Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 13 | 12 | Scent-dots, incidentally, are arranged in rows constituting a geometrical square, and are read beginning with the top row from left to right, then right to left, and then left to right and so on again. |
| 13 | 13 | Gorean, I might note, is somewhat similar, and though I speak Gorean fluently, I find it very difficult to write, largely because of the even-numbered lines which, from my point of view, must be written backwards. |
| 13 | 14 | Torm, my friend of the Caste of scribes, never forgave me this and to this day, if he lives, he undoubtedly considers me partly illiterate. |
| 13 | 15 | As he said, I would never make a scribe. |
| 13 | 16 | "It is simple," he said. |
| 13 | 17 | "You just write it forward but in the other direction". |
| 13 | 18 | The syllabary of Priest-Kings, not to be confused with their set of seventy-three "phonemes," consists of what seems to me to be a somewhat unwieldy four hundred and eleven characters, each of which stands of course for a phoneme or phoneme combination, normally a combination. |
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Scent-dots, incidentally, are arranged in rows constituting a geometrical square, and are read beginning with the top row from left to right, then right to left, and then left to right and so on again.
Gorean, I might note, is somewhat similar, and though I speak Gorean fluently, I find it very difficult to write, largely because of the even-numbered lines which, from my point of view, must be written backwards.
Torm, my friend of the Caste of scribes, never forgave me this and to this day, if he lives, he undoubtedly considers me partly illiterate.
As he said, I would never make a scribe.
"It is simple," he said.
"You just write it forward but in the other direction".
The syllabary of Priest-Kings, not to be confused with their set of seventy-three "phonemes," consists of what seems to me to be a somewhat unwieldy four hundred and eleven characters, each of which stands of course for a phoneme or phoneme combination, normally a combination.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )