| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 269 |
The tarn is one of the two most common mounts of a Gorean warrior; the other is the high tharlarion, a species of saddle-lizard, used mostly by clans who have never mastered tarns. |
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| 9 | 94 |
He rode the species of tharlarion called the high tharlarion, which ran on its two back feet in great bounding strides. |
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| 9 | 168 |
It was also the name of a species of tiny, brightly orange reptile, the most venomous on Gor. |
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| 10 | 66 |
"They are for the benefit of certain species such as yourself. |
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| 11 | 4 |
I wondered if men of my species would have difficulty telling Priest-Kings apart. |
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| 16 | 61 |
"Indeed," said Misk, "it was partly because of this tendency that we brought man to the Counter-Earth, for he is an interesting species and it would be sad to us if he disappeared from the universe". |
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| 16 | 63 |
"No," said Misk, "we have similarly brought various species to the Counter-Earth, from other locations". |
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| 16 | 64 |
"I have seen few of these 'other species,'" I said. |
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| 16 | 170 |
"I am glad that such a creature," said Misk, "is not of my species". |
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| 17 | 164 |
"The truth is," said Sarm, "that the human is a dangerous and predatory species". |
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| 26 | 260 |
I wondered of the struggles of my own world as well as on Gor, struggles which over millennia had shaped the blood and inmost being of my species, perhaps conflicts over tunnels in cliffs to be fought with the savage cave bear, long dangerous weeks spent hunting the same game as the saber-toothed ti... |
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| 26 | 261 |
As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ... |
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| 31 | 96 |
The more difficult matters had to do with the political arrangements that would allow these two diverse species to inhabit peaceably and prosperously the same dwelling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 252 |
Kusk and I discussed various matters then for about an Ahn, primarily having to do with the extent to which the surveillance and control devices of the Nest had been restored since the Nest War, the increasing role of humans in the Nest, and the difficulties of working out a set of social arrangemen... |
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| 5 | 333 |
"Further," said Misk, "the Others are themselves a not uninteresting species, and we have permitted certain of them, prisoners taken from disabled probe ships, to live on this world, much as we have humans". |
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| 5 | 493 |
"Do you think," demanded Elizabeth, of both myself and Misk, "that a woman cannot be brave? Will you not honor her as you would a man with danger, not permit her to do something worthy of her species, something important and fine, or is all that is significant and meaningful to be reserved for men?"... |
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| 9 | 103 |
I myself had never cared much for exotics, any more than I cared much for some of the species of dogs and goldfish which some breeders of Earth regarded as such triumphs. |
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| 15 | 100 |
Beasts are also popular in the Stadium of Blades, and fights between various animals, half starved and goaded into fury by hot irons and whips, are common; sometimes the beasts fight beasts of the same species, and other times not; sometimes the beasts fight men, variously armed, or armed slave girl... |
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| 15 | 192 |
In her opinion, and perhaps rightly, the positions of both were subtle combinations of truths and half-truths; Phyllis seemed to regard men and women as unimportant differentiations off a sexless, neuter stock, whereas Flaminius argued for a position in which women were hardly to be recognized as be... |
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| 9 | 225 |
They contain great numbers of various species of trees, and different portions of the forests may differ considerably among themselves. |
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| 11 | 31 |
To me this seems preposterous, for ones so wise as Priest-Kings, but, in spite of its obvious falsity, Priest-Kings regard the Kurii and men as rather similar, almost equivalent species. |
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| 11 | 52 |
The speaker was not armed, save by the natural ferocity of his species. |
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| 11 | 139 |
That a species laughs bespeaks its intelligence, its capacity to reason, not its goodness, not its harmlessness. |
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| 11 | 190 |
In the laws of Priest-Kings it was up to such species, those of Kurii and men, to resolve their differences in their own way. |
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| 14 | 65 |
It is another similarity adduced by Priest-Kings when they wish to argue the equivalence of the warring species. |
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| 14 | 144 |
I, one of the herd, of the cattle, had dared to strike one of the master species, a superior form of life. |
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| 15 | 350 |
Priest-Kings, I recalled, regarded Kurii and men as rather equivalent species, similar products of similar processes of evolution, similar products of similarly cruel selections, though on worlds remote from one another. |
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| 18 | 216 |
A hundred yards of bloodied grass, of bodies, of men and Kurii, separated two species of warring animal. |
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| 20 | 138 |
Long ago, in the Sardar, Misk, the Priest-King, had told me that Priest-Kings see little difference between Kurii and men, that they regarded them as equivalent species. |
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| 4 | 42 |
The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of... |
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| 16 | 178 |
The long-bodied, ghostly creature, hunting in the black waters, followed still the rhythms of its dark clock, set for its species a quarter of a billion years ago in a vanished, distant, sunlit world. |
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| 17 | 151 |
These are those of his species, of his kind of being, of his realm of animal. |
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| 17 | 255 |
The teeth of the Old One, like that of the long-bodied sharks of Gor, and related marine species, as well as similarly evolved forms of Earth, bend rearward; each bite anchors the bitten material, which can be dislodged conveniently only in the direction of the throat. |
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| 20 | 47 |
Men seemed puny allies to either species. |
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| 24 | 419 |
"You are all of the same species," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 2115 |
Profoundly, I suppose, these things have to do with nature and her lovely mysteries, encoded genetically into the very heritage of a species, yes, there, a thousand leagues beneath the superficial trivialities of politics and convention, with dominance and submission. |
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| 22 | 54 |
