too, it should be noted that the names given were not unusual on Gor.
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24 138 I had known others who bore those names, particularly Quintus and Fabius.
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24 139 Those names are common in Ar.
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24 140 The names might have been altered, too, of course, simply to obtain the convenience of an alias.
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28 323 Slave names are often short, and convenient, such as 'Lita', 'Lana', 'Dina', and such.
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28 326 There are many names on Gor, of course, both masculine and feminine, which are frequently encountered, as is the case on Earth.
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43 123 "Many of our mercenaries," said Lord Nishida, "have chosen names for convenience, to distance themselves from records of crime and blood, to elude pursuers, to escape justice, to begin new lives, such things".
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Book 30. (11 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 279 'Talena', it might be noted, was at one time a common name on Gor, much as dozens of other names.
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1 366 Within the city collaborators, their names posted on the public boards, were hunted down, room to room.
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3 176 Proscription lists were publicly posted, containing the names of many traitors and collaborators yet to be caught and brought to the justice of the spear.
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5 150 "Many men here," said Lord Nishida, quietly, "are known elsewhere by other names.
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9 460 Then, by the will of whatever gods there be, by whatever names be theirs, we found ourselves, and gold, on a far shore.
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12 132 In other places it has other names, in Cos the month of Lurius, named for our great Ubar, whose palaces and fortresses are in Jad.
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12 305 There would be the helmsman, and a bound slave, the stem-castle watch, and the deck watch, which was by two men, whose names I would soon discover.
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17 209 "There are various names," he said, "the Raging Sea, the Sea of Fire".
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33 59 To be sure, as with any other animal, names may be withheld, or changed, at will, at the master's will.
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37 1535 "I conjecture that names, and such, will be changed".
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37 1543 Still slaves like to have names, and it is convenient that they should be named, obviously, for a variety of reasons, for ease of referring to them, instructing them, and such.
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Book 31. (13 results) Conspirators of Gor

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13 63 Many Goreans, too, I understood, particularly of the lower castes, had "use names," to conceal their real names, lest their real names, it seemed, might supply ill-wishers with grist for spells and sorceries.
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7 243 Then I thought to myself, you are no longer "Allison," slave, for slaves have no names but at the pleasure of their masters.
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8 201 Many Gorean streets have no names, really, other than, say, the street of the "smithy of Marcus," the alley "where Decius the cobbler has his shop," and so on.
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13 62 I realized that free persons do not always reveal their names to slaves.
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27 281 These were now, of course, slave names, only that, no more.
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27 283 "Those names will do," she said.
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34 76 I did not even know the names of the letters I was transcribing.
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35 144 "In order to do that," he said, "obviously the pieces, which have rules for movements, and commonly accepted values, must have names, and there must be a way of designating the areas to which they might be moved.
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35 219 "I would not want your pretty body torn apart on the rack," he said, "while you are crying out their name, or names".
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47 3 It had been announced, yesterday, that all conspirators had twenty Ahn in which to surrender themselves, before their names would be revealed to the high Kurii by Desmond of Harfax, who, in full nobility, had come forward voluntarily to perform his bounden duty to his superiors.
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47 4 He had apparently made the stipulation that he would reveal the names of the conspirators only to Agamemnon himself, thus assuring himself that all would be done fully and properly, without any confusion or mistake, and, also, naturally, one supposes, that he, Desmond of Harfax, would then be recogn...
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48 25 "But now, reveal, clearly, and without exception, the names of all traitors, whether human or Kur".
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50 11 The Lady Bina would not even tell me the names of the letters, or their values.
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Book 32. (17 results) Smugglers of Gor

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13 122 I knew that slave names were commonly simple, as one would expect, as they are the names for animals.
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4 142 Many crimes have no names.
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7 148 We had no names.
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7 150 When we were named, if we were named, they would be slave names, put on us, and taken away, at a master's pleasure.
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7 151 Do verr and tarsk have names? "You will form a line, standing, facing me, head down, wrists crossed behind your back," said the fellow in blue, with the marking board, and pencil.
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9 392 "Slaves should have names," he said.
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13 113 "Barbarian names are often complex," he said.
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13 115 "Did you know that such names are commonly found in primitive groups, innocent of civilization?" "No, Master," I said.
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13 123 Common slave names, at least on the continent, were such as Tula, Bina, Lana, Leila, Lita, and such.
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13 125 Barbarian slaves are commonly given barbarian names, for example, Amanda, Amber, April, Beryl, Ethel, Tracy, Heather, Rose, Vivian, Victoria, Jocelyn, Stephanie, and such.
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13 126 Such names will mark her as barbarian, and suggest that she is born for the collar, as opposed to a Gorean woman of caste and Home Stone, and may be treated accordingly.
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13 127 Such names are apparently stimulatory to many Gorean males.
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14 189 Among them, too, were thieves, brigands, and cutthroats, some of whose names and descriptions adorned the public boards in more than one city.
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15 28 I had been used under a variety of names.
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15 176 Masters often prefer lovely names for slaves; mistresses are usually less indulgent.
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15 488 The men knew the names of several of us, who were commonly about the docks.
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41 263 I would not know the names of ships, or captains, or types of ships, or what they carried, or what I might be doing on such a voyage, and so on.
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

