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Reality

Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	137	Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an in...	10
1	164	It was warm from the ashes, hard, substantial—a piece of reality.	10
1	188	Who knew the nature of the things or forces that were afoot that night in the mountains, things and forces that might perhaps smash me, casually, as one innocently steps on an insect without being aware of it or caring? I still had the compass, and that constituted a firm link to reality.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	96	Never before had I been so aware of the thin margin of reality admitted into the human nervous system, little more than a razor's width of apprehension given the multiple and complex physical processes which formed our environment.	10
13	26	One practical result of this seems to be that they have never been tempted to oversimplify physical reality, biological processes or the operations of a functioning mind.	10
30	33	The thought of suicide has always horrified me, for life seems precious, and the mortal moments that one has, so brief a glimpse of the vistas of reality, it seems to me should be cherished, even though they might be lived in pain or sorrow.	10
34	65	"Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the City, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself.	10
35	130	I surmised he was speaking of those entropic regularities that apparently prevailed in reality as we know it, the loss of energy, its transformation into the ashes of the stellar night.	10

Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	110	They are intelligent, they have imagination, they will have understood the possibility before, though not considering it seriously, and will, in time, accept the reality".	10
15	201	Following some two weeks of these discussions, which seemed to me at the time, at any rate, to be a waste of training time, Virginia Kent, who had feared men, had come to weigh seriously, if not to accept, certain of the theories of Flaminius, Phyllis to fight them and reject them as hateful slander...	10

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	335	They had cost me the concept that I had taken for my reality; they had torn from me a bright image, an illusion, precious and treasured, an unwarranted reflection of suppositions and wishes, not examined, which I had taken to be the truth of my identity.	10
11	413	The arsenal guard, presumably, would become a branch of the newly formed council guard, if such became a reality.	10
18	902	"It is only in such moments," said Samos, "that a man sometimes learns that all truth and all reality is not written in one's own codes".	10

Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	354	I had just not yet met those who might understand this new reality, and claim me.	10
13	1077	Now I lay before him, in reality, fully captured, his, his helpless, bound prisoner.	10
14	431	Some men, of course, not just warriors, tarnsmen, and such, find pleasure in obtaining a new girl, a new slave, and then initiating her into the ramifications and consequences of her condition, in seeing that she is well familiarized with, and is well inducted into, a variety of dimensions of her ne...	10
16	276	Without the reality of the whip how can she be a slave? Indifference on the part of the master is often a sign that she is soon to be led to the market.	10
16	285	Her bondage adds a particular dimension, a thrilling vividness, an edge, a special reality to her life, one unknown to free women.	10
16	293	She now has a new, thrilling reality, perhaps a secret one, that enflames her, that makes her life worth living.	10
17	144	This was truly she, her honest reality as a slave.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	747	Yet, in their dreams, it seems they find themselves forced to surrender, totally, to fierce, dominating masters, masters emerging like welcome, long-awaited, long-sought beasts from another reality, imperious, hungry men striding into their lives with ropes and chains, looking for a capture, a woman...	10
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

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	23	The line, so to speak, imaginary to be sure, but definitely felt as a social reality, dividing those above from those below the salt, was uniformly "drawn" across the width of the hall.	10
15	323	I had not conquered a mountain; the mountain, when I had paid its price, that I might understand the value of the gift, had lifted me to where I might see how insignificant I was and how beautiful and precious was reality and life, and the sun on a bleak, cold land.	10
16	148	When he looked down, torch lifted, upon the bones and fragile cloths of what had once been a hero, when the myth had been shattered, the crystal of its dream beneath the iron of reality, I wanted to stand near him.	10
17	51	Is grandeur so fearful that men must shield themselves with pettiness from its glory; do they not understand that in themselves, and in perhaps a thousand other intelligences, reality has opened its eyes upon its own immensity; do they shut their eyes lest they see gods? We could see now a glimmer o...	10

Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	60	Indeed, the entire life of the slave, physically, mentally, emotionally, is imbued with the reality, beauty, joy, sensitivity, and vulnerability of her condition.	10
24	691	That she may not speak without having first obtained the permission of her master underscores the reality of her bondage, the authenticity of his mastery.	10
24	834	"The circumstances I have outlined," I told her, "are reality.	10
26	969	"If a woman is truly a slave," I said, "then it would seem best that she not deny this truth, this reality, but rather accept it, and then be joyfully the best slave she can be.	10

Book 11. (5 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	914	The pitifulness of that pretense vanished before the simple, incontrovertible biological reality which had been impressed upon me, in the light of his uncompromising masculine dominance which he, in health and power, chose to exercise over me, a female.	10
3	602	Then, overwhelmingly, irresistibly, like a cry of anguish, it welled up within me; I could no longer ignore, suppress or repudiate it; no longer could I, like a foolish girl of Earth, deny and flee my reality; the comprehension, insistent and explosive, overpoweringly, erupted within me; I was naked...	10
4	938	Where is she to run? What is she to do? All in all, escape is not a reality for female slaves.	10
9	1019	It is difficult to make clear to a non-Gorean the significance of the Home Stone, for the non-Gorean has never had a Home Stone, and thus cannot understand its meaning, its reality.	10
18	66	Certainly there is little on Earth that will have prepared them to understand the nature of her bondage, its particular reality.	10