Certain related species thrive on crustaceans found among aquatic flora. |
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| 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... |
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| 22 | 361 |
In any event, the Gorean culture is designed to celebrate and enhance nature, not to frustrate her, not to sicken and poison her; in nature there is complementarity; there is dominance and submission; that is in the genes of a thousand species, including our own; if the dice of genetics ever, long a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 12 |
We know little about that species of animal called the Kur. |
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| 1 | 18 |
The remnants of a shattered species then, as a world burned below them, turned hunting to the plains of the stars. |
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| 2 | 654 |
Not all members of a species of sleen migrate. |
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| 5 | 43 |
"There is a brotherhood of professional soldiers," I said, "which I suspect crosses the boundaries of species". |
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| 8 | 211 |
Yet it was true, surely, that Priest-Kings were not an aggressive species. |
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| 31 | 110 |
"That is perhaps a drawback to it as a species," I said. |
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| 31 | 134 |
"Is not civilization as great an achievement for your species as for mine?" it asked. |
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| 31 | 169 |
"Humans, as I understand it, have two sexes, which, among them, perform all the functions pertinent to the continuance of the species". |
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| 31 | 194 |
It is on such that the continuance of the species depends. |
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| 31 | 207 |
In the human species it takes several months for a female to carry and deliver an offspring. |
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| 31 | 255 |
This occasional, almost inexplicable transformation of a nondominant into a dominant is the reason our biologists differ as to whether our species has three, or four sexes". |
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| 31 | 259 |
"The restriction of mating to the dominants," I said, "plus the selections in the killings, must tend to produce a species unusually aggressive and savage". |
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| 32 | 146 |
"Never to men, never to another species," said the beast. |
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| 34 | 70 |
A Kur, thus, requires a smaller time interval than many species between eating heavily and engaging in demanding physical behaviors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 32 | 184 |
Others, though not at the same time, even in the same species, will lose their foliage for a few weeks and then again produce buds and a new set of leaves. |
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| 32 | 207 |
Along the river, of course, many other species of birds may be found, such as jungle gants, tufted fishers and ring-necked and yellow-legged waders. |
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| 32 | 208 |
Also in the ground zone are varieties of snake, such as the ost and hith, and numerous species of insects. |
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| 32 | 483 |
What is meant to be conveyed in the latter context is that according to a respected nature's decree, having to do with a thousand subtleties, principles, and genetic linkages, the male in our species is dominant, and powerfully so, not the female. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 18 | 163 |
I rather liked the odors of the stables and barns, such complex mixed odors, ranging from straw, and hay and leather, to the organic wastes of our huge charges, some four species of draft tharlarion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 571 |
"Perhaps such opinions subserve the purposes of ambitious and eccentric minorities," she said, "and that is doubtless an important point in their favor, but they do not seem to advance the cause of a civilization congenial to the nature of the human species as it is in actuality constituted". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 19 | 922 |
Indeed, it is doubtless easier for the Earth girl for, on Earth, she is subject to a number of concealed bondages, whereas on Gor she encounters an open, honest bondage, and one natural to, and indigenous to, the human species, the subjection of the female of the species to the male of the species. |
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| 20 | 1648 |
In certain relationships, a species flourishes; in others it sickens and dies, or becomes an envying, unhappy, intimidated, eroded, miasmic bog of mediocrity and conformity. |
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| 20 | 1930 |
What scoundrel, I wondered, would refuse to satisfy the needs of the female of his species? I kicked the girl with the side of my foot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 260 |
Such stories, for they were very old on Gor, probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most Goreans only as the Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 327 |
"It might interest you to know that, from their point of view, they commonly regard humans as subrational, as an inferior species, and, indeed, one they commonly think of in terms little other than of food". |
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| 1 | 366 |
Too, they regard themselves as more intelligent than ourselves, and as being a dominant species". |
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| 1 | 403 |
These things have been selected for in their bloody species. |
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| 1 | 669 |
"Their race has not yet achieved species unification," said the larger of the two creatures, to his fellow. |
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| 1 | 672 |
I wondered, hearing this, if the beasts, either, had achieved species unification. |
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| 1 | 679 |
Species unification, I suspected, would prove not to be a blessing, but a trap and a bane, a pathology and curse, a societal sanitarium in which the great and strong would be reduced to, or must pretend to be reduced to, the level of the blinking, the cringing, the creeping and the tiny. |
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| 1 | 686 |
"It is unfortunate," said Sardak, speaking to Kog, "that they have not achieved species unification. |
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| 1 | 1230 |
Similarly fellows of our species, or their descendants, lapsed into barbarism, seldom roam the Barrens. |
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| 13 | 1459 |
"In English, as I see now, interestingly, virginity is spoken of as a positive property, and nonvirginity, in spite of its obvious and momentous importance, and even its necessity, presumably, for the continuation of the species, seems to be regarded as being merely the absence of a property, or the... |
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| 13 | 1768 |
In health, they are the fit rulers in the kingdom of our species. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 225 |
It has consequences, at any rate, which seem to be in the best interests of the kailiauk as a species. |
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| 7 | 507 |
The denial and frustration of nature, the betrayal and subversion of sexuality, it is possible, may not be in the long-term best interest of the human species. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 24 | 145 |
