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| 3 | 72 |
On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another o... |
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| 1 | 112 |
I lay awake for a long time, feeling alone, yet not alone, as one sometimes does in the wilderness, feeling as if one were the only living object on the planet and as if the closest things to one—one's fate and destiny perhaps—lay outside our small world, somewhere in the remote, alien... |
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| 1 | 232 |
The soil of my planet, my world. |
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| 2 | 27 |
But as I stood at the window, I knew that this could not be my mother planet. |
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| 2 | 39 |
The planet, then, was smaller than our earth, and, given the apparent size of the sun, perhaps somewhat closer to it. |
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| 2 | 79 |
I learned later that on this alien world a strong man may feel and express emotions, and that the hypocrisy of constraint is not honored on this planet as it is on mine. |
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| 2 | 90 |
I nodded, not wanting to speak, wanting him to tell me the thousand things I had to know, to dispel the mysteries that had torn me from my native world and brought me to this strange room, this planet, to him, my father. |
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| 2 | 114 |
In all the languages of this planet, the word means Home Stone". |
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| 2 | 126 |
Indeed, there is a saying on Gor, a saying whose origin is lost in the past of this strange planet, that one who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved, and honor is respected in the barbaric codes of Gor. |
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| 2 | 146 |
"It is the occasional dream of a conqueror or statesman," he said, "to have but a single Supreme Home Stone for the planet". |
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| 2 | 155 |
As he spoke, my father often referred to the planet Gor as the Counter-Earth, taking the name from the writings of the Pythagoreans who had first speculated on the existence of such a body. |
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| 2 | 193 |
It was supposed that they were aware of all that transpired on their planet, but, if so, I was informed that they seemed, on the whole, to take little note of it. |
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| 2 | 226 |
He said, from what he could learn from the Initiates, who claimed to serve as the intermediaries of Priest-Kings to men, that the planet Gor had originally been a satellite of a distant sun, in one of the fantastically remote Blue Galaxies. |
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| 2 | 230 |
If the planet had been moved at all, and I knew enough to understand that this was empirically possible, it must have been brought into our system from a closer star. |
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| 2 | 232 |
Theoretically, I did admit that the planet might have been moved without destroying its life, but the engineering magnitude of such a feat staggered the imagination. |
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| 2 | 233 |
Perhaps life might have been suspended temporarily or hidden beneath the planet's surface with sufficient sustenance and oxygen for the incredible journey. |
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| 2 | 234 |
In effect, the planet would have functioned as a gigantic sealed spacecraft. |
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| 2 | 235 |
There was another possibility I mentioned to my father—perhaps the planet had been in our system all the time, but had been undiscovered, unlikely though that might be, given the thousands of years of study of the skies by men, from the shambling creatures of the Neander Valley to the brillia... |
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| 2 | 238 |
He added, "That is why I like to think of the planet as the Counter-Earth, not only because of its resemblance to our native world, but because, as a matter of fact, it is placed as a counterpoise to the Earth. |
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| 2 | 241 |
One can't hide a planet the size of the Earth in our own solar system! It's impossible!" "You underestimate the Priest-Kings and their science," said my father, smiling. |
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| 2 | 242 |
"Any power that is capable of moving a planet—and I believe the Priest-Kings possess this power—is capable of effecting adjustments in the motion of the planet, such adjustments as might allow it to use the sun indefinitely as a concealing shield". |
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| 2 | 247 |
In all probability their control over the motion of the planet is somehow connected with this capacity. |
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| 2 | 249 |
Physical evidence, such as light or radio waves, which might reveal the presence of the planet, can be prevented from doing so. |
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| 2 | 262 |
"Surely you know," he laughed, "one must distinguish between the data to be interpreted and the interpretation of the data, and one chooses, normally, the interpretation that preserves as much as possible of the old world view, and, in the thinking of the Earth, there is no place for Gor, its true s... |
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| 2 | 277 |
After all, suppose you should accept this tale, should learn of the Counter-Earth and of the Voyages of Acquisition, what could you do? You could do nothing, you with your rudimentary technology of which you are so proud—you could do nothing at least for a thousand years, and by that time, if... |
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| 3 | 38 |
Most Goreans would have regarded it as a worthless tongue, since it is nowhere spoken on the planet, but Torm had mastered it, apparently only for the delight of seeing how living thought could express itself in yet another garb. |
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| 3 | 58 |
I was given some prayers to the Priest-Kings to memorize, but they were in Old Gorean, a language cultivated by the Initiates but not spoken generally on the planet, and I never bothered to learn them. |
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| 3 | 115 |
This suggested to me that perhaps a well-developed language or mode of conceptual thought existed prior to the primitive hunting groups that must have flourished long ago on the planet. |
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| 3 | 124 |
On the whole, I liked the people I met, and I was confident that they were largely of Earth stock, that their ancestors had been brought to the planet in Voyages of Acquisition. |
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| 3 | 125 |
Apparently, after having been brought to the planet, they had simply been released, much as animals might be released in a forest preserve, or fish stocked free in a river. |
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| 4 | 112 |
The planet might be exploding and a man would stop to remove a burr from his sandal. |
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| 6 | 178 |
The Robes of Concealment, in function, resemble the garments of Muslim women on my own planet, though they are undoubtedly more intricate and cumbersome. |
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| 10 | 119 |
To me, the most puzzling thing about the domesticated tharlarions, and the way in which they differed most obviously from wild tharlarions and the lizards of my native planet, was their stamina, their capacity for sustained movement. |
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| 11 | 58 |
I wondered if, on my own planet, there was not a similar market, invisible but present, and just as much accepted, a market in which women were sold, except that they sold themselves, were themselves both merchandise and merchant. |
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| 11 | 59 |
How many of the women of my native planet, I wondered, did not with care consider the finances, the property of their prospective mates? How many of them did not, for all practical purposes, sell themselves, bartering their bodies for the goods of the world? Here on Gor, however, I observed ironical... |
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| 13 | 70 |
Their disease is so highly contagious, so invariably devastating in its effect, and so feared on the planet that even the boldest of outlaws gives them a wide berth. |
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| 20 | 6 |
I can see the blazing sun this July afternoon, and know that behind it, counterpoised with my native planet, lies another world. |
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| 20 | 10 |
The shape of a world had been altered, the rivers of a planet's history turned to new channels. |
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| 20 | 72 |
Who or what are the Priest-Kings that they should so determine the lives of others, that they should rule a planet, terrorize the cities of a world, commit men to the Flame Death, tear lovers from each other's arms? No matter how fearful their power, they must be challenged. |
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| 2 | 2 |
I awakened naked in the wind-swept grass, beneath that blazing star that is the common sun of my two worlds, my home planet, Earth, and its secret sister, the Counter-Earth, Gor. |
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| 2 | 6 |
I was aware again of the somewhat lesser gravity of the planet, but this awareness would pass as my system accommodated itself naturally to the new environment. |
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| 12 | 79 |
The Priest-Kings of Gor, who served as the divinities of this rude planet, inspired little but awe, and occasionally fear. |
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| 14 | 182 |
"Tabuk!" The tabuk is the most common Gorean antelope, a small graceful animal, one-horned and yellow, that haunts the Ka-la-na thickets of the planet and occasionally ventures daintily into its meadows in search of berries and salt. |
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| 17 | 79 |
The working day is fifteen Gorean hours, or Ahn, which, allowing for the slight difference in the period of the planet's rotation, would be approximately eighteen Earth hours. |
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| 1 | 2 |
It came about late in the month of En'Kara in the year 10,117 from the founding of the city of Ar that I came to the Hall of Priest-Kings in the Sardar Mountains on the planet Gor, our Counter-Earth. |
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| 26 | 261 |
As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ... |
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| 27 | 258 |
And when the swift living blade of Sarm was still a full yard from my throat it met the lightning steel of a Gorean blade that had once been carried at the siege of Ar, that had met and withstood and conquered the steel of Pa-Kur, Gor's Master Assassin, until that time said to be the most skilled sw... |
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| 28 | 254 |
"Sarm could destroy the Nest," said Misk, "even the planet". |
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| 31 | 107 |
"He is going to break apart the planet". |
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| 31 | 127 |
As he was doing this the entire Nest seemed to shift and the planet convulsed, and fire spurted from the paneling. |
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| 31 | 157 |
"I am destroying the planet," he said. |
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| 31 | 183 |
I imagined the panic in the cities of Gor, the pitching ships at sea, the stampedes of animals, and only I, of all humans, was at the place where this havoc had begun, only I was there to gaze upon the author of the destruction of a world, the golden destroyer of a planet. |
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| 32 | 8 |
"The planet?" I asked. |
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| 32 | 198 |
I sensed the difference in the gravitation of the planet. |
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| 33 | 33 |
I knew that never before in the history of the planet had a man been seen to return from the Sardar. |
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| 33 | 55 |
He knew! He knew as well as I that the gravitational field of the planet was being reestablished. |
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| 33 | 68 |
I surmised that, pending some form of military victory of Ar over the other cities or some form of large-scale political reordering of the planet, the Initiate of Ar's claims would remain a matter of dispute. |
