Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 7 | 251 | Men, not so long ago, I recalled, had not even been permitted to recognize that they were animals. |
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 7 | 248 | I knew, of course, despite the fact that she was a woman and I was a man, and that she was then to me as my own slave and I to her as her true master, that I must not permit myself this pleasure. |
| 7 | 249 | It hinted too clearly at my dominance over her by nature, a dominance which I knew I must not permit myself to exercise, indeed, a dominance which I, of Earth, was not even supposed to permit myself to recognize. |
| 7 | 250 | It was not congenial to the contemporary political myths of my planet. |
| 7 | 251 | Men, not so long ago, I recalled, had not even been permitted to recognize that they were animals. |
| 7 | 252 | Now, it seemed, although they might be granted a token permission to recognize their animality, they were refused permission to recognize the sort of animals they were. |
| 7 | 253 | I wondered if there could be a politics which did not betray truth. |
| 7 | 254 | Perhaps such a politics, something beyond theater and myths, might someday emerge upon the forge of history. |
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I knew, of course, despite the fact that she was a woman and I was a man, and that she was then to me as my own slave and I to her as her true master, that I must not permit myself this pleasure.
It hinted too clearly at my dominance over her by nature, a dominance which I knew I must not permit myself to exercise, indeed, a dominance which I, of Earth, was not even supposed to permit myself to recognize.
It was not congenial to the contemporary political myths of my planet.
Men, not so long ago, I recalled, had not even been permitted to recognize that they were animals.
Now, it seemed, although they might be granted a token permission to recognize their animality, they were refused permission to recognize the sort of animals they were.
I wondered if there could be a politics which did not betray truth.
Perhaps such a politics, something beyond theater and myths, might someday emerge upon the forge of history.
- (Fighting Slave of Gor, Chapter 7)