I had begun to sense on this perilous, primitive, beautiful world what might be the natural relationship between man and woman, a relationship expressive of the character of a species hewn by eons of evolution rather than local agendas and expediencies dictated by a subglandular minority's self-serv... |
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| 26 | 285 |
This has to do, it seems, with deep psychological feelings, feelings probably connected with the woman's desire to submit and fulfill her biological destiny, this perhaps being a manifestation, within the human species, of the dominance/submission ratios endemic in nature. |
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| 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. |
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| 34 | 60 |
The designs of nature facilitate the flourishing of species; her denial paves the way to the arctics of degeneration and extinction. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 145 |
Certain species of urts migrate twice a year. |
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| 8 | 149 |
The urt, on the whole, most species of which are quite small, large enough to be lifted in one hand, does not pose much direct threat to human beings. |
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| 9 | 298 |
I thought rather the palimpsest was within us, the languages not so much forgotten as sometimes denied, that one dealt here indeed with deep and profound matters, but not really with obscure encipherments; rather one was here dealing with a doctrine written indelibly and ineradicably, indisputably a... |
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| 14 | 364 |
That would explain why a strange urt, though even of the pack's own species, would be fallen upon and killed if it attempted to join the pack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 25 | 351 |
How incredibly meaningful, how explosively and thunderingly meaningful, how devastatingly meaningful, how momentously significant they were, these females of my species, presenting themselves before me in the modalities incumbent upon them, modalities constituting, as suggested, civilized and delici... |
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| 25 | 1373 |
These things would be connected with her lack of feminine fulfillment, she not finding herself in her place, in her natural biological relationship, that of submissive to dominant, to the male of her species. |
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| 25 | 1887 |
Did she really think the men of Earth were different from other men? Was she unaware of the pervasiveness of male dominance amongst mammalian species? To be sure, this matter had doubtless been omitted from her education. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 52 |
To be sure, she might not seem so to a crocodile or a tree but she should seem such to a male of her species, and that was what counted. |
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| 1 | 133 |
Did they not belong in some organic whole, in some natural relationship, selected for throughout time and history? The bee's dances betokened an avenue to nectar; the fragrance of the flower, seemingly such a meaningless thing of beauty, called forth, luring the bee to its pollen; the swiftness of t... |
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| 3 | 196 |
In this form of dance a woman becomes aware of the marvelous, profound complementarities of sexuality, that she, clearly, is the female, beautiful and desirable, and that they, watching her, being pleased, their eyes alit, strong and mighty, are different from her, that they are men, and that, in th... |
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| 3 | 747 |
In another sense, however, I am not an alien, as I am identically a member of your own species". |
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| 3 | 753 |
"And that is why I am so dangerous to you," he said, "because I am a member of your own species, because I understand you, because I know how you think, because I am familiar with your nasty little mind and emotions, your slynesses, your pettinesses, your selfishness, your stupid little tricks, ever... |
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| 4 | 178 |
"You are a modern woman," he said, "and, as such, you represent a perversion of humanity, a pernicious and wanton perversion, one maliciously deleterious to the centralities of human sexuality, both of the male and female, and thus one literally inimical not only to the quality but, ultimately, to t... |
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| 6 | 185 |
We were, after all, the females of their species. |
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| 6 | 327 |
How fearful it would be, I thought, if such a female, or such females, in all their hatred and frustration, should manage by lies, propaganda, misrepresentation, manipulation, distortion, chicanery and law, swiftly or gradually, perhaps almost unnoticeably, to bring about the ruination of the natura... |
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| 27 | 271 |
I was not of its species. |
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| 29 | 362 |
How I feared then for my species! I now wanted to be sold as quickly as possible to the brigands, and taken from this place, to be locked in the closed slave wagon. |
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| 34 | 175 |
It is as though all the forces of communication, education and law had gone insane, with no better objective than to bring the sexes to ruin, destroy the human gene pool and doom the species". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 958 |
In the modality of master and slave is found the recognition of, and institutionalization of, within a civilized framework of law, custom and tradition, the ancient complementarity of the sexes, a complementarity consequent upon the extreme and beautiful dimorphism, physically and psychologically, f... |
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| 23 | 94 |
Beneath the confusions, the teachings, the conditionings, the resentments, the envy, lies the natural woman, the animal, with its genetic heritage, the animal which in the way of nature, in our own and related species, is in the keeping of the male, subordinate and submissive to him, a relationship ... |
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| 24 | 514 |
Thus speak the genes of a radically dimorphic primate species. |
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| 24 | 764 |
Human beings tend to be superstitious and so I suppose it is only to be expected that an occupation would arise to capitalize upon this species characteristic. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 846 |
Perhaps, in time, as a matter of natural selections, operative upon a relatively, at that time, helpless species, those tended to survive whose mating impulses became synchronized with the moons. |
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| 3 | 849 |
Aside from this, it might be noted, of course, that the sexual cycles of various species do tend to be correlated with the cycles of the moon, presumably through one natural selection or another. |
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| 3 | 850 |
The Kurii, for example, seem to have retained some vestiges along these lines, for in that species, as I understand it, it is not unusual for females to go to the mating cliffs in the moonlight, where, helpless in their sexuality, they cry out, or howl, their needs. |
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| 10 | 427 |
This is because of the psychological dimorphism of the human species, that the female's fulfillment lies in her subjection to, and subjugation by, a strong male. |
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| 12 | 25 |