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| 33 | 114 |
The Initiates had their way of life, their ancient traditions, their given livelihood, the prestige of their caste, which they claimed to be the highest on the planet, their teachings, their holy books, their services, their role to play in the culture. |
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| 35 | 36 |
In the end, those humans who wished to remain on the surface had landed elsewhere, far from their native cities, and scattered themselves as vagabonds about the roads and alien cities of the planet. |
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| 1 | 24 |
I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap... |
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| 1 | 20 |
The Wagon Peoples claimed the southern prairies of Gor, from gleaming Thassa and the mountains of Ta-Thassa to the southern foothills of the Voltai Range itself, that reared in the crust of Gor like the backbone of a planet. |
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| 1 | 26 |
Briefly, for those it might interest, all directions on the planet are calculated from the Sardar Mountains, which for the purposes of calculating direction play a role analogous to our north pole; the two main directions, so to speak, in the Gorean way of thinking are Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki... |
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| 6 | 120 |
"You are on another planet". |
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| 26 | 214 |
"He knows! He knows!" "Does it truly make a difference," asked Kamchak of me, "whether or not he shatters the sphere?" "Yes," I said, "there is nothing more valuable on all Gor—it is perhaps worth the planet itself". |
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| 3 | 70 |
I also think the Gorean success in combating aging may be partly due to the severe limitations, in many matters, on the technology of the human beings on the planet. |
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| 3 | 71 |
Priest-Kings have no wish that men become powerful enough on Gor to challenge them for the supremacy of the planet. |
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| 3 | 73 |
Be that as it may, the Priest-Kings have limited man severely on this planet in many respects, notably in weaponry, communication and transportation. |
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| 5 | 309 |
They live in a set of Master Ships, each almost an artificial planet in itself. |
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| 5 | 310 |
As long as these ships remain outside the fifth ring, that of the planet Earthmen call Jupiter, the Goreans Hersius, after a legendary hero of Ar, we do not fight". |
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| 5 | 395 |
It is possible the Others of the ships have made contact with those permitted to live on the planet, under our laws. |
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| 11 | 115 |
We have men of their world in the House and men of our world on their planet". |
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| 11 | 247 |
"This is the planet Gor". |
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| 11 | 274 |
"Strong men," said Flaminius, "have always, even in the course of your own planet's history, taken the females of weaker men for their slaves". |
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| 17 | 457 |
After the work of Caprus and myself was finished I would be able to join her, probably in Ko-ro-ba, for a time, before we arranged to return her to Earth; I assumed, naturally, she would wish to return to her native planet. |
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| 9 | 16 |
They are sought eagerly in the many cities of the planet. |
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| 9 | 179 |
"You will be, for your own good, for your own safety and well-being, returned to the planet Earth, where you will no longer have to fear the perils of this world". |
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| 9 | 181 |
"It is mine as much as yours! I love it and you cannot send me from it!" "You will be returned to the planet Earth," I had informed her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 147 |
I live in New York City, which is a city on the planet Earth. |
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| 7 | 3 |
Shortly before he made me one of his girls, some two or three days before, he had been attacked by outlaw tarnsmen, some four days journey north by northeast from the city of Ko-ro-ba, which lies high in the northern temperate latitudes of the planet Gor, which is the name of this world. |
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| 7 | 364 |
I was certain that I could, with my resources on Earth, purchase swift passage back to my home planet. |
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| 7 | 531 |
I remembered that the large man, on the planet Earth, had said to me this thing. |
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| 9 | 228 |
It is not impossible that they belt the land surfaces of the planet. |
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| 12 | 60 |
How good it was to have the stench of the pens behind us! How good it was to be out of the slave wagon! I, Elinor Brinton, formerly a rich girl, now a slave on a distant planet, was happy. |
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| 13 | 561 |
I inhaled the fresh, glorious air of the planet Gor. |
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| 14 | 619 |
It was superior to any I had ever worn on Earth, when I had been wealthy and could command the customized attentions of the finest continental perfumers, and yet here, on this barbaric planet, it was used without thought to adorn the body of Elinor Brinton, a mere slave girl. |
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| 15 | 1460 |
I am of the planet Earth! I belong in New York City! I live on Park Avenue, in a great building! I am rich! I am educated! On my world I am an important person! I am of Earth, of Earth! You cannot treat me as a simple slave!" Then I put my head in my hands. |
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| 12 | 7 |
I would, from under the nose of Marlenus, preferably by trade, snatch Talena, thus evening the score for his banishment of me from Ar, thus regaining her, thus winning glory, thus setting my ladder against the political heights of the planet Gor, for, with such a woman at my side, there were few doo... |
