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Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	81	For themselves, particularly among the Lower Castes, they often have a real name and what is called a use-name.	10
4	82	Often only the closest relatives know the real name.	10
4	83	On the level of the First Knowledge, it is maintained that knowing the real name gives one a power over a person, a capacity to use that name in spells and insidious magical practices.	10
4	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.	10
8	32	The real purpose of the "sacrifice to the Priest-Kings" was probably to remove possible claimants to the throne of Ar and thereby strengthen their own political position.	10
20	55	The ring was real, and I was awake, and there was a Counter-Earth, and the girl, Talena.	10

Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	91	I wondered if it were a use-name, or his real name.	10
3	92	Members of low castes often call themselves by a use-name, reserving the real name for intimates and friends, to protect it against capture by a sorcerer or worker of spells who might use it to do them harm.	10
3	93	Somehow I sensed that Zosk was his real name.	10

Book 3. (5 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	28	There is a real Cabot, of course.	10
12	129	"That is the evidence of real skill," said Sarm.	10
25	109	In a vast low case, on the floor of which apparently grew real grass, I saw a pair of shaggy, long-horned bosk grazing, and in the same case but in a different corner was a small herd, no more than five adult animals, a proud male and four does, of tabuk, the single-horned, golden Gorean antelope.	10
27	76	For a moment I could not believe that it was real or alive.	10
35	133	"But in the end," said he, "life is as real as death and there will be a return of the ultimate rhythms, and a new explosion will cast forth the primitive particles and we shall have another turn of the wheel, and someday, sometime, in eons which defy the calculations even of Priest-Kings, there may...	10

Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	132	He was used to girls whose culture had prepared them for the very real possibility of slavery, though perhaps not a slavery as abject as that of being a wench of Tuchuks.	10
9	5	There were apparently two reasons, the official reason and the real reason.	10
9	6	The official reason, proclaimed by Phanius Turmus, the Administrator, and others high in the government, was that those of the Wagon Peoples were unworthy to be entertained in the administrative palace; the real reason, apparently seldom proclaimed by anyone, was that the true power in Turia lay act...	10
10	352	The girls jeered and cursed them, which compliment they received with good humor and pointed observations on the girls' real or imaginary flaws.	10
10	524	"Kamras has no real wish to kill you," I said.	10
12	282	"In a short time," he was telling her, "you will see what a real woman can do".	10
19	21	Suddenly there seemed to me a real possibility in Harold's plan.	10

Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	111	At this a real growl of anger coursed through the onlookers.	10
8	16	Eat from your hand indeed!" "I thought it a real coup," I said.	10
11	257	"It seemed to me very real".	10
19	14	On the seat of the wagon, which was drawn by a horned tharlarion, sat the driver and the Scribe whom I had known as Caprus, whose real name, as I had been informed, was Philemon of Tyros, an island some hundreds of pasangs west of Port Kar.	10
19	179	I myself was startled, for I had seen the girl before and knew her somewhat; this was not her real person; the crowd, of course, would not know that.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	76	My father made his fortune in real estate in Chicago.	10
12	704	Meanwhile the real treasure was escaping.	10
16	279	And there is nothing like a lash or two to make it quite clear to her that she is indeed a slave, that her bondage is quite real.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	750	On Gor, for better or for worse, the reality in which a woman, terrified, might find herself is not altogether unlike that of her most feared dreams on Earth, but on Gor it is not a dream; it is as real as the steel of slave bracelets and the commanding touch of a master.	10
22	694	She lives in terror that she might meet one in real life.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	49	Prior to his winning the swimming he had won talmits for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood, some fifty feet high, smoothed and peeled; for jumping the "crevice," actually a broad jump, on level land, where marks are made with strings, to the point at which the back heel strikes the ear...	10
18	132	I wondered if they knew his real intent had been elsewhere.	10

Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	333	Alyena did not understand that the discipline under which slaves are kept must be real, whatever the planet.	10
5	797	Was this so fearful for a woman, I wondered, for a real woman, a natural woman, a feminine woman? Could they truly believe biology, and millions of years of evolution, were socially constructed artifacts that might be swept aside with impunity, without consequences, in order to promote self-serving ...	10
9	86	"More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari.	10
11	256	"But did it not seem real to you?" I asked.	10
13	432	On Gor they are rescued from the political and sexual deserts of Earth; branded, collared, dressed revealingly, they find themselves for the first time in their lives, though embonded, far more free than they could ever have believed possible on Earth; gone is the ennui, the vacuity; on Gor they fin...	10
21	334	Was it real? Is it some sort of illusion, or mirage? Then, for a brief moment, I saw again the cylinder of steel, and then, again, it was gone, lost in the blackness of the driven sand.	10
21	335	It is real, I thought.	10
21	340	It is real.	10

Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	182	It is such a strange dream, so real.	10
2	779	I had not dreamed such men could exist! I had never felt so feminine, so stirred, so alive and real, as in their presence! For the first time in my life I was pleased to be a woman.	10
9	991	It is honest and real.	10
9	2119	This power is not only symbolic but real.	10
9	2120	And the lash, too, is real.	10
19	53	The dream had seemed real.	10
22	75	I do not think the longing of men is an oddity in the genetic history of a species; I think there is a reciprocity which has been intricately evolved; this desire, this longing for a beautiful slave, for a beautiful female, who stands to him as slave to master, which is universal in glandularly norm...	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	230	Such things, the whip, the collar, are real.	10
3	577	"Has it never occurred to you," said the girl in the red pull-over, "that you might be of interest to a man, real interest, and that a man might like to own you?" "Own me?" said the blonde.	10
3	1014	I saw them look at his whip, but there was no real comprehension of it in their eyes.	10
22	124	"Otherwise I might be in real danger".	10
24	196	There is a joy in this, and a liberating honesty, and openness; it is natural that this be felt as exciting, as genuine, as authentic, as real, as significant, as true, indeed, as profoundly and thrillingly true.	10
32	173	"What can compare," it asked, "with the joy of real victory? Of true victory? When one has risked one's life openly and then, after a hard-fought contest, has one's enemy at one's feet, lacerated, and bleeding, and dying, and can then tear him in victory and feast in his body, what can compare with ...	10
38	217	"I had no real choice," she said.	10

Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	91	"When I want a slave girl," I said, "I will have a real slave girl, not a free woman pretending to be a slave girl".	10
6	79	In that sense, I suppose, one might think of Schendi, though it has no real meaning of its own, as having an etiological relationship to a word meaning 'Victory'.	10
12	216	"Is Evelyn Ellis your real name?" I asked, smiling.	10
12	355	I thought she could probably survive in a paga tavern, under real conditions, not those artificial conditions under which she had served in the tavern of Pembe, the Golden Kailiauk, though doubtless she would be often beaten in the beginning.	10
32	486	It is interesting that considerable attention, upon Earth, should be directed toward relatively minor, but certainly serious and real, threats to human life, such as the inhalation of, or the ingestion of, certain substances, while the ill effects of a pervasive pathological conditioning program, wh...	10
34	364	"Never have I been so alive, so excited, and so vital, or have I felt so significant and real, as when I have been a slave.	10

Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	383	The whips here, of course, are of real leather, and the chains of honest iron.	10
12	218	"Do you think that any real slave girl would even have dared to think of acting as I did?" I said nothing.	10
13	179	Indeed, the only real difference between them is their function, the one being used to tether tharlarion and the other slaves.	10
30	65	This is presumably a function of such things as its actual restraint, which is quite real; its message to her that she is an animal, a slave; and its making clear to her, by a device, such as a bracelet, a brand or collar, what is the order of nature, who it is who controls her and who it is whom sh...	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	294	"But it is a real collar," she said.	10
14	31	At such times, for my amusement and interest, I occasionally frequented some of the dock markets, where, though cheap girls tend to be sold there, one may occasionally see a real beauty being vended.	10

Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	434	But I think that there is no real competitor to the collar.	10
20	219	Each is a part of him, and each is real.	10
21	37	It is, you see, a real whip, and one that can be used on me.	10
21	40	It is a real whip.	10
21	507	These are not inauthentic dissemblings; they are a real witness to the slave's terror of the authority and power of the free woman.	10

Book 17. (15 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	810	The story, then, unanticipated, each event as real as any other, unfolds as it was lived.	10
1	857	"It is only that they regard both as real".	10
1	1224	"The portion of the skin pertinent to the dream, or vision," said Kog, "is clearly distinguished from the portion of the skin which purports to be concerned with real events.	10
8	427	"You cannot be serious!" She then learned that the intention of the iron with respect to her body was quite real.	10
11	181	Slavery, as you will learn, is a very real institution, and, further, it is one in which you are profoundly implicated.	10
13	375	"It was largely due to her, then," I said, "that you wore the attractive garments you did, when you were stripped for the buyers at the house of Ram Seibar?" "Yes," she said, "and she even prescribed that the pearls I wore must be synthetic, as being more befitting than real pearls a girl in my posi...	10
13	464	Were self-serving and self-seeking to be no longer permitted to me? Must I now live not for myself but for others? My reality was now different, but seemingly a thousand times more real than what I had hitherto taken to be reality.	10
13	1167	I have learned tonight that being a woman is a real thing to be.	10
13	1170	It is something real and important in itself, something precious and wonderful".	10
13	1462	Properly understood the nonblue is every bit as real, and is even more extensive and variegated than the blue".	10
13	1469	Both are regarded as being equally real, equally positive, so to speak".	10
13	1511	Both notions are equally positive, both properties are conceived of as being equally real".	10
14	1301	"It is not a real beast".	10
14	1302	"It is real," I said.	10
17	695	To be sure, the danger of which she spoke was quite real.	10