It has erotic significance, or symbolism, in two ways, first, it expresses the social and cultural relations in which the master and slave stand, that she is his property, sexual and otherwise, and that he may do with her what he wishes, for he is master, and, second, perhaps more profoundly, it exp... |
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| 19 | 217 |
He was particularly suspicious of the claim that the human species had an extraterrestrial origin, namely, that it did not originate on his own world, Gor. |
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| 21 | 296 |
I wonder sometimes if such as I, a person, and such as you, no more than a beast, are even members of the same species. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 636 |
This suggested surely that the men here were cross-fertile with women such as I, and, thus, presumably, that we, despite the seeming considerable differences between us, were actually of the same species. |
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| 14 | 273 |
I supposed, of course, that we were both females, but, in a sense, within that genus, of two quite disparate species, one free, one slave. |
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| 21 | 14 |
The true woman is a biological concept, relative to a species, its nature, and the conditions germane to its fulfillment". |
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| 37 | 325 |
Most species of urts are small, weighing less than a pound. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 139 |
Tell us all about men and women, and social artifacts, and roles, and such things, how conventional everything is, and political and capricious, and how the human species, alone of all the other species, has no nature, and how genetics is meaningless, and biology false, and endocrinology irrelevant,... |
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| 13 | 282 |
Certainly the females of many animal species, and even of many primate species, do not have such hip structure, such fullness of bosom, and such. |
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| 12 | 301 |
Perhaps human beings had a nature, like other species. |
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| 12 | 325 |
To speak as though absolute equality, save doubtless in merit, or value, each marvelous in their own very different way, could exist between absolute unequals, things as diverse as a male and a female, was at best an idle social ritual, and, at worst, a pathological lie which, if taken seriously, if... |
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| 16 | 392 |
On Earth, of course, no deleterious consequences of such charades and antics are likely to occur; indeed, they may earn their practitioners commendations from pathological quarters in which it is not permitted to so much as whisper of nature and the biotruths of a species; indeed, further, such expo... |
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| 16 | 847 |
This, in its folklike way, recognizes not only that the human species is radically sexually dimorphic, but that this dimorphism is profoundly relevant to sexuality. |
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| 16 | 884 |
To be sure, its ends might be achieved more easily by destroying the offspring of all males who show evidence of virility or genetically engineering a new species, a more bovine or insectoidal form of life. |
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| 16 | 888 |
Surely even that world, finding itself on the brink of species suicide, might be expected to draw back in horror. |
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| 20 | 450 |
The tarn is not an aquatic species, and resists being flown out of the sight of land. |
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| 22 | 156 |
It is quite likely that, in the history of the human species, thousands of women have begged for their lives by dancing naked before severe captors, and that the case even in historical times, before Chaldeans and Hittites, Assyrians and Babylonians, Greeks and Romans, Goths, Mongols, Crusaders, Tur... |
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| 22 | 162 |
And these genes would then be transmitted to future generations, assisting in the shaping of a species. |
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| 26 | 1154 |
Could an entire species be in error? And I knew too much history, over a thousand generations, to suppose that the biography of a race was an inexplicable accident, a mere haphazard contingency that might as easily have been otherwise, that it was without meaning or foundation, that there no reason ... |
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| 27 | 115 |
Doubtless there were subconscious depths and mysteries here which eluded superficial explanations, which eluded the facile, at-hand, convenient, shallow categories of the ideologically conditioned understanding, which defied political mockeries of human nature, a reference to realities which lay dee... |
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| 27 | 670 |
Perhaps it had succumbed to geological upheavals, or other natural catastrophes, perhaps meteoritic bludgeonings from space, eradicating entire species, or from sun flares which might scald a world, or from an uprooting which might produce a moon and leave behind a vast basin to be filled with water... |
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| 27 | 672 |
Perhaps it had perished of some hastening, virulent disease specific to a species, which then, its hosts vanished, must itself perish. |
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| 27 | 702 |
"I am willing to suppose that something, call it Priest-Kings, if you wish, might once have existed, long ago, but, if so, they are gone by now, and are at best a vanished race, an extinct species somehow recalled obscurely in legends, myths and lore". |
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| 27 | 1889 |
Yes, yes, she thought, they speak truths, mighty truths, lovely truths, deep truths, incontrovertible truths, precious truths, yes, such as I are indeed for the entertainment of men, for the sport of men, of masters! It is that for which we exist, and desire to exist, the pleasure of men, the entert... |
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| 27 | 3300 |
The human species as she knew, but would not have called it to the attention of her classes, was radically, sexually dimorphic. |
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| 27 | 3301 |
It thus seemed natural that some division of labors, however such things might be sorted out, might be expected in a species characterized by such disparate natures. |
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| 28 | 33 |
No wonder then that the human male, on Earth, often thought of the women of his species as being, however desirable, essentially sexless creatures, as being sexually minimal and torpid, as being above sex, or disinterested in it, as being, in effect, inert and frigid. |
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| 30 | 34 |
It is sad, one supposes, to see one's species domesticated, to see this done to our race, and seemingly to be done with its consent, too, a race which might otherwise have become children of the stars. |
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| 18 | 34 |
The Kur male, like the human male, tends to be larger and stronger than the female of the species, which may well account for the survival of the species, as the female must be impregnated with or without her consent if the species is to survive. |
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| 1 | 1021 |
Consider, for example, matters pervasive within higher, or more complex, species, such as the ratios of dominance and submission, and then consider, too, in particular, the human species, which is clearly and radically sexually dimorphic, and in a thousand ways. |
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| 2 | 230 |
