Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | 85 | "Why have the men of gor not surrendered their natural dominance?" she asked. |
| 31 | 86 | "Why have they remained strong and proud, joyful and mighty, and free, so unlike the men of my world? Have they not been taught that it is wrong for them to be true men, that it is wrong for them to fulfill themselves and be happy? Have they not been taught that frustration, and conflict and misery, is the proper condition of the human male, that he is to be approved only in so far as he subjects himself to external standards, foreign to his own nature, that he is to be praised only in so far as he denies himself to himself, that he must avoid at all costs satisfying genetic realities locked in every cell in his body? Is it truly better for a man to torture his system, inflicting guilt and fear upon it, inducing irregularities within it, and to die prematurely of a variety of loathsome diseases than to be happy? I do not know. |
| 31 | 87 | I am only a woman. |
| 31 | 88 | Why are the men of gor different from those of Earth? Is it because poisoned minds were not brought to gor? Is it that it is only a matter of chance, that on Earth and not gor, due to a chance dynamic or a particular situation, the consequences of which were not understood, civilization developed not as the expression, celebration, and enhancement of nature, constituting a palace within which nature might thrive, but as its nemesis, its stunting foe? I do not know. |
| 31 | 89 | Perhaps those they call Priest-Kings, if they exist, have been thoughtful in this respect. |
| 31 | 90 | Or perhaps it is simply that the men of gor, unlike the men of Earth, do not choose to unman themselves. |
| 31 | 91 | Why should we do so, they might ask. |
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"Why have the men of gor not surrendered their natural dominance?" she asked.
"Why have they remained strong and proud, joyful and mighty, and free, so unlike the men of my world? Have they not been taught that it is wrong for them to be true men, that it is wrong for them to fulfill themselves and be happy? Have they not been taught that frustration, and conflict and misery, is the proper condition of the human male, that he is to be approved only in so far as he subjects himself to external standards, foreign to his own nature, that he is to be praised only in so far as he denies himself to himself, that he must avoid at all costs satisfying genetic realities locked in every cell in his body? Is it truly better for a man to torture his system, inflicting guilt and fear upon it, inducing irregularities within it, and to die prematurely of a variety of loathsome diseases than to be happy? I do not know.
I am only a woman.
Why are the men of gor different from those of Earth? Is it because poisoned minds were not brought to gor? Is it that it is only a matter of chance, that on Earth and not gor, due to a chance dynamic or a particular situation, the consequences of which were not understood, civilization developed not as the expression, celebration, and enhancement of nature, constituting a palace within which nature might thrive, but as its nemesis, its stunting foe? I do not know.
Perhaps those they call Priest-Kings, if they exist, have been thoughtful in this respect.
Or perhaps it is simply that the men of gor, unlike the men of Earth, do not choose to unman themselves.
Why should we do so, they might ask.
- (Explorers of Gor, Chapter )