Book 18. (11 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	317	To the red savage the medicine world is very real.	10
8	37	"It seems, now, that there may be a real possibility for peace".	10
14	204	How miserable and frustrated they might be, to see a real man, and, their womanhood awakening, to know that they, Waniyanpi females, must continue, as though nothing had happened, to devote themselves to gardening and hypocrisy.	10
16	132	"Real distress," she said.	10
16	182	Who can measure the horizons of her heart? Few things, I suspect, are more real than those which seem most intangible.	10
22	237	Truth is not terrible; it is merely real".	10
30	56	The most successful belief systems normally have two significant properties in common; first, they have nothing to do with the real world and, secondly, they claim to have a great deal to do with it.	10
30	58	The real role of such belief systems, thus, is not to tell people about the world, for they are actually irrelevant to the world, but to supply them with psychological and social benefits.	10
30	144	It was almost as though Hci did not see the man, almost as though he was looking through him, almost as though the very real man, and the physical point of the lance, of sharp bronze, were little more than tokens or emblems of something he feared far more.	10
32	14	"They are as real as you or I," I said.	10
41	10	"It is real, Tatankasa," said Hci.	10

Book 19. (25 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	703	They are too deep, too real! But what if one should think them, and what if one should live them! I did not know what to do, or think.	10
3	883	What a significant and real thing it is in this culture to be a man or a woman.	10
4	50	This omission seemed puzzling to me, from what I had learned of Gor, particularly in the case of a free woman of so lofty a station as a Tatrix, but I saw no real reason for objecting, particularly in the warm weather of Corcyrus.	10
5	187	On the other hand, symbolic considerations aside, it must be noted that the chain is quite real.	10
6	126	Who, in these days, in a real world, could take anything like honor seriously? "Perhaps," granted Drusus Rencius.	10
6	468	But on Gor alternatives, real alternatives, slaves, were available.	10
6	505	"It is like that," she said, "only it is real".	10
8	540	Even though I myself was surely not a slave my life, I knew, was a thousand times richer for having realized that such things existed, for having seen such basic, deep, human and real things.	10
19	220	Certainly he had not permitted me to relate to him, in the least, in the inhibitory modalities of dignity and respect; accordingly, I had found myself relating to him in a deep, real, primitive, sexual, natural, biological manner, in a manner certainly not that of a free woman, but rather of a slave...	10
29	293	Yet never before, too, had my femaleness felt so deeply real.	10
30	533	Perhaps, in a sense, then, I had been Sheila, but, obviously, there must have been another as well, the real Sheila, so to speak.	10
30	541	These were times when the real Sheila was abroad in the palace, and doubtless attending to the governance of Corcyrus.	10
30	546	These feelings, it now seemed clear to me, would doubtless have been the results of the acts and policies of the true Sheila, the real Tatrix.	10
30	568	Thus, instead of the matter of Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus, supposedly being concluded with an impalement on the walls of Argentum, following which Ligurious and the real Sheila, under new identities, and doubtless with salvaged riches, might proceed almost wherever they might please, an intensiv...	10
30	570	How unfortunate these events had turned out, at least for the real Sheila, now helpless in the bracelets of Hassan, the Slave Hunter.	10
31	553	So what interest had Miles of Argentum in me? Surely he did not think that I might be the real Sheila.	10
32	176	He was not yet ready to see that she had become real; it seemed he desperately wished to keep her as some remote, cherished illusion.	10
33	164	"There are other differences, too," said a man, "subtle differences, but real differences".	10
33	767	"Some say that they have no matter," said a man, "except that they are real".	10
33	775	"Forgive me, Master," she said, "but Earth is real, I assure you.	10
33	779	"That Earth is real is in the second knowledge," said one of the men, a fellow wearing the yellow of the Builders, a high caste.	10
33	807	Testing my power I found it real.	10
36	192	"It is, at any rate, real," I assured him.	10
36	943	"Do you think I could not tell you were playing some sort of game?" "My arousal was real!" I said, startled.	10
36	1485	He used the collar tie and, mercifully, with real thongs.	10

Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	845	How real and alive she was, the slave.	10
2	1434	"It seems, thus," I said, "that I must refrain from responding to your needs, real and urgent though they may be".	10
15	90	Perhaps if she did it well she could fool men; perhaps, if she did it well, she could boldly carry off the pretense; perhaps, if she did it well, she would be accepted almost as though she were a real leader, a true leader.	10
16	499	To be sure, had the actresses actually been free women, in real life, it would have been unthinkable.	10
18	499	The principle involved is that certain surfaces are reflected in such a way that the observer is led to misinterpret his visual data; for example, he is led to take a reflected surface, a mirrored surface, in a given location, for an actual or real surface in a different location; he normally does n...	10