And he was now Gorean, and Goreans see the females of their species as, literally, the females of their species. |
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| 12 | 24 |
"I am sorry if you were distressed," said Pyrrhus, "but you must understand that your species is a food species. |
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| 16 | 15 |
As a complacent and arrogant pet of Kurii, and priding herself as such, a species so superior on the Steel World, she was inclined on the whole to be contemptuous of her own species, which she understood, perhaps appropriately, as an inferior life form. |
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| 20 | 82 |
"If I am guilty of treason," he continued, "it is not treason against the species and the world, but against one who would betray the honor of the species and the world, a dissembler and deceiver, an opportunist and thief, a liar and seeker of power, a true traitor to worth, nobility, and valor". |
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| 1 | 77 |
In the human species, aside from some unusual specimens, there are two sexes. |
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| 1 | 79 |
Interestingly, the biological functions of conception, gestation, and nurturance in the human species are all centered in a single sex, that of the female. |
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| 1 | 84 |
Indeed, the technology of the nurturant might have been obtained from another species. |
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| 1 | 86 |
These thing are lost in the prehistory of a species, so to speak, or at least in the time from which no histories remain. |
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| 1 | 202 |
It is clear they were females, as the human species is characterized by an obvious and radical sexual dimorphism. |
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| 1 | 205 |
Too, as is common in the human species, these two females were considerably smaller than the average male, and considerably weaker. |
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| 1 | 238 |
A consequence of this lack of hair, or fur, is that the species, in its wanderings and migrations, certainly into colder areas, must clothe itself. |
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| 1 | 240 |
Clothing also, it seems, interestingly, is often worn by the species even when it is not climatologically indicated, and, indeed, sometimes when it is even uncomfortable. |
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| 1 | 248 |
One does not note with surprise that such complementarities should occur in a species so sexually dimorphic. |
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| 1 | 261 |
But one suspects they are, as yet, as a species, scarcely capable of what one might call "lower learning". |
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| 1 | 285 |
Accordingly one gathers she is a most excellent example of human female, highly intelligent, healthy, nicely curved, and quite beautiful, at least for the species, and acutely sexually needful. |
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| 1 | 301 |
Absent a species for a single generation from socialization and we have not even barbarians, only animals. |
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| 1 | 311 |
They might then be raised for a time in containers, several months, say, or implanted in the bodies of various host mothers, of various suitable species, human or otherwise, for a natural birth later. |
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| 1 | 325 |
We supposed, originally, then, that they were placed in the container for his pleasure, for human males commonly derive great pleasure from the females of their species, a pleasure of which they avail themselves avidly and frequently, a pleasure not limited to certain hours or seasons, but one sough... |
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| 1 | 333 |
She had been, after all, the grooming pet of a Kur master, and held herself, accordingly, superior to others of her species. |
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| 1 | 342 |
It identified her master in Kur, and gave her much standing amongst those of her species. |
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| 1 | 404 |
He was much larger, and somehow much different, it seemed, from the few males of her species with which she was familiar. |
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| 1 | 416 |
She was very proud to be walked by her master, and she did not wish to be confused with others of her species, inferior sorts, whom she despised, strays, scavengers, and such. |
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| 1 | 439 |
There could be no doubt as to the relationships involved, nor as to the rankings of species, nor as to her own nature, and the appropriateness of it, that of a harmless, caressable pet. |
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| 1 | 493 |
She was not behaving as would one of her species, as the Steel Worlds' girl understood such things. |
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| 1 | 856 |
It seemed that these two humans, members of her own species, actually communicated with one another, rather as did the Kurii. |
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| 1 | 1022 |
Would it really seem so surprising if amongst sexes so different there might not be diverse rightnesses? What if, say, in a given species, for example, the human, nature had chosen to breed not neuters, but, say, dominants and submissives, or, to speak more clearly, masters and slaves. |
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| 1 | 1254 |
Did the blonde not even know enough to cover herself, as did the brunette, at least to the extent possible? Many facial expressions and bodily words, so to speak, in the human species are presumably genetically coded, at least with respect to their templates, as they are amongst other Earth primates... |
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| 1 | 1255 |
In any event, whether in virtue of these species characteristics, or in virtue of her experiences in her Steel World, the blonde took instant umbrage at the brunette's expression, and bared her canines and hissed viciously at the brunette, who drew back, frightened. |
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| 2 | 127 |
"They have no masters?" "If so, only of their own species," he said. |
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| 2 | 140 |
The strength of a human is small, compared to that of a superior species, such as that of the Kur. |
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| 2 | 147 |
This surprised Cabot, for the species enjoys living meat. |
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| 2 | 242 |
She had, largely through her upbringing, primarily by servants, occasionally abetted by a distant father and a supercilious, frigid, unhappy mother, and a desire to be faultlessly au courant, quite ambivalent attitudes toward the male sex of her species. |
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| 2 | 379 |
One really wonders about the rationality of the human species. |
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| 2 | 380 |
What could he, alone, weaponless, have done in her behalf, or in his own? Perhaps there are genetic predispositions to madness in the human species. |
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| 8 | 16 |
Cabot supposed that the Kurii might originally have been a species which sought out lairs, dark places, caves, and such. |
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| 8 | 124 |
"We hoped that Grendel might be acceptable to your species, being taken, in effect, as human, and might well serve us in our relationships with humans, as an intermediary". |
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| 8 | 159 |