Book 12. (12 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	358	Some would see this as superstition; others sense that there is some sort of an inexplicable reality which is here involved, a difficult and subtle reality which the man of the sea can somehow sense, but which he cannot, and perhaps should not, attempt to explain to the satisfaction of men other tha...	10
2	366	The man of Earth thinks of the world as being essentially dead; the Gorean thinks of his world as being essentially alive; one utilizes the metaphor of the blind machine, the other the metaphor of the living being; doubtless reality exceeds all metaphors; in the face of reality doubtless all metapho...	10
3	472	The joy of the slave girl may seem incomprehensible to the free but it is a reality.	10
3	596	Already, despite her Earth background, so astonishingly and incomprehensibly other than her current reality, she clearly suspected the truth, that they had been selected for embondment, and that they were perhaps even now slaves—literally that—even now, slaves.	10
3	872	"Accept it, my dear," said the dark-haired girl, "our reality is now transformed".	10
3	1199	Perhaps both the dark-haired girl and the blonde, if they had they been somewhat longer on the platform, might have learned something—might have conquered their inhibitions, and have submitted themselves willingly, gladly, trustingly and hopefully, to the rude, exploratory caresses of buyers,...	10
12	613	"They are a reminiscence," I said, "of a vanished reality.	10
15	324	"And then, one day, on a platform in the Sardar, I learned that it was not a simple dream, but that it had been a dream to which there corresponded a fearful reality".	10
21	250	"I think, perhaps, that some human beings, here and there, even in the midst of the suffering, even in the very countries of confusion and pathology, will create for themselves small islands of reality and truth".	10
21	312	She can never touch you in the profundity of your existence and reality unless sometime she, too, should learn what it is to be only a collared slave.	10
24	299	Oh, I could speak to you of a woman's need for emotional fulfillment, security, excitement, romance, discipline; her need to relate, to be happy, to a strong male figure, one before whom she knows herself, truly, in the intimacy of herself to be a female, and his; the bankruptcy of egoism, ambition,...	10
24	323	I think that is it, that that is my reality, that I am a slave".	10

Book 13. (11 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	55	Why can truth not be the foundation of culture, rather than its nemesis? Can one not build upon the stone cliffs of reality rather than dash one's head against them? But how few human beings can think, how few dare to inquire, how few can honestly question.	10
6	502	Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris...	10
11	59	You confuse the pretense with the truth, the artificial and imitative with the reality.	10
13	351	She began then, hysterically, sensing what portended, given the nature of her new reality, that of slave, to pull, and jerk, and tear at the chains.	10
14	135	"Oh," she said, "oh," suddenly, rudely, returning to a slave's reality, then understanding that she lay in straw, her back on a wooden floor, held in the arms of a man.	10
23	118	"How dazed and confused you must be when, upon occasion, you encounter reality".	10
24	358	"Here," she said, "it is reality".	10
27	188	Should one concern oneself with cattle? Let them know no more than that one day they are themselves, as they recall themselves, perhaps in many cases tense, petulant, intemperate, self-seeking, frustrated, miserable, and bored, in familiar quotidian surroundings, in a predictable and routine reality...	10
32	322	"It is, now, and recognize it, if you dare, your reality".	10
32	532	How horrifying it is to look upon such a reality so directly.	10
32	1005	I suspect that the dream, in the beautiful allegory of its symbolism, was conveying to you not mysterious truths of other realities but concealed truths of your own reality, truths which your conscious mind, because of its training, could not bring itself to recognize with candor".	10

Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	316	What then could be biological manhood, in the fullness of its rationality and strength? I had, already, begun to suspect that manhood was not a mere pretension, as I had been taught, but something selected for, as seems reasonable, like the nature of the eagle and the lion, in the long, harsh realit...	10
1	762	"I must be a true woman!" "I have little doubt that you are more intelligent, and have a greater grasp of reality, than they," I said, "but you will not, in all likelihood, compete successfully with them.	10
1	1052	The possibility was too horrifying to even consider as a reality.	10
4	42	What set them so apart from other women, what made them so different, what made their beauty ten thousand times more devastating and exciting than that of other women was that they, in full actuality, in full reality, were owned slaves.	10
7	575	Was I strong enough to accept honestly what I might find there? Is it not safer to cower in the caves of lies than stand upon the cliffs of truth, surveying the world? Yet when one stands in the sunlight, and feels the winds of reality, how dank and shameful seem the dark shelters of falsehood, and ...	10
7	578	But into those definitions did not enter, as I now recognize, hints of a nature formed by a harsh evolution, remarks pertaining to genetic dispositions selected for in times when the meadows were bestrode by the prowling tread of the saber-toothed tiger and the hills rang with the trumpeting of mast...	10
12	376	The utility of generality must not be permitted to blind us to the specificity of reality.	10
19	157	Her condition, her being, her reality, that of slave, suffuses her.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	182	She, the vain, proper, elegant young lady, so prideful, yet so confused and unhappy, so desperately concerned to profess, and adhere to, prescribed views, so conditioned to uncritically accept multiple stupidities, so concerned to be found acceptable by driven, self-seeking, moronic doctrinaires, no...	10
11	356	Can the human reality, in the fullness of its truth, be truly so fearful a thing.	10
11	570	"It is important to hold the correct opinions, whether they conform to reality or not".	10
21	216	"But what if she is a slave," asked Peggy, "in reality a true slave?" "It does not matter," I said.	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	396	The collar makes it clear to them that their dream has been enacted upon them; that, indeed, their dream, to their joy, has become their reality.	10
20	130	They would wait, it seemed, to see whether or not the league became an effective, practical political reality upon the Vosk.	10