Book 21. (16 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	293	Had we been using real axes, the handles armed with iron, I might have finished him several times.	10
4	536	How beautiful Feiqa was! What incredible power she exercised, though only a helpless slave, over men! How she pleased them and made them scream with pleasure! How incredibly basic, how fundamental, how real she was! I then felt a sudden, poignant sorrow for the women of Earth.	10
13	319	In the collar they find a world more real than they knew in their robes and veils.	10
21	108	"You do not think there is any real danger?" I asked.	10
25	301	It was something else, almost indefinable, but very real, about them, which marked them as slaves, something which seemed to say, "We are slaves, Masters.	10
25	1192	After that they might become of real interest to a man.	10
25	1370	At the moment, of course, she had no real idea of what female needs could be.	10
25	1384	She had as yet, of course, as a free woman, as I have mentioned, no real idea of what female needs could be.	10
25	1468	"I think the real reason," she said, "under everything, as you may have suspected, is that I was driven here, almost helplessly, a woman in desperate need of love, daring to enter this terrible place, but one where I knew men were, by my desire to meet a kindly man, by my loneliness".	10
25	1474	"You spoke of a 'real reason,'" I said, "that having to do with your need of love, and such.	10
25	2118	"I was a real little bitch," she laughed.	10
25	2232	Nature is real.	10
25	2247	Compared to real love, of any sort, in its many varieties, gold is as abundant as sand".	10
26	1472	"For example, it is one thing to be subject to the whip, and to know that that subjection is quite real, that the master can, and will, whip you, and well, if you are not pleasing, and something else to be actually whipped".	10
26	1483	She must know that they exist, and that, for her, they are real possibilities.	10
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...	10

Book 22. (24 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	48	They are real, and their needs are real.	10
1	105	If what faced me in the mirror was not a real woman in some contemporary, transient, idiosyncratic political sense, it was at least something biologically far deeper, and a thousand times more real, a true woman.	10
1	92	What was that thing she wore? What sort of garment could that be, so delicious and brief, so excruciatingly and uncompromisingly feminine? Surely no real woman, hostile, unloving, demanding, shrill and frustrated, zealous in her conformance to stereotypes, attempting desperately to find satisfaction...	10
1	98	What sort of woman, of her own free will, would put on such a garment? Surely no real woman.	10
1	100	Surely only a terrible woman, a low woman, a shameful, wicked, worthless woman, a reproach to her entire sex, one with depths and needs antedating her century, one with needs not indexed to political orthodoxies, one with needs older and deeper, and more real and profound, more ancient and marvelous...	10
1	104	Perhaps what I saw was not a real woman in some invented, artificial, contemptible, grotesque modern sense, but I thought she was a woman nonetheless and one in some even more profound sense, so small, so soft and curved, and desiring, and vulnerable, and helpless and needful, a sense not indexed to...	10
3	105	"And there would not be one man there, one real man," she said, "who, seeing you half naked in your jewelry and veils, would not want to put a chain on you, and own you".	10
3	185	Men had always, it seemed, at least since puberty, been more disturbing, and interesting and attractive to me than they should have been to a modern woman, or a real woman.	10
3	192	Beyond this, after that night, long ago, in my bedroom, that night in which I had admitted to myself my real nature, though I had denied it often enough since, my interest in men had been considerably deepened.	10
3	193	After my confession to myself, kneeling before my vanity in the darkness of my room, they had suddenly become a thousand times more real and frightening to me.	10
3	214	But I was real, and was as I was, in this time.	10
4	29	But I knew that I was in pain, sharp, miserable pain, fiery, burning pain, put on me by a man, and that that was real.	10
4	31	That, too, was real.	10
6	28	I had now learned that there was such a world, and that its chains were real.	10
6	338	Too, in this culture, where there were such men, I did not think there was any real danger of susceptibility to the debilitating, antibiological pathologies of Earth.	10
6	552	It made my bondage much more real to me.	10
6	629	I had not thought much about such things, in a real, or practical, sense, until now, now that I was outside of the house.	10
10	259	How could he have known that? "To a discerning eye," he smiled, "it was evident, in your subsequent movements, and certain tiny, fleeting expressions, though these were subtle things, as you were inwardly relieved, pleased at how well hidden, you thought, remained the real depth and urgency of your ...	10
10	548	This same tiny measure of protection, of course, puts her in much greater danger from her real master, for he, observing her, seeing her kneeling beautifully before him, can also delay in his considerations as to her suitable exploitations.	10
11	219	Perhaps the reason such dances are seldom, if ever, seen on Gor, is that Goreans would not be likely to regard them as being "real dance".	10
11	879	Out there there were men, real men, many of whom excited and stirred me, even in my virgin's belly.	10
31	34	Happily, Tupita did most of the real cooking, while I mostly watched and fetched.	10
33	250	In any event, such things are real.	10
34	809	But in any event, dear sisters, whether you long for the collar, or fear it, it is real.	10

Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	509	I am upon occasion too hot-headed, too quick to act, too ready to respond to any insult or slight, real or imagined.	10
6	397	Needless to say, in real life, to the disappointment, and sometimes chagrin, of the blushing, bashful heroes, this denouement often fails to materialize.	10
6	425	His reality exceeds the myths; it is a reality which is darker and more dangerous than the myths; but it is also more glorious and more real.	10
7	35	The real attendant was probably upstairs in the paga room, enjoying cakes and Bazi tea, a breakfast popular with Goreans on holidays.	10
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.	10
9	471	"Such as you?" "Yes!" "Yet, even so," I said, "I suspect that there are senses of slavery, and aspects of slavery, that one can never fully fathom or anticipate until the experience is real for one".	10
21	31	Though she would know that she was on a galley and moving with the current on the Vosk, thus west, she had no real idea as to where she was or what was to be done with her.	10
21	663	The man with the sword is at least swayable; he is at least human and real.	10
22	83	I feel so much myself, and so real, and female! Will not other women, I wonder, resent and hate me that it was I who was put at the prow and not they?" "Perhaps," I said.	10

Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	702	I mention that they may once have been from Earth because that is a real possibility, having to do with the slave trade.	10
16	90	"But," I said, "I think the only real hope of escape from the delta lies not with units but with individuals, or small groups of such, individuals who might with fortune, and with skill and stealth, elude rencers, the surveillance of tarn scouts, and the patrols of Cos.	10
19	1161	"Yet her chains are chains, and they are real, and they hold her helplessly, and perfectly," she said, head down.	10
19	1557	"Yet the whip is real," I said.	10
20	77	She, a free woman, had no real comprehension, at least as yet, of what it might be to be examined as a slave.	10
36	123	I frankly doubt that this is the real reason.	10
43	194	This unspoken recognition of one another, startling to both, had been exact and real, unquestionable.	10
43	196	This was as real and perfect as the relationship of a lock and its key.	10
49	15	Perhaps only those closest to him know the real truth of the matter.	10

Book 25. (16 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	100	I suspected that he was at worst a dupe, a trusting man, perhaps even one of considerable talent, who had found himself, through no real fault of his own, a pawn in games of state, games in which there seemed to be no rules other than survival and victory.	10
9	434	In those long years I remembered my time in bondage, and that it had been, in spite of its terrors and labors, the most real, and the happiest, of my life.	10
12	71	It is a potent symbol, but, too, of course, it is a real whip.	10
13	74	In the end few things are real, perhaps the weight and glitter of gold, the movement and nature of weapons, a slave at one's feet, and, too, perhaps in spite of all, if we will have it so, defiant, honor, responsibility, courage, discipline, such things, such baubles, such treasures.	10
17	26	He feels the world as alive and real.	10
17	376	"And from the fact that most magicians may not do real magic one should not infer that therefore some do?" "That is it," I said.	10
17	381	"That there is real magic!" "Why do you say that?" I asked.	10
17	393	"Not by what you seem to mean by 'real magic'," I said, "whatever that might be".	10
17	413	"The trunk was real magic," he said, "as we saw it carried on, kept off the floor, and opened, and shown empty!" "In the case of the trunk," I said, "you will recall that it was carried on, and opened in a certain way, in a certain order, and then that it was closed in a certain order, as well".	10
17	470	"Similarly," I said, "if there were such a thing as "real magic" in your sense, whatever that might be, the world would presumably be much different than it is".	10
18	19	"Getting one to start with is undoubtedly the real trick," he said.	10
18	596	"That is not his real name," I said.	10
18	597	"What is his real name?" asked Marcus.	10
22	99	To be sure, there was no real point in being angry with her.	10
22	186	At any rate, it seldom seems inclined to make any adequate provision for the satisfaction of these very real, and very profound, needs.	10
25	408	"You seemed so tender, so real, so helpless!" he said.	10

