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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor (Context Quote)

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12 428 "Those presumably indicate the 'boards,'" he said.
12 429 "Begin for example, with a Kaissa board, with its one hundred squares, arranged in ten ranks and ten files.
12 430 Are you literate?" "Yes," I said.
12 431 Torm, my old friend, the scribe, might have expressed skepticism at the unqualified promptness and boldness of my asseveration, as I had always remained somewhat imperfect in writing the alternate lines of Gorean script, which are written from the right to the left, but, clearly, I could both read and, though admittedly with some difficulty, write Gorean.
12 432 Gorean is written, as it is said, as the ox plows.
12 433 The first line is written left to right, the second, right to left, the third, left to right again, and so on.
12 434 I had once been informed by my friend, Torm, that the whole business was quite simple, the alternate lines, in his opinion, at least, also being written forward, "only in the other direction".
"Those presumably indicate the 'boards,'" he said. "Begin for example, with a Kaissa board, with its one hundred squares, arranged in ten ranks and ten files. Are you literate?" "Yes," I said. Torm, my old friend, the scribe, might have expressed skepticism at the unqualified promptness and boldness of my asseveration, as I had always remained somewhat imperfect in writing the alternate lines of Gorean script, which are written from the right to the left, but, clearly, I could both read and, though admittedly with some difficulty, write Gorean. Gorean is written, as it is said, as the ox plows. The first line is written left to right, the second, right to left, the third, left to right again, and so on. I had once been informed by my friend, Torm, that the whole business was quite simple, the alternate lines, in his opinion, at least, also being written forward, "only in the other direction". - (Players of Gor, Chapter )