Book 17. (19 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
1	855	"Such people do not distinguish clearly between dreams and reality," said Samos.	10
1	995	This has to do with their beliefs as to the mysterious relationships which are thought to obtain between the world of reality and the medicine world, that, at times, these two worlds impinge on one another, and become one.	10
3	62	I was pleased to hear this simple confession from the girl, this straightforward, uncompromising admission of the reality of her sex.	10
8	317	It was thus being made clear to her that she was making a transition to a new reality.	10
11	249	The self-image of the noble, inaccessible free woman was to be replaced with the reality of the needful slave.	10
13	346	"I have known it for years, from my desires and feelings, even from before the interior truths of my reality manifested themselves so unmistakably, so unrepudiably, in my body, shaping and curving me for the destiny of the female, and for the lustful, appraising eyes of men".	10
13	491	But I recalled, you see, a brighter, fresher, greener, more sensate, more living reality.	10
13	1021	"How incredible do I find my current reality," she marveled.	10
13	1025	"Your reality is precisely what it seems," I assured her.	10
13	1176	"It is not strange that you should learn this on a world far from your own," I said, "for your world is like a distorting lens, perverting even the most conspicuous lineaments of biological reality, nor is it strange that you should learn it as a stripped slave.	10
13	1464	"It is thus that pathological conceptions, ingrained in common speech, can produce distorted notions of reality," I said.	10
13	1555	"But the main thing, in my opinion," I said, "is the psychological effect on the woman, the bringing home to her, in clear, forcible and undeniable terms, the reality of her situation, that she is helpless, that she is at his mercy, that she, regardless of her will, is now his to do with as he pleas...	10
14	74	It is not merely that it is more common nearer the perimeter but, I think, that it serves as a reminder, near the perimeter, of the reality and proximity of the red nations, whereas these same nations, or tribes, far from the perimeter tend to be regarded not only as remote but as almost mythical pe...	10
14	747	"Mockery has no choice but to assert itself," she said, "when reality is forsworn".	10
17	298	What could he want of me? I was a free woman! Could he expect of me some ignoble act of submission, some gross token on my part of my acceptance of a new reality in my life.	10
17	446	Another approach might be to envision a world compatible with reality and congenial to human nature, a world in which science, even social science, might be free, a world in which truth would not be against the law, a world designed not for the crippling, distortion and torture of humanity but for i...	10
17	578	"Even if the society is totally misrelated to reality?" she asked.	10
17	588	"I would hope so," I said, "one that was framed with a closer regard for empirical reality, the actual nature of human beings, and such".	10

Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	138	One can always improvise something, if one wishes, and, from the point of view of what it means, its reality, and significance, any collar is a collar.	10
7	249	"This is my reality, is it not," she said, "that of a slave, at the bidding of men?" "Yes," I said.	10
9	97	Bondage for a beautiful woman, such as yourself, is a common reality on Gor".	10
9	107	"It is your reality," I said.	10
30	62	Truth, you see, has reality on its side.	10
39	141	"It seems, then," I said, "that you hated them because you were jealous of them, that, in reality, you envied them".	10
56	57	Stability's key, in the paradoxes of martial reality, is commonly combative parity.	10

Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	373	Ligurious, first minister of the city, even, had assured me of the reality of this dignity.	10
6	514	Where I had needed reality and truth I had been given only lies, propaganda and false values.	10
27	61	Its pretentiousness, suggesting superciliousness and arrogance, contrasts nicely with the actual reality of the slave.	10
34	55	Herein one finds the complementarity of the sexes, the meaning of the radical sexual dimorphism so obviously characterizing the human species, an acknowledgment of the geodesics of the human reality, a beautifully manifested instance of nature's deepest equation, her dominance/submission ratio.	10
36	428	An acorn placed when tiny and helpless in a pot and starved and sickened will never clutch the dark soil of reality with deep roots like talons and lift green, spreading, mighty leaf-bestrewn branches to sunlight and wind.	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	416	"These things may now seem hard to understand," said Samos, "but they, and their reality, if you are permitted to live, will soon become clear".	10