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| 13 | 344 |
"Are you from the planet Earth?" I asked her. |
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| 14 | 163 |
She was only a weak girl of Earth, taken as slave to this barbaric planet. |
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| 15 | 941 |
It had served, with other properties, to distinguish her as a precious person, a unique individual, among all others on the planet Earth. |
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| 22 | 281 |
It meant that she would be the richest and most powerful woman on Gor, that armies and navies, and tarn cavalries, could move upon her very word, that the taxes of an empire the wealthiest on Gor could be laid at her feet, that the most precious of gems and jewels might be hers, that she would be th... |
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| 22 | 608 |
And none, ever, would see it on the planet Earth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 569 |
I speculated that Earth governments, or some of them, were reasonably well aware that their planet must now be the locus of frequent alien slave raids; but why would the alien power not make itself known and openly demand their jewels among the female resources of the planet; the governments would n... |
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| 1 | 438 |
Once I had been among the finest swordsmen on the planet Gor. |
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| 11 | 207 |
If it was successful, the Priest-Kings, to preserve men on the planet might be forced to intervene, thus breaking their own laws. |
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| 15 | 53 |
If Kurii native to Gor could, within the laws of Priest-Kings, not violating technology restrictions, much advance the Kurii cause on the planet, those on the ships had little to lose and much to gain. |
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| 15 | 56 |
But if Priest-Kings, eventually, should halt the invasion, that, too, might be of interest to the Kurii of the steel ships, remote, prowling outside the fifth ring, that of the planet on Earth called Jupiter, that on Gor called Hersius, after one of Ar's legendary heroes. |
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| 22 | 133 |
She had once, against my wishes, fled the Sardar, when I had wished, as a foolish Earthling, to return her to her home planet, for safety. |
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| 22 | 268 |
It had been my intention to repledge the companionship, and to become great on Gor, to raise high the chair of Bosk, climbing in riches and power to the heights of the planet, to become even, perhaps, in time, a world's Ubar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 149 |
History on Earth, long ago, had taken a turning away from the body, from nature, from the needs of men and women, from genetically linked psychobiological realities; this turning away, ultimately and inevitably, had produced an unloved, exploited, polluted planet swarming with miserable populations ... |
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| 26 | 877 |
"Repeat after me," I told her, "'I, once Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, of the planet Earth—'" "I, once Miss Elizabeth Cardwell of the planet Earth—" she said. |
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| 1 | 774 |
As long as the Kurii remained behind the fifth ring, that determined by the orbit of the planet called on Earth Jupiter, on Gor, Hersius, after a legendary hero of Ar, the Priest-Kings were little concerned with them. |
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| 4 | 333 |
Alyena did not understand that the discipline under which slaves are kept must be real, whatever the planet. |
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| 5 | 805 |
She made a lovely addition to the planet's livestock. |
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| 7 | 373 |
"The former Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, of New York City, of the planet Earth?" he asked. |
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| 21 | 483 |
It could be no accident that this Kur and not another had received this dreadful assignment, to protect the device of a planet's destruction until its detonation. |
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| 21 | 579 |
I did not know the rate of revolution of the Kurii's original planet, nor the rate of its rotation. |
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| 22 | 12 |
The schedules would have been designed to carry through and beyond the date set for the planet's destruction, in order not to arouse curiosity or suspicion among the Kurii's human agents. |
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| 22 | 17 |
The planet could have blown apart beneath their feet. |
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| 24 | 226 |
"There have been many in the history of our planet, doubtless millions, and there are many today. |
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| 26 | 1216 |
Earth might be useful as a slave planet, but the true prize, the object of their predation, would be Gor. |
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| 3 | 89 |
Only on Gor, in the presence of my captor, had I, at times, begun to suspect that there was an incredible, glorious world of experience, not forbidden on this planet, to which my nature as a female fully entitled me, could I but dare to be myself. |
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| 4 | 825 |
The Earth girl, a slave on a barbarian planet, clutched the blanket about her. |
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| 4 | 952 |
Among slave girls, however, ear piercing, inflicted upon them by the will of their masters, is becoming widespread on Gor; one might say it is gaining considerable popularity among masters, which accounts, of course, for its growing frequency in the female slave population of the planet; it is a cus... |
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| 7 | 1224 |
"Other girls from the planet Earth?" I whispered. |
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| 13 | 96 |
I had received a gift which on Earth could not be purchased by the riches of the wealthiest men, a gift which was beyond the reach of Earth's mightiest millionaires, which even the billionaires of my planet could not buy, for it did not exist there. |