Book 26. (26 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	550	I was here something, something very real, something as real as the living rock about me, as real as the bars of my cell.	10
11	853	To be sure, I had emerged as something real, not mythical, something which found itself in a very real world, a world in which I learned I was a certain sort of thing, vulnerable, precious and beautiful, and not at all the same as certain other sorts of things which were quite as real as I, and the ...	10
11	1390	Things here were quite real, as real as the stone flagging beneath my knees, as real as the mark in my left thigh.	10
10	581	But where was the end of this? Were the older ones real either? Could it be that the older ones, too, were waiting? Were they embarrassed to admit this? Were the parents real? Had they learned, in their longer lives, secrets they refused to reveal? It is a terrible thing to look behind a mask and se...	10
13	481	What manner of place was this? How could it be that my hands were tied behind my back, how could it be that I could not straighten up, that my head was held down, how could it be that there was a collar on my neck! How far away were the malls! But, yet, too, how vanished here were the confusions, th...	10
16	287	Did they sense the danger we might pose to them, if they were weak, or permissive, or lenient? Was that why they were as they were? Was that why they put us in collars and kept us at their feet, because they knew us so well? But how could we be women if they were not men? Or had they profited from s...	10
2	145	The chain was too real.	10
5	95	I had seen a world much more real outside the wall.	10
6	156	But if I had, here, in this place, such possibilities seemed much more real to me.	10
7	474	No longer did I then, in those moments, care for the danger, or whether I cried out, or if he cried out, or about the guards, or who might enter the garden! Nothing mattered, nothing was real but the feeling, the sensations, the moment! I only then became aware of the might of him, too, as though mo...	10
7	812	Such things, always real, are not here concealed.	10
8	24	The dream seemed very real, I thought, the lengthy training sessions, the kennels, and such.	10
8	184	Certain things now became very real.	10
8	196	The stone, the close-set bars, the long, looming, tiered vistas beyond them, seemed very real.	10
8	208	I had not been returned to my former condition of meaninglessness, that of nothingness, in which I, denied to my real self, it forbidden to me, must pretend to false identities, must conform to uncongenial stereotypes imposed upon me from the outside.	10
8	209	Here I was free to be what I was! Here I might feel, truly feel! Here one need not live as if indoors, sheltered from sunlight and rain, here one might look upon truth as it was in itself, not as it might be distorted in the labyrinths of prescribed protocols, here one might touch real things, like ...	10
8	538	I thought that we were all very real.	10
10	571	We were all told we were real, of course, but when we inquired as to what we were, really, we were met with evasive answers; I suppose we were just supposed to know; when we went to touch those supposed realities, our hands passed through them.	10
10	574	But we knew we were real somehow, something beyond the masks, the roles.	10
10	592	It was an identity as real as that of a dog or pig.	10
13	37	It seemed, somehow, so very real, and fulfilling to me.	10
13	482	I was now something quite real.	10
13	485	I was now something quite real, as unimportant as it might be.	10
16	282	How exciting, how glorious, how joyful, how real, how meaningful it must be to be a male on a world such as this, I thought, a world in which they had such power, at least over such as I.	10
16	289	It was here that someone, deeper and more real than names, had found herself.	10
35	40	Truth, the stone wall, the cliff, are not enemies; but they are real.	10

Book 27. (18 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	208	What would my ideological sisters say if they could see me here, in Ar, a naked slave! I am pleased to be such! Let them cry out in anger, in scorn, in contempt! I would not give the peel of a larma for all that they might think! But see if you, dear, righteous sisters, would behave any differently,...	10
28	390	"Perhaps as real as mountains and storms, as real as flowers, as tarns and sleen".	10
1	57	Her age now then, one supposes, would be least misleadingly, and most informatively, understood as that which it seems to be, and that which, in a very real sense, it actually is.	10
4	377	Too, there were women in those days, true women, and two sexes, real sexes, not one blurred, androgynous pseudo-sex, and they were harmoniously interrelated, fitted closely and beautifully to one another as male and female, each inordinately unique and precious, not set at odds by the disappointed, ...	10
4	484	Surely she had gone too far! Was she feminine? She must not be feminine! Surely it would be wrong for her to be such, to be so female, so simply, so radically, so vulnerably female! Was such not a mere social artifact? But what if it were not a mere social artifact? What if it were something very di...	10
6	85	Too, though such things tend to be of no real consequence on this world, there would be, at least in this city, papers on her.	10
11	401	Her collar, for example, was quite real.	10
11	778	So many people blindfold themselves with words; so few look upon the world as it is, radiant and real, with its own nature.	10
12	83	Even a tiny tear at a seam, she knew, could earn her a beating, but a real beating, not just the two or three strokes that might awaken a girl from a faint.	10
13	547	At one moment a woman is free and priceless, and then, in another moment, suddenly, she becomes a very practical, tangible commodity, something very real and very factual, something with a specific value, like any other piece of merchandise.	10
16	307	"I wanted a real slave".	10
19	756	Here, for the first time, I am something, something exact and real.	10
22	436	How beautiful and exciting, how real, is this world, she thought.	10
22	452	She held the handles of the pitcher, hard, as though for support, as though for a renewed contact with what was solid and real.	10
24	537	Had it been real? Had it truly taken place? Had she once been there, actually lived there, in such a place? Could it be? She listened to the music outside the area of preparation, the cries of the men.	10
27	580	Now it is real to you".	10
28	388	"They are real then?" asked Mirus.	10
28	408	She was now, at last, something societally meaningful, something actual, something understood, something accepted and real, something prized, something with an actual, clear value, a slave girl.	10

Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	130	At last she finds she is real, quite real, and in two ways, one biological, and one societal and cultural.	10
1	109	Let them laugh and fight, and drink and quarrel, and seek their slaves in conquered cities and taverns, and chain them and put them to their feet, and not inquire into the dark and mighty processes which have bred them, which have made them so real, and necessary.	10
1	118	Life is very real where they live it, at the edge of a sword.	10
1	688	It seemed one of the most real things she had ever witnessed in her life.	10
78	25	She has no real conception of the haughtiness and power of the Gorean free woman, in her pride, in her regalia, her robes and veils.	10
79	61	It then is only she who knows that about her neck, unseen, quite invisible, but as real as steel, is the collar of a slave".	10