Book 21. (13 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	177	To be sure, with a new slave, this ceremony is sometimes enforced upon her, as it helps her to attain a clearer understanding of what she now is, and the nature of her new reality.	10
1	200	There are many points which might be made here, but I will limit myself to three, which may be succinctly recounted: First, exemplified by what had just occurred, a woman may wish to feel its stroke in order that the reality of her longed-for bondage be impressed upon her; one does not, of course, w...	10
16	177	"You will then have entered upon your new reality.	10
16	739	I gather that she, in the customary, unquestioning self-centeredness and vanity of her youth, seemingly so inevitable in the young, has given little concern to your feelings, to your reality as an independent woman and human being, that she has scarcely thought of you, or understood you, in these wa...	10
18	268	"In such a case then," I said, "if Feiqa is a natural slave, it might be fitting, don't you think, that she acknowledged this, and then entered humbly upon her authentic reality".	10
21	136	Such things are not uncommon amongst idealists, so tender and thoughtful, so loving and trusting, prisoners of verbalisms, dazzled by inventions and dreams, projecting their own benevolence unto the larl and the forests, skeptical of reality, construing the world in the metaphor of the flower.	10
21	137	What consolation is it for others if they should eventually discover that they live in a world of facts, if disillusioned they should eventually recognize their errors, living to see the harvests of their own foolishness, living to see their civilization split asunder, to see their world fall bleedi...	10
22	219	Such games, in short, thus, encourage the lad, almost from infancy on, to reality and nature, to manhood and mastery.	10
25	377	Many masters discover that this procedure often smoothes and hastens the transition between the background of Earth freedoms, such as they are, and the new reality of absolute bondage.	10
25	691	Some women, whose hunger for bondage is just under the surface, if not manifest, are probably prepared to be superb slaves almost instantly, with no pain, or perhaps no more than a modicum of pain, perhaps only enough to assure them of the reality of their condition, that they are truly slaves, and ...	10
25	2231	And this will remain true, always, in its own place, and in its own terms, regardless of the lies taught children, the restriction of educational posts to adherents, the pervasive propaganda, the selective allocation of research grants, the denial of freedoms and the suppression of alternative views...	10
25	2304	"It is an interesting concept," I said, "that legislation could be passed against manhood, that nature can be dismissed with a statute, that her reality and aristocracy can be declared illegal.	10
27	195	This is good for them and helps them to become more open, more honest, about their needs and desires, and about what they most want to be, and how they most want to live, a condition and a way of life which were no more than a lovely, wayward dream on Earth, but became for them, astonishingly, with ...	10

Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	16	That the paper might be burned could not undo what was now transcribed in the reality of the world.	10
3	370	I was in the same place where, months before, I had, in a very different reality, found myself on my knees before this man.	10
8	42	In it we had had a demonstration of their firmness and power, of the meaningfulness and reality of their mastery.	10
9	235	Indeed, the first sensation that I had been aware of on this world had been the stroke of Teibar's whip, awakening his "modern woman" to her new reality.	10
10	353	They had been the reflexive, or almost reflexive, struggles of a bound girl finding herself absolutely helpless in a terrifying reality.	10
11	907	This speaks of reality and savagery, of ferocity, and beauty and barbarism, and of the fundamental meaningfulness of the male/female relationship, that of power and ferocity to beauty, of dominator to dominated, of master to slave.	10
11	943	Suddenly in my dance it seemed I was a virgin, reluctant and fearful, terrified in the reality in which she found herself, but knowing she must respond to the music, to those heady, sensuous rhythms, to the wild cries of the flute, to the beating of the drum.	10
11	949	Then, as the dance continued, I signified by expression and movement my curiosity and fascination with what I was being forced to do, and the responses of my body, reconciled now to its reality, helplessly obedient now to the music.	10
11	1611	My needs, and my reality, were now revealing its lack of soundness, its historical eccentricity, indexed to outmoded ideologies and conditions, its idiosyncrasy, its absurdity, making it obsolete, and overthrowing it.	10
13	874	When a girl's most secret thoughts can be read as easily as slave numbers written on her breast her only viable option is total honesty, and as complete submission was required of Gorean slave girls her only practical recourse under such stringent circumstances is either to choose death or become in...	10
13	875	In short, as deception is impossible, the girl must either choose death or the reality of true bondage.	10
16	191	To be sure, this very understanding, in itself, knowing the discipline under which they served, its consistency and reality, encouraged them to attempt to achieve perfect pleasingness, with the result that the whip was seldom called for, unless perhaps for the amusement of masters.	10

Book 23. (16 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
1	592	Its reality, of course, can become clear to them, for example, as they might find themselves on their knees, bound, kissing a man's whip.	10
6	417	Many function like ideological garments, designed to conceal or misrepresent reality.	10
8	707	She must cease to think of herself in terms of convention and fiction, and be freed to think of herself as an honest, biological reality, a natural, vital, needful, awakened woman.	10
10	313	Too, in her new reality, that of slave, it was not up to her to concern herself with, or inquire critically into, the affairs of free men.	10
16	352	They are, in effect, though their affixing can legally effect embondment, ultimately, in themselves, tokens of bondage, and are not to be confused with the reality itself.	10
19	160	What had been done here, however, had been entered into the annals of reality.	10
21	438	In this modality, they soon find the key to their deepest self, that key which unlocks the secrets of their most profound reality, and then, withal, they discover and obtain the fulfillment of their deepest being, that for which their very genetic coding cries out, that of the mastered woman.	10
21	674	I forsook the softness and the reality of my being for ambition and cruelty.	10
21	951	They have then escaped the sexual desert of Earth and have found themselves brought into the radiant, glorious reality of a world such as the Earth once was, a natural world where the males are men, and the females theirs.	10
21	1049	Who cares for long whence a kaiila was obtained? And why, after a time, does the kaiila care from whence she was obtained? She knows now that she has a new reality, and that she belongs to the master.	10
21	1182	Would not such a girl have understood, from her situation and environment, and the bootlike sandals before her, that her most secret fantasies might be soon enacted upon her, with all the reality of a locked collar, with all the factuality of a slave whip pressed to her soft lips, to be licked and k...	10
21	1393	Too, I think that such things, a new name, for example, showing her that she is now in a new reality, and so on, can help her make the transition more smoothly into bondage.	10
23	109	Indeed, many of the petty recalcitrances and rebellions of slave girls, and such, may be seen merely as attempts on their part to beg their masters to be strong with them, attempts somewhat like those of a child, sometimes, to reassure themselves of the reality and strength of the authority to which...	10
24	500	But in any case, whether because of her own pride, in itself, or her concern that I who had known her as a free woman was about, or because of the strangers in the crowd, or the other slave girls, or whatever, how woefully out of place was that absurd utterance in her new reality! But then I saw in ...	10
24	959	In general, though, whereas, as I have suggested, much depends on the woman, I think it is usually better to change the woman's name, that she may now understand that she is in a new reality.	10

Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	1549	"Your experience was not conditioned by the categoricality of bondage, by the reality of it, and the slave's knowledge of that reality, by the full belonging of the slave to her master, so to speak, and her understanding, legal, and personal, and such, of that full belonging.	10
48	84	It also, of course, helps her to understand that the nature of her new reality, the reality in which she now finds herself, may be other than that with which she was formerly familiar.	10
43	160	"I did not know that such a female could exist in reality," he said.	10
43	193	It had been a recognition in reality, the sudden sensing of a rightness, an appropriateness, an exact fittingness.	10
47	262	I was vaguely aware of quarrels slashing into the dirt, streaking like plows in the dirt, throwing up a spume of dust like water, others darting wildly upward, some lost overhead, passing somewhere, some skittering about, turning head over heels, then some bounding twenty or more feet in the air, tu...	10
48	79	It also gave me an opportunity to bring her back to our camp with the garment about her neck, a touch which I thought would be helpful in accommodating her to her new reality.	10

Book 25. (12 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	29	Why is there anything? Why is there anything at all? Why not just nothing? Wouldn't "nothing" be more likely, more rational, more scientific? When did time begin? Where does space end? On a line, at the surface of a sphere? Do our definitions constrain reality? What if reality does not know our lang...	10
3	169	Such things, aside from their amusing, and fitting, aspects, are thought to be useful in accommodating her to her new reality, that of the female slave.	10
3	559	If she found such beauty, such sensuous liberation, such fulfilling joy, such reality, such honesty, the marvelousness of owned women before their masters, offensive or deplorable, why did she watch? What did she see there in the circle, I wondered.	10
8	519	Those who have witnessed the stinking ashes of such misjudgments are likely to be more patient with the craftsmanship of nature, with the slowly evolved ecologies of knowledge, of logic, of articulation, of civilization and reality".	10
8	547	Some ignorantly and sanctimoniously devote themselves to uncriticized abstractions; some strive merely to please their fellows; some, more ambitious, with their eye on power, seek to equal, or even outdo, their peers in lunacy; let civilization be inverted, if only they will then be on top; some, mo...	10
8	685	Ultimately civilization depends upon power, moral and physical, upon, so to speak, the will of masters and the reality of the whip and sword.	10
8	688	Also, accepting this principle, and knowing the strength and resolve of her master, and the uncompromising reality of the discipline under which she herself was held, she was naturally disinclined to see others escape sanctions and penalties to which she herself was subject.	10
13	70	What if some folks required lies, as the price of mental security? Should they be nonetheless denied their comforts, robbed of their illusions? Is their happiness worth less than that of others? Is it not better to tell them, if they are capable of no more, that the illusions are reality, that the l...	10
17	32	A last observation having to do with the tendency of some Goreans to accept illusions and such as reality is that the Gorean tends to take such things as honor and truth very seriously.	10
19	233	"Strange, then, Master," she said, "that we should meet in this reality, I, once a woman of Earth, as now no more than a kneeling slave before you, once a man of Earth".	10
27	74	"Their reality transcends your indoctrinations, presented under the colors of reason, as though reason, itself, had content".	10
27	247	She wants to know that you are her master, truly, in the fullness of reality.	10

Book 26. (16 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	148	Too, of course, it had its symbolic aspects, in its design, and its reality, that it marked me.	10
8	12	I did not know what was dream, and what was reality, if aught.	10
8	198	Where was I? Was I no longer what I had been, as I suspected? Had my reality, as I suspected, been transformed radically, utterly? I must know! I knelt back.	10
8	307	She is to be open, and know herself open, to the master; this reality contributes to her sense of vulnerability, and informs, enhances, suffuses, and considerably deepens the rich emotionality of her nature.	10
8	533	I was familiar, of course, with the protocols of neuterism, the silly, self-contradictory tenets of unisex, invented by those apparently as innocent of logic as glands, and the pathetic absurdities of "personism," such things, the fictions, the lies, the pretenses, the many tiny, brittle crusts conc...	10
8	534	But how tiresome it had been, and how frustrating, pretending to be only a surface, with no interior, no inner reality.	10
8	539	Some of us, however, might fear to inquire into this reality.	10
8	547	It was almost as though we had no reality of our own.	10
8	549	But here, on this world, such as I, at least, had an identity, an explicit, verifiable identity, an explicit, verifiable reality.	10
10	578	Reality was around the corner.	10
10	585	Here, however, I had a reality.	10
11	575	The contrast between the familiarity of the name, like a tie to an old world, and the new reality in which she finds herself can be both astonishing and stimulating.	10
12	133	They look too deeply into reality.	10
12	268	It was rather that in the full legalities of a world, in the full sanction of the totality of its customs, practices and institutions, in the fullness of its very reality, I was not free.	10
13	1254	I tried to come to grips with my chains, and the bars, and my reality.	10
13	1332	Too, here, in this place, I had, for the first time in my life, come to understand my own most profound reality, that which had been concealed beneath the veneers of civilization, that which had called out to me in secret moments, crying out even in my dreams.	10