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| 20 | 33 |
On the whole surface of the planet there was nowhere to run, nowhere to go. |
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| 26 | 204 |
Secondly, though you speak of yourself as the Lady Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers, you are, in actuality, Miss Elicia Nevins of the planet Earth. |
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| 26 | 242 |
"The planet Earth," she read. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 526 |
"The planet has waited years for this match," I said. |
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| 3 | 55 |
Indeed, Kaissa was played variously on the planet. |
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| 4 | 195 |
Scormus of Ar, no irrational fool, knew he played a fine master, one of the seven or eight top-rated players on the planet. |
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| 7 | 144 |
It was one of the largest migratory herds of tabuk on the planet. |
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| 15 | 854 |
"Yes," I said, "the most beautiful and desirable women on the planet seem generally to be the slaves". |
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| 33 | 44 |
How offensive I found his allegations! One need only use one's eyes to see how different we were! How incredible it would be if one landed upon a foreign shore, a planet remote from our own, and found, emerging from its dark forests, shambling toward one, its eyes blazing, one's brother. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 574 |
"One was temporarily lost upon the planet Earth some three to four thousand years ago, it being taken from a slain Kur commander by a man named Gyges, a herdsman, who used its power to usurp the throne of a country called Lydia, a country which then existed on Earth". |
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| 5 | 661 |
If we could acquire once more, of course, the Tahari ring, the fourth ring, which had been brought to Gor by a Kur faction intent upon preserving the planet from destruction, we could, presumably, have it duplicated in the Sardar. |
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| 6 | 70 |
There are, of course, many languages spoken on Gor, but that language I have called Gorean, in its various dialects, is the lingua franca of the planet. |
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| 6 | 589 |
There are often two major rains during the day, in the late afternoon, when the warm air has reached its precipitation point, and, again, in the late evening, when, due to the turning of the planet, the surface and upper atmosphere, darkened, cools. |
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| 27 | 191 |
They will understand little more than that the technology involved is well beyond that with which they are familiar, well beyond that of their native planet. |
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| 29 | 9 |
She was a naked woman, and a slave, on the barbaric planet of Gor. |
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| 53 | 458 |
Too, he would wish to use them to guarantee the safe passage of the ring to his prearranged rendezvous, from whence it would be eventually returned to the steel worlds, or, on this planet, used devastatingly against men and Priest-Kings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 312 |
I did not want to be taken away, to be made a slave girl on another planet". |
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| 1 | 317 |
Then she asked me, "Have you ever heard of the planet Gor?" "Certainly," I said, "it is a reasonably well-known fictional world". |
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| 2 | 146 |
"Where?" "Why, to the planet Gor," he said. |
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| 2 | 368 |
"You are going to be taken to the planet Gor," he said. |
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| 3 | 325 |
"I was once, for a time, on your planet," she said. |
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| 7 | 37 |
Could it not understand that the environmental criminal was far more dangerous than the lonely madman or assassin, that his crime affected not isolated, tragic victims but communities, a planet, unborn generations. |
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| 7 | 39 |
But if the people, truly, ruled, why and how could their planet's processes proceed in such obvious ways inimical to their welfare? How could their world be so miserable for the people if they were truly kings within it? But perhaps they were not kings within it. |
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| 7 | 64 |
This was not merely a function of the reduced gravity of the planet but of newly acquired strength. |
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| 7 | 250 |
It was not congenial to the contemporary political myths of my planet. |
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| 7 | 531 |
The girl of Earth would discover her sexuality on the planet Gor, or her master's whip would know the reason why. |
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| 10 | 68 |
"This is a man from the planet Earth". |
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| 10 | 223 |
I thought this even though I had been informed you were of the planet Earth". |
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| 12 | 230 |
It is true he is somewhat untrained, but which of you is not capable of training a silk slave? He is from the planet Earth. |
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| 21 | 229 |
It had been one of the fiercest, bloodiest tarn battles ever fought in the history of the planet. |
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| 27 | 110 |
And certainly, too, it is a custom which is widely spread on Gor, apparently even in more remote and outlying areas of this world where the most common language of the planet, Gorean, is infrequently spoken, if at all. |
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| 27 | 122 |
Interestingly the women of Tharna, presumably held in one of the most abject slaveries on the planet, are said to be among the most loving and content of all women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 306 |
Then I reminded myself that she was a free woman, and that she was from the planet Earth, my old planet. |
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| 11 | 45 |
"Are you from the planet Earth?" "Yes, Master," she said, "but please do not whip me. |