Book 29. (4 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	279	Indeed, legal bondage is an institutionalization of, and an enhancement of, a natural relationship, the male who, in a very real sense, owns, and the female who, in a very real sense, is owned, as much as a bow or spear.	10
24	136	Many Goreans, particularly those limited to the First Knowledge, have "use names" to conceal their real names, for fear the real names might somehow be used against them, perhaps in spells.	10
13	64	Free women take part in the commercial life of Gorean polities as men do, owning and managing businesses, lending coin, negotiating loans, organizing caravans, investing capital, conservatively, or risking it variously, in real estate, voyages, commodities, and such, in translating goods about to fi...	10
23	138	The chain is real, and, whether she is pleased or not, it is on her.	10

Book 30. (5 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1340	They are, however, undeniably real.	10
5	370	Until now I did not realize he was a real person.	10
28	195	How meaningful, and warm, and real it makes me feel! I want them to look upon it, with zest and pleasure.	10
33	140	"No, Master," she said, squirming, "but now it is real".	10
36	568	He shook his head, twice, as though to assure himself that what he saw was real.	10

Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	75	Here women such as I find ourselves a very real part of a very real world.	10
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.	10
5	54	We are as natural and real a part of your world as the unpolluted air you breathe.	10
7	48	To such an organism could biology be irrelevant? Surely templates must exist in the human organism, as in other forms of life, perhaps subtler and vaster, but just as real.	10
7	435	And yet I suspected that a life lay before me, with all its unknowns and perils, which was a thousand times more real than the structured banalities and tediums to which I had been taught to aspire.	10
10	800	These were so natural, so open, so innocent, so honest, so real.	10
15	67	It was real, and fastened on me.	10
18	489	"It spoke to you of things which stirred you, things for which you longed, but which you feared, spoke to you of a distant, or forgotten, world, one a thousand times more real, I suspect, than that which you knew.	10
18	761	Thus, in a very real sense, the slave requires permission to speak.	10
26	203	In bondage, she comes closest to the natural woman, and farthest from an engineered product of cultural conditioning, whichever product, whichever manufactured article, it might be, given the particular culture; she becomes a more natural woman, richer, deeper, more profound, ever more real, ever mo...	10

Book 32. (8 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	32	But it is not a dream It is real.	10
5	4	How real it was! How simple it was to see, once looked upon, once dared to be looked upon.	10
6	289	There is no real difference.	10
17	22	How it betrayed me with its health and need, with its eagerness, its responsiveness, its helplessness, and vitality! I must be at war with it! How could I be myself in a collar? And how could I be myself other than in a collar! In my heart I knew I belonged in the collar, but I was determined to den...	10
25	234	But the real reason the slave strives to be pleasing, fully pleasing, to her master, is because he is her master and she is a slave.	10
37	139	It was as though some image, some proud, contrived, clay encasement of a reality had finally broken apart, separating, revealing, hitherto hidden within, something quite unlike the image, or encasement, something not hard but soft, not artificial but real, not false but true, and needful.	10
50	342	Is it not part of the pleasures of the mastery, finding amusement in keeping us in ignorance, in frustrating our desire to know? Why should we know, we are slaves! It is a small thing, but it is very real.	10
50	418	But what then could be the real reason for the isolation of these slaves? The two guards who had been stationed at the head of the stairway, leading upward from the shore, withdrew, presumably returning to their post.	10

Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	88	In the villages hunger is real, death is real".	10
13	459	Yet he had spoken as though this fiction might have had ribs of iron and claws of steel, might be as real as ore and fire.	10
13	525	"I am a slave! I did not know what it was to be biologically real, what it was to be wholly female.	10
20	467	Such a man would no longer look upon such as she as some distant and unobtainable object, a goddess, a denizen of remote stars, something far above and beyond him, but now as something quite real, something which she truly was, a live, breathing female, a lovely prey animal at hand, an animal design...	10
29	475	Had I detected a thrill of submission in those simple words? Had the radical sexual dimorphism of the human species suddenly become real to her? Did she understand it at last? Did she sense the possible fulfillments, and liberation, of the collar, the joy of a sensed, unalloyed, apprehended truth, a...	10
31	87	"In the villages they are not real.	10
45	98	"But the iron dragon is real," said Pertinax.	10