"Such things have often taken place on Earth," said Cabot, "though the collusion, the veiling, and such, has not been between species". |
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| 10 | 97 |
She should be so at the feet of one of her own species, at the feet of a man, her master. |
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| 10 | 168 |
"You are not displeased," said Pyrrhus, "to see her, a female of your own species, and one seemingly so important to you that you have sought her out here, so reduced, now chained and collared, now no more than a Kur pet?" "Not at all," said Cabot. |
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| 11 | 57 |
Indeed, Kur young must learn to distinguish amongst different members of their own species". |
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| 12 | 50 |
"But is she not a well-shaped female of your species, of the sort that men enjoy owning?" "She will do," said Cabot. |
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| 14 | 43 |
Too, he might have hoped that after a suitable interval his colleagues' work might prove unnecessary, for Cabot might in the meantime have succumbed to other terrors of the forest, presumably wild beasts of one sort or another, perhaps even to those dangerous prey animals of his own species. |
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| 18 | 2 |
Presumably, too, it ill behooves a member of one species to comment on peculiarities in the behavior of another. |
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| 18 | 14 |
She was, as I understand it, a comely female of his species. |
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| 18 | 27 |
It is an act not uncommon amongst humans, or, indeed, certain other species, but it is not universal even amongst humans. |
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| 18 | 36 |
To be sure, much depends on the nature of the species. |
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| 18 | 201 |
To be sure, she had been used against them, willingly or not, and Kurii do not tend to be a benevolently disposed, understanding or forgiving species. |
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| 18 | 243 |
Being Kur, you see, is not always a simple, descriptive term denoting a particular species. |
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| 19 | 62 |
There is amongst some species, including Kurii, a common belief that the wild animal is somehow superior to the domestic animal, but this is usually false. |
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| 20 | 8 |
He did protest his innocence of treason, and his insistence that he had never acted otherwise than in the best interests of the species and the world. |
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| 20 | 81 |
"And let this, too, be so recorded, and I speak as Kur," called Pyrrhus, his voice rising from the cement pit, in which, to rings, he was chained, "I am guilty of no treason against the species or the world!" This caused a considerable stir on the tiers, for it was clear Lord Pyrrhus had spoken as K... |
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| 21 | 111 |
One might note that in the human species the sexes are radically dimorphic, anatomically, emotionally, psychologically, and so on. |
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| 21 | 503 |
There was much silence in the stands, and then several of the Kurii smote their thighs, acknowledging this gesture of respect to one of their species, albeit from one hitherto deemed not Kur, but no more than a malformed thing, a misbred brute, an abomination, a monster. |
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| 22 | 185 |
"Perhaps two and a half silver tarsks?" It is difficult to speculate on these matters, but it seems clear she was a beauty, given the limitations of her species. |
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| 22 | 186 |
To be sure, she was fresh to her bondage, had received little training, and knew little, at that time, of a slave's major concern, that of serving and pleasing, selflessly, intimately and inordinately, the males of her species. |
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| 29 | 116 |
"It would have to do with the natures favored by natural selection, in our species, interestingly, a radical sexual dimorphism, not only anatomically but psychologically, and the desire on the part of the smaller animal to submit and serve, to be owned and mastered, and that of the larger animal to ... |
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| 33 | 122 |
Another large head, similar to the first, though perhaps of a different species of aquatic tharlarion, had broken the surface. |
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| 33 | 126 |
This head was similar to that of the first, doubtless of the same species. |
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| 44 | 45 |
Such unpleasantries are often associated with the altercations of rational species. |
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| 44 | 47 |
Indeed, interestingly, in the tensions, and the exigencies, and terrors, of war, each species was beginning to see the other in a different light, the one less as monster than colleague, the other less as food than friend. |
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| 45 | 209 |
You are not even of his species". |
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| 51 | 187 |
"It pleased him, I think," said Cabot, "to be served by a human, one of what he doubtless regards as an inferior species". |
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| 54 | 91 |
"All rational species have slavery," said Cabot. |
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| 55 | 93 |
Kurii, it might be mentioned, are not the only species which take the females of other groups for mates, thralls, servants, slaves, and such. |
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| 55 | 94 |
It is common amongst rational species. |
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| 56 | 204 |
That these species could be allied at all would astonish Kurii, and the more so that their alliance might prove fruitful. |
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| 60 | 61 |
"Kur ways, such as striking first, retaliating instantly, seeking vengeance, annihilating an enemy, eliminating weakness, punishing failure, improving the folk, pledging loyalty, and keeping it, unquestioning obedience to command, ruthlessness, breeding for Kur virtues, power and energy, savagery, i... |
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| 79 | 168 |
Who but barbarians would poison their foods, pollute the air they breathed and the water they drank, would live lives of unhealthy deprivation and misery, would wrap their bodies in clumsy, malformed, constricting garments, would congratulate themselves on denying themselves the natural gratificatio... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 140 |
Had it not been for the governance of Priest-Kings, and their surveillance, and the enforcement of their prohibitions on technology and weaponry, I had little doubt that the suspicions, fears, and simian ingenuity of my species on Gor would have by now produced lethalities equivalent to, if not supe... |
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| 5 | 143 |
I supposed that the human species was one of the few species with the capacity to render itself extinct. |
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| 5 | 144 |
I doubted that the Priest-Kings were overly concerned with the welfare of humans, but it seemed clear that they had no intention of sharing the psychotic pastimes of such a species, or of enduring the consequences of its stupidities, hence their weapon and technology laws. |
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| 9 | 17 |
In a sense they had betrayed a world, and a species. |