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| 11 | 46 |
It is not my fault that Earth is my planet of origin. |
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| 11 | 120 |
"I am from the planet Earth," I said. |
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| 11 | 259 |
"And yet," she said, "I am from the planet Earth. |
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| 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. |
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| 17 | 144 |
In the implacable decisions of nature, decisions at one with a world's journey about a star, at one with the turnings of a planet, with the alternance of day and night, and the successions of seasons, at one with storms and sunlight, with clouds and grass, with rain and tides, with manifold forms of... |
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| 19 | 570 |
"It is true that our planet of origin is Earth," I said. |
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| 20 | 972 |
In the former Peggy Baxter, of Earth, I now saw little left which was reminiscent of her planet of origin. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 779 |
Carrying such weapons they might be mistaken for beasts of their race who now, for all practical purposes, were native to Gor, beasts descended from individuals perhaps long ago marooned or stranded on the planet. |
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| 1 | 786 |
To be sure, they are concerned to maintain the natural ecosystems of the planet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 767 |
"This is another planet". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 407 |
It is interesting to note that it comes as a revelation to many young Earth females brought to Gor as slaves that Gorean males are quite unlike the males they are familiar with from their home planet. |
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| 3 | 741 |
"Another planet?" I asked. |
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| 4 | 51 |
"Another planet?" I asked. |
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| 4 | 59 |
"I am now truly on another planet?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 78 |
I had not yet been given clothing on this planet. |
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| 9 | 138 |
What ever became of Doreen? They would not guess for an instant that someone had seen values in her that they had not seen, or suspected, that Doreen, quiet, lovely, timid, shy Doreen, their reliable, unobtrusive co-worker, whom they had so much taken for granted, had come to the attention of men qu... |
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| 33 | 252 |
The male may scour a planet searching for her, but she, a slave, can often do no more than pine, and can approach her lover no more closely than is allowed by the length of her chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 395 |
A woman of Earth, if not beaten, and swiftly forced to learn her womanhood, would doubtless have held out for a time, confident that Gorean men, like those to whom she had become accustomed on her native planet, would prove to be weak, that they would yield to her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 27 | 517 |
"Have you heard of the planet, Earth?" I asked. |
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| 27 | 519 |
"And of women brought here from that planet?" "Slaves," she said. |
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| 28 | 99 |
"With all due respect," I said, "there are a few other cities and towns on this planet, and some of them hold their own culture in higher esteem than that of Ar". |
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| 28 | 502 |
"Even if five thousand managed to withdraw," I said, "that would still constitute one of the greatest of military disasters in the history of the planet". |
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| 2 | 68 |
The devastation of Ar's might in the delta was perhaps the greatest military disaster in the planet's history. |
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| 11 | 220 |
Are we not all the victims of hearsay, even with respect to many of our most profound "truths"? Of our thousands, and hundreds of thousands, of such "truths," how many have we personally earned? How many of us can determine the distance of a planet or the structure of a molecule? "I will have a wago... |
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| 21 | 512 |
On the other hand, it is one thing to be very beautiful, and another to be one of the most beautiful women on a planet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 275 |
With this power, they could, for example, move their planet from star to star, as it seemed appropriate to them, and, when they wished, if they wished, they might conceal its presence gravitationally, by affecting certain fields involved. |
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| 4 | 277 |
"Suppose then that human beings might exist, too, on such a planet, perhaps originally brought there for scientific purposes, say, as specimens, or perhaps as curiosities, or perhaps merely in the interests of aesthetics, much as one might plant a garden, putting one flower here and another there, o... |
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| 4 | 281 |
"On such a planet," he said, "presumably the dominant life forms would supervise, to some extent, the technology of human beings". |
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| 4 | 283 |
"They would not wish, for example, to allow human beings to develop a weaponry which might threaten them, or to develop in such a way as to impair the viability of the planet for organic life, such things". |
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| 7 | 88 |
"If I were to see you on the planet Earth," he said, "I would conjecture that you were somewhere in your late thirties, say, thirty-seven or thirty-eight. |
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| 10 | 368 |
"Where are you?" "I am on the planet Gor!" she cried. |
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| 10 | 369 |
"Know then that you are on the planet Gor, slave girl," said he. |
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| 11 | 316 |
Certainly you can understand how it might alleviate many social problems, one among many being that of expanding, uncontrolled populations intent on transforming a once verdant, lovely planet into arid, sterile ecological garbage. |