Book 27. (28 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	23	Too, this is, I conjecture, in my current reality, not altogether unfitting; indeed, it is altogether appropriate, for you see that is what I now am, categorically, explicitly, an object, and not merely in the eyes of the law, but such irremediably, incontrovertibly, in the very reality of this worl...	10
1	26	In one world, in one reality, she was in her fifties.	10
1	42	What is being suggested here, or better, I think, noted, is that time does not dictate reality, or life or death, or change, but measures it, and that it is indifferent to what it measures, that it is independent of what it measures.	10
1	122	But this reality was later made clear to her, by incontrovertible laws, and deeds, which did not so much confirm the hypothetical strictures of a perhaps hitherto rather speculative law, one extending to a distant world, as replace or supersede them, in an incontrovertible manner, with immediate, un...	10
2	86	Lastly, she had insisted, in anger and confusion, on fashionable postmodernistic analyses, on the alleged social aspect of, and role of, "truth," as a weapon of ideological warfare, on the right of the scholar activist to alter, conceal, suppress, invent and falsify in order to comply with political...	10
5	32	To be sure, her most widely ranging, and far-flung, and ambitious speculations and conjectures, of necessity under the circumstances, must fail to prepare her for the reality without.	10
6	64	Such beasts, she was confident, could not exist in reality, serpents nearly a hundred feet in length, six-legged, sinuous, nocturnal predators, gigantic hawklike birds, and such.	10
8	105	She felt warm, beautiful, stirred, helpless, so much more aware then of the reality of her enslavement.	10
10	276	Such things are now gone, meaningless; they are irrelevant to, and far from, her current reality, that of a slave, that of the slave girl, Ellen.	10
11	43	She supposed, serving, that such an arrangement would not merely freshen a stale marriage, not simply renew a flagging relationship, but that it would alter it utterly, transform it beyond recognition, catapult it into hitherto unsuspected, astonishing dimensions, replacing the wearying familiaritie...	10
11	322	Reality occasionally intrudes.	10
11	693	But then she shuddered, for she knew that in truth, in reality, he was her master.	10
13	100	She was thrilled to be categorically subject to men, and this small thing, that she might speak only with permission, as few other things, especially as she was a woman, for we so desire to speak, and so delight to speak, spoke to her of the reality of her sometimes-resented, but fundamentally longe...	10
13	541	On the other hand, reality often embarrasses argument, and it must be admitted that a single female slave, particularly if trained, is often preferred to dozens of free women.	10
13	751	It was as though she would embrace it all, all of this fresh, clean, rushing, windswept, sunlit reality.	10
14	135	Or perhaps it is merely a way of them having us acknowledge our reality as sexual beings, that we, as women, want, desire and need sexual experience, in a pervasive, general, organic, biological manner.	10
15	387	How foreign to her reality would be such a pretense, how irrelevant to fact would be such a silly inward game! It would be a falsification of truth.	10
15	388	Who cared if a dog or a pig pretended not to be owned? Reality remained unchanged.	10
22	143	Ideology and politics were to take priority over such embarrassments as truth and fact; reality was inconvenient; clearly it had not been formed with orthodoxy in mind; nature denied would, of course, exact her vengeance; causes would continue to have their effects; rationality would be sacrificed, ...	10
22	164	It can survive only as a cannibalistic excrescence on the biological givens of reality, as the modality of a self-seeking, parasitical, politically active minority.	10
24	23	But later she had come to understand this as a given modality of her actuality, as an aspect of her being, as a quotidian reality.	10
24	28	But Ellen now, apart from her natural dispositions and deepest reality, fitting her for love and the collar, had come to understand herself on all levels, factually and honestly, as something which was owned, as something which could pass from master to master, as might any piece of property.	10
25	527	So this understanding, if understanding it was, certainly did not diminish reality.	10
26	337	In the collar she has a precisely defined cultural reality.	10
27	156	It might be mentioned in passing that, whatever may be the ideological point of encouraging antimenite fantasies of martial prowess on a politicized world, for example, in popular entertainments, fantasies themselves, such fantasies have little grounding in reality, and, if acted upon, may have trag...	10
27	1257	"It is time you put aside your theories, and learned of reality, and the world," he said.	10
30	620	I wonder if there are any left upon you now who can tear their way through the tapes of their conditioning programs and see reality clearly, vividly.	10
30	679	But with you, on the same chain, perhaps prized even more highly than you, their collars locked as securely as yours, their chains clasping as perfectly, their bodies as bared, may be other women, they selected as carefully as you, quiet, gentle, loving, needful, natural women, women less removed in...	10

Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	15	They have names; reality does not.	10
1	507	In short, she retires, unsuspecting, in the midst of her familiar surroundings, and awakens in a quite unfamiliar reality, both ambient and personal.	10
1	687	And yet the act frightened her, because she felt its reality, and physicality.	10
2	310	Had he heard what was said? Had she said that—what he had thought he had heard? "Please, Masters!" she screamed, "do not eat me! I will be your slave! Keep me as a slave! Make me your slave! I will be a slave! No, no, I am a slave! I am a slave! Keep me for yourselves, or sell me to men! Do n...	10
3	2	Cabot shook his head, and tried to bundle his thoughts together, trying to piece a number of diverse shreds and particles into a coherent picture of reality.	10
79	302	Their status, their condition, their reality was then well confirmed upon them.	10

Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	274	I had been startled, though I had sensed even in the container something of the deep nature, the hidden reality, of the lovely, petty, snobbish, supercilious Miss Pym.	10
9	40	She thought my concerns exaggerated, and disproportionate to the likely reality.	10
9	346	"Does the mastery not fill a man with power," I asked, "with zest, with vitality, with a sense of reality and identity, with a sense of fittingness, with a sense of being himself, with a sense at last of being a part of nature rather than a dislocated, lost, wandering fragment shorn from her?" "Why ...	10
22	447	Or do they know themselves slaves, lacking only a master? How, I thought, might a civilization distort and pervert truth! How it can veil nature and conceal reality! How it can demean one thing and bedeck another, how it can in so many ways flee the serious, mighty, and worthy, and embrace the insig...	10
22	507	Occasionally they may be whipped to remind them, and they may even, themselves, sometimes request the whip, that they be reassured of their master's attention, and the reality of their bondage.	10
25	11	I did not care for the veils with which reality so frequently chose to clothe herself, nor for the thousand mirrors, with their ten thousand reflections and images, each claiming that the truth is here, the ten thousand reflections and images, mirages, betraying belief and hope.	10
25	60	Is it not a fit recompense for their treachery? Let them stay then in their collars, and, bound at a punishment ring, absorb the lessons of the whip, informing them as to the reality of their condition and the nature of their future.	10
28	404	How radiant and joyful they are in their collars! Are they not born to thongs? Is it so strange that they find their joy and fulfillment at a man's feet, or is it merely to be expected, given a genetic heritage of the surrenders of love, without which a woman cannot be whole? Who is the man who trul...	10
37	37	I had heard nothing more of the approach of enemy forces, but I entertained no doubt as to their imminence and reality.	10
38	157	Surely in their dreams they have considered this sort of thing, and now they discover, on their knees, it has become their reality.	10

Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	39	And how far away must her former reality have seemed, the former reality of this small, luscious barbarian, a brunette, nicely breasted, narrow waisted, and invitingly hipped, with small hands and feet, from her present reality, lying bound on the floor of a tavern, at the side of a table of masters...	10
6	92	At last they have a reality and an identity.	10
22	325	The flood stopped, and, like startled, turned verr, the enemy began to mill, and fearful words were carried to farther ranks, and men who could not even see us received reports so magnified that they must exceed the horror of reality.	10
33	62	"That is quite different," he said, "I take it, from your former reality".	10
33	92	Once they burn, would she then trade her collar for a shallow deceit, the denial and falsification of her most profound reality, that of female, for the betrayal of nature, for the repudiation of her deepest self, for the inertnesses and tepidities of freedom? She has found herself, and is content.	10
33	139	"Perhaps," I said, "my lovely graduate student, as you call it, your current reality is not so different now from that which you occasionally imagined on Earth, when you thought of yourself as a slave in one or another of those different, ancient worlds".	10

Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	180	She pointed to the door and, shuddering, stumbling, numb, we turned about, unable to speak, unable to comprehend the dissolution of our reality, the sudden and catastrophic loss of our position and status, taken as given and unassailable but moments ago.	10
4	722	After a bit, however, my alarm seemed foolish to me, and I regarded the dream, for all its seeming reality, with amusement.	10
7	153	"Acknowledge your reality! It is not wrong to be what you truly are.	10
7	741	To be sure, theory and profession were one thing, and reality another.	10
8	170	What difference might such thing make to them, the remote and disengaged gods of a world? But I now, at least, was in no doubt as to the reality of Gor.	10
8	1483	How clear then, without obfuscation, the pretenses put aside, the veils now removed, became the nature of reality, culturally, socially, and biologically.	10
10	831	In short, the Lady Bina, counting on her unusual beauty, and well aware of its usual effect on men, and bolstered by an unchastened vanity, one as yet little bruised by the contact with reality, planned to become, however unlikely or incredible it might seem, literally the Ubara of Ar, Gor's greates...	10
10	843	Did she not know that a jungle, formidable and dangerous, exacting and competitive, existed in the streets of Ar, a jungle which, as in many communities, for all its reality, was invisible? "A Ubar, a great lord, a potentate," said the beast, "does not companion casually or lightly.	10
10	1074	How close the edge seemed, the sharp drop much closer than it could have been in reality.	10
17	496	They make us theirs, in reality, and law.	10
18	1037	I think I would have rejoiced had I been cuffed or kicked, or tied to a ring and beaten, for then, at least, I would have known myself as a reality, however negligible and contemptible, in his world.	10

