Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 14 | 374 | This secret, in the successive generations, might have been lost to the urt people, or, perhaps, it had been deliberately allowed to vanish in time by the discoverers of the secret, that others could not reveal it, or take advantage of it, to their detriment. |
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 14 | 371 | I suspected it had occurred hundreds of years ago. |
| 14 | 372 | Some very clever individual, or individuals, must have suspected the mechanisms involved. |
| 14 | 373 | They might then have considered how they might be circumvented. |
| 14 | 374 | This secret, in the successive generations, might have been lost to the urt people, or, perhaps, it had been deliberately allowed to vanish in time by the discoverers of the secret, that others could not reveal it, or take advantage of it, to their detriment. |
| 14 | 375 | Now, I supposed, the urt people, their children and such, would simply grow up with the packs, thinking perhaps that this was just the way things had been, inexplicably, or naturally, from time immemorial. |
| 14 | 376 | Yet is it not likely, I pondered, there would once have been a reason, or reasons. |
| 14 | 377 | Surely it is not always to be assumed that it is a mere inexplicable fact, a simple, brute given, something not to be inquired into, that things are as they now are. |
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I suspected it had occurred hundreds of years ago.
Some very clever individual, or individuals, must have suspected the mechanisms involved.
They might then have considered how they might be circumvented.
This secret, in the successive generations, might have been lost to the urt people, or, perhaps, it had been deliberately allowed to vanish in time by the discoverers of the secret, that others could not reveal it, or take advantage of it, to their detriment.
Now, I supposed, the urt people, their children and such, would simply grow up with the packs, thinking perhaps that this was just the way things had been, inexplicably, or naturally, from time immemorial.
Yet is it not likely, I pondered, there would once have been a reason, or reasons.
Surely it is not always to be assumed that it is a mere inexplicable fact, a simple, brute given, something not to be inquired into, that things are as they now are.
- (Players of Gor, Chapter 14)