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| 13 | 34 |
"I love you, planet Gor," she cried. |
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| 14 | 117 |
Here I am simple, categorical, uncontested property not merely in the secrecy of a chamber, hidden away from an ignorant, uncaring, complacent, insensitive world, but in the full daylight of the cultures of a planet. |
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| 18 | 169 |
But how could one tell them from Gorean beauties? Did they not all seem lovely in their collars? Ellen knew that some Goreans referred to Earth as a "slave planet". |
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| 26 | 949 |
The thought crossed her mind then, as it had upon occasion before, that it was likely, at least for the most part, that only highly intelligent women were brought to this planet, to wear the collars of Gor. |
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| 27 | 694 |
To be sure, similar puzzles might exist with respect to any planet, or world". |
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| 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. |
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| 27 | 2406 |
How horrified might have been her former feminist sisters of Earth, but they were not collared on another planet, brazenly tunicked, and the tunic now and again thrust up almost to their breasts, grasped in the mud and put to the service of masters! Or would they have been thrilled, and envy her the... |
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| 30 | 58 |
At last, too, and more importantly, they are in their place in nature, with its endemic codes of dominance and submission, selected for in the long biography of a planet's evolution, codes pervasive throughout all animal life. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 556 |
You may find yourself in one, if your master permits it," or even things as obvious as, "You may begin, even now, to think of yourself as a Gorean slave," or "Be careful in your diet and see that you exercise well, that you may be more likely to obtain an affluent master when you are sold, from a sl... |
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| 1 | 833 |
It had been made clear to her, it seems, that she was no longer on Earth, but was a captive of beings alien to her, in an artificial satellite of a planet she had not even known existed, the Prison Moon. |
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| 4 | 191 |
"Then it is a natural world, a planet, for there is day and night!" she said. |
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| 4 | 193 |
"I do not understand," she said, "the rotation of a planet in its orbit, about its star". |
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| 19 | 22 |
The ecological niche on the planet Earth, which is usually filled with large predators of a feline nature, such as the lion, the tiger, and such, is filled, or mostly, on Gor by the larl, and a diversity of smaller predators, primarily pantherine in form. |
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| 81 | 25 |
In this way there was no difficulty in leaving a planet's surface, nor need they face dangers such as the exhaustion of the ship's source of power, the risk of its volatility, and so on. |
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| 81 | 26 |
Whereas the force of gravity as normally encountered is, so to speak, a very weak force, widely distributed, obviously it is, in its extent, a titanic force capable of holding moons to a planet, planets to a primary, stars in a galaxy, and so on. |
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| 81 | 28 |
Indeed, it was speculated that Priest-Kings could use a planet as what, in effect, it was, a space ship, and shift it, if one wished, from one primary to another, a competence possibly of great value, should alterations or disturbances take place in its local primary. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 343 |
"Here is a planet, with openness. |
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| 8 | 359 |
"It is another planet," he said. |
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| 10 | 497 |
In any event, they concurred with my judgment, and so the matter was settled, over drinks, and the clinking of glasses, in a dimly lit bar in Manhattan, that is, a drinking place in an area on the planet Earth. |
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| 18 | 171 |
The second major theory proposed to explain the ban of Priest-Kings on body armor is that the Priest-Kings, in their benign concern for human beings, one of the diverse life forms with which they stocked the planet, thought the banning of body armor would reduce injury and conflict, that it would le... |
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| 18 | 173 |
A variant on this theory, though one less benign, or misguided, is that the regulation from the Sardar was intended to help keep the numbers of human beings on the planet in check, that it functioned, in a sense, as a populational control device. |
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| 18 | 176 |
It might be noted that on the planet Earth war would seem to be counterproductive along these lines, as, on the whole, the healthy and robust do the fighting and the sickly, weak, and frail remain behind to replicate their genes. |
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| 19 | 106 |
Some men are alone, essentially solitary, their lives given over unswervingly to an ideal, or dream, the search for a fact, the discovery of a cause, or planet, the unraveling of a mystery, the creation of a perfect poem. |
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| 20 | 9 |
There was little fear now, even amongst the simplest of our armsmen and mariners, that the great ship might plunge from the planet's edge. |
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| 35 | 3 |
Brundisium is one of the world's largest, busiest ports, with one of the finest harbors on the planet, host to a hundred traffics, headquarters of a hundred Merchant houses, but never, until now, had there been seen such a ship. |
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| 8 | 176 |
I, once Allison Ashton-Baker, once a member of a prestigious, wealthy sorority at an exclusive educational institution on the planet Earth, once a scion of the envied upper classes on my world, was helpless, and on Gor, a manacled, hooded, coffled slave! "Oh!" I cried, suddenly pelted with gravel. |