Book 32. (14 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
48	27	Here it was so not only in the aching, longing reality of the heart, desiring to belong to and serve a master, but in the full, implacable reality of fact, truth, and law.	10
4	25	Perhaps, too, it has to do with the whole of the thing, its reality, its newness, the sensations, the torchlight, the auctioneer, the cries of the men, the bidding.	10
5	99	Then, one night, clutching my pillow, bursting into tears, I ended the game, realizing its meaninglessness and futility, and accepted, sorrowing, the drabness, the boredom, the pointlessness, the impoverishment, the emptiness, the reality of my life.	10
7	254	Yet, too, I felt an indescribable excitement and thrill, a sense of reassurance and security, and even identity, and reality, knowing myself subject to its attention, knowing it would be used upon me if I failed to be pleasing.	10
7	259	I had never expected to kneel before men, owned, and utter to them, in full significance and reality, that telling word, "Master".	10
10	10	Let the idealist and the fanatic curse the inevitable fruits of his success, the brass he took for gold, the unexamined shadow he took for substance, the bright illusion he took for reality; he does not lament the downfall of peoples and states, the carts of bones and the lakes of blood; his grief, ...	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	239	Being brought to Gor was thus for me, in its way, more than a dream come true; it was a restoration of human biological reality, a recovery of a rightfulness of nature, a returning of me to the path of my heart, a bringing of me to a world in which I would have no choice but to be myself.	10
25	244	What has she to justify herself, save reality, blood, and need? I knew what I had been taught, in a thousand ways, a thousand times.	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
40	38	She often strives to perpetrate an externally imposed stereotype rather than acknowledge a reality, often preferring to ignore nature in favor of convention and artifice, often preferring lies to truth, slogans to history, cliches to biology, and ideologies to blood.	10
40	39	Who is it who deems reality unlawful? Those who somehow profit from its denial? Why should it be incumbent on a particular form of life to betray itself? We do not ask that of the kaiila or sleen.	10
50	600	Walked away! I was nothing! I was scorned! I was miserable, distraught, devastated, furious, helpless, my hopes vanished, my world collapsed! All the seething obstinacy my world had conditioned into me erupted; all the lies and falsities of my former world reasserted themselves, proclaiming nature a...	10
52	849	As the whip, however, had been so rudely put to my lips I had no difficulty in gathering that my supposition that a master might care for a slave had borne little resemblance to reality.	10

Book 33. (8 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	98	Had they been lied to, they might have been distraught and shocked, confronting reality, and, simple soldiers, might have rebelled, and fled.	10
12	22	She does not exist in a reality irrelevant to, or innocent of, assessment.	10
19	206	In the container, of course, recently translated to Gor, indeed, awakening to discover her new reality, that of a naked prisoner in a transparent alien containment device, she was dismayed, shocked, frightened, and confused.	10
21	79	I had no idea whether or not these speculations were grounded in reality, or were no more than the arrant conjectures of an ignorant few who were, perhaps, as little aware of the springs and engines on which the world turned as the grazing tabuk feeding in the meadows, the sheltering wood nearby, or...	10
30	528	"It is a condition," he said, "a form of being, an entirety, an existence, a suffused reality, a wholeness".	10
44	30	It is interesting, I thought, the relationships between politics and reality, between words and deeds, between laws and enforcements, between formalities and facts.	10
44	32	But the reality was that the cavalry had repudiated in fact, if not in name, its allegiance to Lord Temmu, following his betrayal of me into the power of Lord Yamada.	10
45	24	"But it would have lost its mantle of mystery, its most fearsome feature, the aura of the unnatural and incomprehensible; it would no longer be something unfamiliar and inexplicable which transcends reason and the world as we know it; it would no longer be something astonishing and unwelcome, emerge...	10

Book 34. (6 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	162	And so, suddenly shaken, I realized that the imagery I had casually noted long ago, in passing, and to which I had given little thought, was an image of an authentic reality, and that I had now, for the first time, experienced that reality, or something much like it.	10
2	70	"Reality might wear many concealments".	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
9	159	It is, of course, one thing to see images, or pictures, and quite another to see the thing pictured, and sense its reality, its purposiveness, what it would be to see the thing as it actually is.	10
12	11	Perhaps the free woman might have some intellectual sense of such matters, verbal, abstract, remote, superficial, or such, or thinks she does, but, I assure you, that intellectual comprehension is quite other than the realization of the reality, that one is, indeed, a slave.	10
60	282	I had little doubt that the names 'Aelius' and 'Lucilius' had been chosen with political intent, largely to soothe apprehensions in the House of a Hundred Corridors, to suggest a relationship of sympathy and accord that might not exist, to insist on the existence of a bridge where, in reality, one m...	10

Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	290	In more than one way, one is more exposed to the world, to nature, and the reality in which one exists.	10
3	365	Reality is recalcitrant.	10
9	25	To us our bondage is precious, and we beg to be reassured of its reality.	10
46	582	What woman can understand this, but one who in reality, or in her thoughts, has been chained at the feet of a master? Then I not only danced my slavery, but I addressed myself to Addison Steele, as though I might be his slave, one who craved his collar, one who wished to feel the weight of his chain...	10

Book 36. (6 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	56	"For years I put aside my dreams and fantasies, for years I strenuously denied my most inward and profound reality, as my culture prescribed, but I always knew it, and, after your touch, I accepted it, at last, and gladly.	10
12	12	To be sure, who knew what undiscovered riches might occur in remote regions? My seemingly reckless, unguarded distribution of the tiny gold disks in the tavern of The Living Island was intended to overcome any possible doubts as to the reality of The Village of Flowing Gold.	10
29	166	Later, as the slave learns her collar, she comes to accept, welcome, celebrate, and treasure her subservience and submission, her new and exciting way of being, her new reality.	10
48	138	Many Goreans, as I understand it, though such things are seldom made explicit, being more taken for granted than proclaimed, more understood than expressed, have a view of the world and reality which might be found surprising by the average individual of Earth.	10
48	148	His relationship to his encountered reality is thus likely to be far more personal than that of the average individual of Earth.	10
54	19	Too often it is, in its thoughtless way, unrelated to the reality of the moment, sometimes dangerously so.	10