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| 9 | 260 |
Putting aside cultural and historical considerations, as somehow irrelevant, surprisingly so, or illegitimate, astonishingly so, one might ponder whether or not biology is relevant to the matter, for example the radical sexual dimorphism of the human species, genetic predispositions, the pervasive r... |
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| 12 | 93 |
The ships of such slavers were furnished currently, or originally, as the case might be, by the Steel Worlds, as the sophisticated technologies involved would be far beyond that of Gorean humans, and, currently, at least, beyond those of Earth, who were not even subjected to the weapon and technolog... |
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| 18 | 172 |
If this is the case, it seemed they may have overestimated the rationality of the human species, or underestimated the lengths to which it might go to acquire land, wealth, women, and other valuables. |
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| 18 | 175 |
To be sure, other theories might be proposed, too, for example that warfare conducted under such conditions might tend to improve the species, selecting for, say, intelligence, quickness, agility, and so on. |
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| 22 | 516 |
They may, however, revel in it, as in admiration of the lines of any fine animal, and, of course, they are likely, given the commonality of species and their maleness, to find it potently arousing, and sometimes irresistibly so. |
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| 38 | 420 |
This is related to the radical sexual dimorphism of the human species, the obvious complementarity of the sexes, and the dominance/submission ratios pervasive in nature. |
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| 44 | 121 |
From the body and mind of your slave extract the most exquisite and inordinate pleasures that a human male can know, the mastery of a female of his species. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 20 |
This mammal, which usually preys on insects and small urts, like several species of birds, is communally territorial. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 109 |
I know little of the biology, or history, of the Kur species, but I have gathered that it, perhaps like the human species, long ago in its past, may have frequented caves, using them as dens or lairs. |
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| 31 | 112 |
Humans are a weak and inferior species, a vermin species, appropriately to be supplanted by a superior life form. |
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| 4 | 146 |
What might I learn, what might I find? I did know that I was a scion of a series of species bred for thousands of generations for a world quite different from the one in which I found myself, a world less populated, greener, more open, more perilous perhaps, and certainly more beautiful. |
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| 4 | 260 |
It struck me as strange that she had used the expression 'in this world'? What other world could there be? Could there be another world, one in which one need not strive to ignore or repudiate what one truly was? Was it so wrong, to be true to one's nature, whatever it might be? Was nature so terrib... |
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| 8 | 1987 |
Too, once they had been truly knelt, their sexual drives and needs would begin to rage within them; they would become aware of their biological being and its nature, that they were biologically the properties of men; and, pursuant to these understandings and bodily changes, and knowing themselves ch... |
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| 10 | 24 |
Rescue me! Do not let me be taken by this beast!" Surely they must have some pity, or feeling, for one who was, after all, a female of their own species, though one with a brand incised into her left thigh. |
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| 10 | 60 |
To be sure, the very condition of bondage itself, aside from questions of restraint, with its signals, rituals, garmentures, behaviors, accouterments, expectations, and such, is richly and profoundly sexual; it is a way of life, a richly sexual way of life, and, given the radical sexual dimorphism o... |
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| 10 | 1196 |
Certainly we were all of the same species, and all in our collars. |
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| 16 | 148 |
What had been done, I wondered, to the men of my former world? How superior to me, in so many ways, were these brutes of Gor! How slave I felt before them! Were such as I not fittingly owned by such as they, as the females of so many species of my former world were, in effect, owned by their males? ... |
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| 17 | 191 |
Supposedly the Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they might be, concerned to protect the two worlds of Tor-tu-Gor, in particular, Gor, a generally undamaged world, and their own, would allow this alliance, provided their weapon and technology laws were respected, laws designed to keep dangerous powe... |
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| 27 | 30 |
They could, however, easily distinguish men from women, given the radical sexual differences of form in our species. |
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| 27 | 38 |
Thus, there is an ambiguity amongst Kurii with respect to something which one would suppose would be easy to determine, namely, the number of sexes in the species. |
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| 27 | 115 |
Interestingly, most districts within the "Cave" seemed to have been constructed with humans in mind, perhaps to suggest a kinship of outlook and values betwixt the species. |
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| 31 | 128 |
"I am told that Priest-Kings regard us as rather equivalent species". |
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| 33 | 117 |
Part Kur, he was perhaps more than Kur, adding to the horror of one species the worst of another. |
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| 52 | 221 |
"But you came to understand, I trust," I said, "that she was not some sort of traitress to a species or world, a cognizant conspirator, a cooperating, malevolent, unscrupulous villainess?" "That sort of thing would have serious consequences," he said, "for a free woman, one supposes impalement, and,... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 89 |
In this sense, in several species, the primary competition seems not so much directly for mates, as for food, and survival, for the achievement of territory, a consequence of which is likely to be access to one or more females, depending on the species. |
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| 3 | 19 |
What are the credentials of a dictatorship which would review thought, circumscribe belief, and capture the coercive powers of a state in order to protect and propagate a favored orthodoxy? Yet, to be sure, such crimes are muchly precedent in the history of a world; they are perennially familiar to ... |
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| 5 | 203 |
Why should a man be ashamed of his feelings, and desires, and why should a woman be ashamed of her feelings and desires? Did it truly take ten thousand generations to discover that nature was a mistake? Is it not surprising to be taught the subversion of one's nature, to be ashamed of, deny, and fig... |
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| 13 | 145 |
As far as I can determine the men and women of Earth, my former world, and those of Gor are clearly of the same species. |
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| 17 | 78 |