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| 12 | 67 |
Pets are not taught to speak, but I learned to do so; the mechanical translators, and Lord Grendel, and some others, were helpful; and, after the dislocations of an insurrection, and the downfall of Agamemnon, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, former Theocrat of the World, that world, learning of t... |
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| 20 | 213 |
"I am to be the Ubara of a hundred cities, and then, later, when the planet is properly unified and organized, the Ubara of all Gor". |
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| 29 | 184 |
If Kurii should win Gor, they might indeed make her the Ubara of the planet, but, of course, they would not do so. |
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| 30 | 114 |
"She thinks she would be the Ubara of the planet?" he asked. |
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| 31 | 119 |
We will give her the title Ubara of Gor, and I will govern the planet, under the authority of Agamemnon, Theocrat of the World, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One". |
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| 35 | 72 |
The Kurii would then have their planet, all of Gor, with all its resources, from which, if they wished, they might seek other worlds. |
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| 35 | 82 |
"But would not Kurii, given their dispositions, and such, then contest Gor amongst themselves?" "Yes," he said, "and then with weapons of enormous power, such as might turn the world into a cinder, such as might alter the axis of the planet itself". |
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| 37 | 215 |
Consider the terrible centrality of sensation in that brain, the enormity of ambition which might linger, the rage at the loss of its body, the force of a focused, extraordinary rationality, unwilling to accept compromise or limitation, a will determined to have its way, a ruthless mind resolved to ... |
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| 25 | 350 |
I knew little about sleen, but I did know it was the planet's most adept, reliable, tenacious tracker. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 45 | 66 |
Both Priest-Kings and Kurii possess technologies which are well beyond those available now on our home planet. |
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| 45 | 95 |
"With so much at stake," I said, "in effect, a planet, for Kurii would not long be likely to peaceably share a world with Priest-Kings or any others, and surely Priest-Kings would realize the danger of admitting a technologically advanced, aggressive species like the Kurii to their world, it seems p... |
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| 61 | 198 |
It was hard to imagine Kurii ceasing to hunger for the green fields of Gor, and it was hard to imagine Priest-Kings voluntarily sharing their world, even its surface, with so aggressive, dangerous, and territorial a life form as the destroyer of a planet and the maker of steel worlds. |
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| 2 | 7 |
"But surely you do not believe all this about another world, another planet, one secretly in our own system, shielded by the sun, concealed by gravitational adjustments, an Antichthon, a Counter-Earth?" "It is hard to know what to believe," said Paula. |
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| 4 | 32 |
"Surely he does not expect us to believe that there is such a place, supposedly another planet, supposedly another world!" "Your serious training will take place in one of several houses," he said. |
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| 7 | 261 |
I would learn the gravity of Gor, for it was on this world I now was, was less than that of Earth, the planet being somewhat smaller, though it would have more land surface than Earth, as it possessed only one mighty ocean, not two, that ocean being restless, turbulent, gleaming Thassa, the sea. |
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| 7 | 311 |
"You are now a slave girl, a barbarian slave, on the planet Gor," he said. |
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| 8 | 368 |
"They have no planet?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 373 |
"How could a planet be ruined?" I asked. |
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| 34 | 120 |
Who would place at the disposal of an enemy the resources of a planet, who would grant them an island, a platform, from which, in time, to launch a great attack, a mighty armada, against them?" "How is it," I asked, "that Priest-Kings have permitted humans on their world?" "Gods," said Kurik, "have ... |
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| 61 | 177 |
Surely that house had provided him and his fellows with a haven of concealment and support on Gor, and a base of operations in the vicinity of the most populous city in the northern hemisphere of the planet. |
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| 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. |
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| 69 | 199 |
I was captured, and brought to the planet Gor. |
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| 33 | 619 |
They are influenced by a number of things, such as the primary of the planet, the size of the planet, the period and nature of its rotation, the size and number of the planet's moons, winds and storms, and the configuration of coastlines and tidal basins. |
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| 1 | 9 |
I am a slave girl, one of many, on the planet Gor. |
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| 1 | 13 |
This planet, as I understand it, is in the same system of worlds as my former world, one called "Terra," or "Earth". |
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| 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. |
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| 10 | 206 |
How well aware I was then that I was on the planet, Gor. |
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| 2 | 145 |
How might one separate idle rumor from sober truth; how might one tell fact from fable, fear, and fancy? This had much to do with the technology laws of the Priest-Kings, who, it seemed, recognized the danger, both to themselves and other forms of life, of sharing a planet with human beings, bellige... |
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