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7 113 "I do not know the names of animals, Captain san," he said.
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17 155 "What two officers?" "Their names," he said, "are Pertinax and Tajima".
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29 144 "Yes," she said, "Sumomo, free woman, daughter of Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands!" "Slaves," I said, "do not have names, unless it pleases masters to give them one".
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29 530 "There are many beautiful names," I said.
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31 57 "They gave you different names," said the warrior.
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50 211 Presumably they would have names.
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56 55 "To me! To me! We have found our informant!" I also added, for good measure, several other names, choosing them at random.
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Book 34. (13 results) Plunder of Gor

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5 69 You no longer have names, unless we choose to give you names.
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28 47 It is not that the streets lack names, only that the names are not likely to be known by strangers.
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2 180 Many, perhaps all, have visited, so to speak, the shores of Gor, even if they did not know the continent on which they touched, nor the names of its ports".
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8 411 "She will have a thousand masters and a hundred names.
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13 184 Though different names had been put on me, from time to time, I was usually named 'Phyllis'.
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15 38 I had no clear idea of the world, or, really, in a sense, where I was, save for some names and vague notions, and few, it seemed, cared to enlighten me.
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34 279 "And what is the name of the other?" "The names of Kurii, and such," he said, "cannot be rendered in the sounds of Gorean, or, I suppose, in any human language".
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34 281 "Names are chosen," he said, "either by the animal itself, or by others.
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58 8 Needless to say, such mixtures were occasionally sold, and for a good price, to free women under different names.
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60 281 If larls could speak, how could one transcribe their names in human phonemes? I did not even know, nor, if I knew, could I pronounce the Kur name of Lord Grendel, or that of Lord Agamemnon, or Surtak, or Eve, or Lyris, or others.
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60 282 I had little doubt that the names 'Aelius' and 'Lucilius' had been chosen with political intent, largely to soothe apprehensions in the House of a Hundred Corridors, to suggest a relationship of sympathy and accord that might not exist, to insist on the existence of a bridge where, in reality, one m...
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68 75 I shall not specify the names of the two cities.
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69 196 Slaves have no names in their own right.
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Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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36 55 Who knew what names were his earlier, or what deeds might have led one such as he to a city with no Home Stone.
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36 74 It did not seem likely to me, on the whole, that there would be a connection between the two names, that of the woman and the ship.
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40 270 Earth-girl names, incidentally, are sometimes put on native Gorean girls, perhaps to punish them, belittle them, demean them, humiliate them, or so on.
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Book 36. (12 results) Avengers of Gor

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29 203 On Gor, Earth-girl names are regarded as slave names, much as Earth girls are regarded as actual or potential slaves.
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6 300 This name, a familiar Cosian slave name, is pronounced, as many such names, in two syllables, in this case, as "Lah-ees".
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19 71 "Names are like caps," I said.
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27 99 We had earlier determined that the names of the 'Three Ubaras' were Melete, Iantha, and Philomena.
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29 55 We appreciate the names and ranks of enemies, their numbers and weaponry, their supplies and stores.
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29 192 "Are not names such as 'Melete', 'Iantha', and 'Philomena' too fine for slaves?" "Surely," said a man.
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29 198 "What sort of names are those?" asked the man.
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29 199 "Earth-girl names," I said.
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29 200 "Slave names," said the man.
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29 208 Giving our three new slaves Earth-girl names, I thought, would let them know how we regarded them, and help them to understand all the more quickly that they were no longer free women.
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29 214 It is on their knees that slaves commonly acknowledge their new names.
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61 7 "I am not one of those handsome, charismatic fellows who cannot act but merely portrays himself under different names," he said.
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