Book 34. (21 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
58	22	Does nature not, in its thoughtless processes, in its blind, dark game, favor the organ sensitive to light, the organ sensitive to sound, the capacity to discriminate tastes and odors, the capacity to grasp, to feel, to think? Does it not, without thought or heart, fashion the wings of the tarn, the...	10
1	404	Perhaps it was merely to let me know that I had not been forgotten, or to let me know I was still under "consideration," or, perhaps, merely, to let me know that, in a very real sense, I was not free, but theirs, and that they could apprehend me when they wished, and do with me what they pleased.	10
2	13	Data is real.	10
2	71	"If Gor is real," I said, "let it show itself, openly!" "It, or its custodians, may not care to do so," she said.	10
6	61	Could it be, I wondered, that I belonged so? Could it be that I was a slave? I do not mean, of course, in some legal sense, but in some far more profound sense, a sense in which an explicit legal imposition of servitude would be little more than a technicality, however fearful a technicality, which ...	10
6	480	Might one not have hoped to don it again, and return to our familiar reality? Was not such a hope real as long as it lay there, even outside our bars? But then it was gone! We had nothing to wear now save what we had been given.	10
7	78	"Surely you do not believe that was a real ship," I said.	10
7	212	It seemed the clearest thing to me, the surface of the ramp, cold, hard, rippled, the most real thing.	10
8	286	It is real, and tenacious.	10
9	158	I saw it now for what it was, what it betokened, saw it as something real, something frightening.	10
13	133	Why not? One supposes that a scent in a pan of water, the tone of a flute, the color of a simple thing, like that of a spoon handle or the door of a shed, may serve an end that is very real, if not practical.	10
19	9	Yet how real it was! Had I ever lived so intensely, so explicitly, so fully? I felt the chain.	10
28	186	How could things proceed more smoothly? And consider the absurdity of the name, 'Tenrik', obviously reminiscent of his real name, 'Kurik'! Could he not do better than that? And he alleges to be of Siba, he, of Victoria! Siba is another of the towns on the Vosk, like Victoria.	10
30	326	"Now," he said, turning about, reaching for the curtain straps, "I will see what a real woman is like".	10
30	425	I did know that the name on the collar was not his real name.	10
31	69	"Your collar, I beg your collar, your real collar, your true collar, not that on me now, not some false collar, not some dissembling collar, not one of duplicity and subterfuge! I want to wear the true collar of my master! Put slave claim on me!" "You would be mine?" he said.	10
49	73	Merchants, with their connections amongst houses in diverse cities, sometimes at war with one another, with their vouchers, notes, seals, stamps, letters of credit, and such, have created a subtle, almost invisible, but very real, commercial world.	10
51	77	But later, reveling in the freedom of their collars, and having no choice but to move as what they are, women, and slaves, they, now perfect and real, having found their identity, and rejoicing in it, brazen in the recognition of their uniqueness, their specialness, and desirability, move with a nat...	10
61	44	It may have been there, chemically, as real as the paga in the blood, but it was no longer operative.	10
62	112	In others, external forms are imposed from the outside, and the slave becomes real on the inside, as the latent inner slave is discovered and released, and then, now naturally, manifests itself on the outside.	10
62	116	And yet, are we not grateful, to be so alive, so real, so needful, so slave? "I beg use," said Paula, tensely.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	75	Could it be? Surely it was not real! But it was real.	10
35	104	Who could respect a master who does not keep us in our place, at his feet? One soon learns not to test the limits of one's discipline, as it is quite real, as real as hissing leather and weighty chains.	10
1	317	She comes to realize that she is not really a social artifact, but something real, a woman, and, as a woman, a profoundly sexual creature.	10
3	192	How real that was! I suddenly realized that I had worth, as a domestic beast, and that men might pay for me, as one might, for a dog or horse.	10
12	9	I think this must be the natural relationship of the male and the female, for the men seem so healthy and vital, and I, at least, have never felt so alive, so real, so meaningful, and vital as in a collar.	10
17	17	I supposed it was, if it was real, a variety of long tharlarion, perhaps a mutant or sport, or such.	10
25	27	I did not think 'Bruno of Torcadino' was his real name or his customary name, but I would use it to refer to him.	10
41	158	Yet how important is the master! So much depended on the master! Did it matter, really, if the master was a good master, whether he was of Ar or Brundisium, or far Turia or even Port Kar? Did it matter, really, whether he was of Cos or Tyros, or of the mainland? I knew that docilities and submission...	10
47	212	"Stakes were high, perils were real," he said.	10

Book 36. (11 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
61	31	The country of the theater is the world of the mind, of the imagination, of the heart, a world far more real than realism can dream, far more real than realism can comprehend".	10
6	156	She is now something real, at last.	10
7	21	"The least bit of real assistance we can garner, even the tiniest genuine clue we can obtain, is immeasurably precious.	10
11	173	"No," he said, "your real name".	10
19	168	"It is a weapon of cowards," said the first, "who dare not face a real weapon".	10
31	11	"It does not even look real," said Aktis.	10
31	12	"It is not real," said Thurnock.	10
31	16	"They would never have seen the real hair of Bosk of Port Kar," said Clitus.	10
36	98	"Life is rich and deep, and real," said Millicent.	10
48	14	Danger was obvious, distant perhaps but real.	10
48	145	Desire, hope, fear, and thought, though not measured in pounds or centimeters, are no less real than wind and grass, than mountains and stars.	10