Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
7
216
I had been taught how to live, and if, in abiding by the denials and negativities of my world, I was made unhappy and miserable, what did that matter, truly, in the larger scheme of things? Who did I think I was? Did I think that I was important? Is a lion, or a man, truly, more important than an insect or a flower? If there were more flowers than lions, or men, must not it be right to be a flower, and not a lion or a man? It may not be easy for lions or men to pretend to be flowers, but let them do their best.
I had been taught how to live, and if, in abiding by the denials and negativities of my world, I was made unhappy and miserable, what did that matter, truly, in the larger scheme of things? Who did I think I was? Did I think that I was important? Is a lion, or a man, truly, more important than an insect or a flower? If there were more flowers than lions, or men, must not it be right to be a flower, and not a lion or a man? It may not be easy for lions or men to pretend to be flowers, but let them do their best.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor, Chapter 7, Sentence #216)
Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
7
213
And who will tell a man not to be a man? Surely, too, the flowers, who might otherwise fear the tread of the heavy paw, the passing of the foot of the striding warrior.
7
214
Then I laughed, for it suddenly seemed to me absurd that such incredible conflicts should rage within me.
7
215
Surely I, a man of Earth, knew well how to live.
7
216
I had been taught how to live, and if, in abiding by the denials and negativities of my world, I was made unhappy and miserable, what did that matter, truly, in the larger scheme of things? Who did I think I was? Did I think that I was important? Is a lion, or a man, truly, more important than an insect or a flower? If there were more flowers than lions, or men, must not it be right to be a flower, and not a lion or a man? It may not be easy for lions or men to pretend to be flowers, but let them do their best.
7
217
Above all do not let the flowers know that there may be a man or a lion amongst them.
7
218
They would then be disturbed.
7
219
They would flutter their petals fiercely.
And who will tell a man not to be a man? Surely, too, the flowers, who might otherwise fear the tread of the heavy paw, the passing of the foot of the striding warrior.
Then I laughed, for it suddenly seemed to me absurd that such incredible conflicts should rage within me.
Surely I, a man of Earth, knew well how to live.
I had been taught how to live, and if, in abiding by the denials and negativities of my world, I was made unhappy and miserable, what did that matter, truly, in the larger scheme of things? Who did I think I was? Did I think that I was important? Is a lion, or a man, truly, more important than an insect or a flower? If there were more flowers than lions, or men, must not it be right to be a flower, and not a lion or a man? It may not be easy for lions or men to pretend to be flowers, but let them do their best.
Above all do not let the flowers know that there may be a man or a lion amongst them.
They would then be disturbed.
They would flutter their petals fiercely.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor, Chapter 7)