How miserable I was, there, kneeling alone on the boards! How I hated him! And all men! Why could they not be like the men of Earth, sweet, understanding, sensitive, weak, confused, timid, eager to please, easily guided, suitably conditioned, manipulable, repudiators of nature, betrayers of their bl... |
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| 43 | 1161 |
I was well pleased that there were two sexes in my species, and that they were so different. |
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| 48 | 87 |
Claiming and maintaining a territory can also figure in successful mating, as females of various species will seek out territory masters, and present themselves, wooing and seducing, for acceptance or rejection. |
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| 49 | 143 |
"They are of the same species". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 75 |
It was obvious, given the technologies involved in such a suspension of consciousness and such a methodology of transition that either the Priest-Kings or the Kurii, or both, had chosen to intervene in what might otherwise have been regarded as little more than a final battle in a minor war in a far... |
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| 20 | 465 |
I think she still thought of Pertinax in the terms of Gregory White, a Gregory White who, in a sense, no longer existed, at least in the terms in which she thought of him, a Gregory White who had been shy, diffident, insecure, weak, manageable, pathetic, reduced, and confused, the victim of a pathol... |
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| 21 | 80 |
So let us suppose these mighty species, to whom we were aliens, and of little independent interest, had arrived at an agreement, that we were to be the dice in their dark game, the dice to be cast on the mat of a world. |
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| 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... |
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| 45 | 58 |
It is also a world housing a species which, from your point of view, would be alien. |
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| 45 | 63 |
"But there is another species involved, too, in these things, which, too, for similar reasons, I shall refrain from describing. |
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| 45 | 68 |
Skirmishes and altercations have taken place for generations between these two species, the Kurii wishing to obtain this world and the Priest-Kings, naturally, to retain it. |
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| 45 | 72 |
"The Priest-Kings," I said, "are a largely subterranean species". |
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| 45 | 95 |
"With so much at stake," I said, "in effect, a planet, for Kurii would not long be likely to peaceably share a world with Priest-Kings or any others, and surely Priest-Kings would realize the danger of admitting a technologically advanced, aggressive species like the Kurii to their world, it seems p... |
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| 49 | 86 |
Any Kur can instantly tell a male human from a female human, in virtue of the radical sexual dimorphism characterizing the human species. |
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| 58 | 238 |
Were these not independent, powerful, sovereign species, under no shared law, subject to no common sovereign, capable of imposing its will, but rather stood opposite one another in a state of nature, rather as two larls might face one another, snarling, contesting territory. |
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| 61 | 769 |
How could I speak to her of warring species, of Priest-Kings and Kurii, of fabulous weapons and technologies, of a fearful contest on which the fate of worlds might hang? "You are a despicable tarsk," she said. |
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| 61 | 820 |
"The men of Earth and those of Gor," I said, "are of the same species. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 288 |
I do not know if this is a portion of the biological heritage of the Kur species, or if it was introduced technologically, by medical intervention, at some point in the development of the species". |
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| 8 | 263 |
Species, equipped and resolute, are at war. |
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| 8 | 346 |
"You spoke of war, and of species, before," I said. |
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| 17 | 44 |
But rather I think it had more to do with the radical dimorphism of the sexes in our species, divided essentially into the master sex and the slave sex. |
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| 21 | 12 |
I had now realized, for the first time, perhaps belatedly, certainly foolishly, that intelligence, rationality, a capacity to calculate and plan, to pursue far goals, might not be limited to my species, but that the dark selections of evolution, in their impersonal, blind processes, without heart, m... |
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| 33 | 79 |
"Kurii," said Kurik, "are a dangerous, rational, technologically advanced species. |
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| 33 | 427 |
One of your own species, so to speak. |
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| 34 | 114 |
"These latter beasts," he said, "of which I conjecture, are much like gods, content unto themselves, with little interest in the politics and vicissitudes of mundane matters, and certainly not those of other species. |
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| 45 | 43 |
Perhaps they, these "high ones," did not care to share the dais with representatives of what they might regard as an inferior species. |
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| 53 | 133 |
How did I know what the dark selections of nature might have favored in the history of the Kur species? Indeed, it is not clear that it is rational to be rational in all situations. |
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| 55 | 15 |
Much was doubtless learned from the wolf, with which species, and its scions, humans would form their bond of thousands of years. |
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| 61 | 352 |
Hearing it, I was well reminded not only that I was a woman, but that I was, on this world, aside from the obvious biotruths of a species, a particular sort of woman, that here I was, in full and complete legality, naught but a property, a vendible, purchasable object. |
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| 61 | 907 |
Was it her fault that her form, and her wholeness, the whole of her, should so disturb, stimulate, provoke, and stir a male of her species, should bring about such mighty feelings, overwhelming and irresistible, of desire, lust, passion, and possessiveness? How was she to blame? Had these realities ... |
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| 62 | 89 |
A suspicious, thoughtless, bellicose, territorial, aggressive species is perhaps best limited to clubs and caves. |
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| 64 | 137 |
Humans constituted a radically, sexually dimorphic species. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 116 |
How do you think your date, your male friends, would view you, if they understood you were a slave? How would they think of you, how would they treat you? Would they pity you and commiserate with you, or would they do with you what they would feel like doing, would want to do, would have a right to ... |
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| 25 | 46 |
I thought of the radical sexual dimorphism of the human species, and the complementarities of nature. |
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| 38 | 95 |
Espionage is ancient; it may antedate the human species. |
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