Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 153 | It would not be pleasant to feel their whips. |
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Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 150 | Doubtless you would be kept in superb custody, if even the least sort of escape were remotely conceivable. |
| 1 | 151 | I wonder if you would learn quickly to serve them well, according to their tiniest caprices. |
| 1 | 152 | Yes, I thought, I would learn quickly and well. |
| 1 | 153 | It would not be pleasant to feel their whips. |
| 1 | 154 | I wept then, again, wondering if perhaps I had not been born elsewhere, perhaps time and time again, in other times, if I had not lived in Egypt or Sumer, or Chaldea, in rocky Hellas, or verdant Sybaris or bustling Miletus, if I had not been kept in the great palace in Persepolis, if I might not have seen Alexander, kneeling to him as a Persian slave, if I might not, a barbarian girl, have entered Rome in chains, herded before the chariot of a general, gracing with others his triumph, if I might not, as a Moslem girl, have served Crusaders in some remote fortress, or, as a Christian slave, found myself shamelessly exhibited and sold in an Arab market, thence to be taught to dance for masters. |
| 1 | 155 | Then I put such thoughts from my head. |
| 1 | 156 | I did not think the explanation for my needs, the mysterious things within me, which were so different from what I had been taught, could be so complex, or simple, as racial memories, or the memories of individuals whom I might have been in other places and times. |
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Doubtless you would be kept in superb custody, if even the least sort of escape were remotely conceivable.
I wonder if you would learn quickly to serve them well, according to their tiniest caprices.
Yes, I thought, I would learn quickly and well.
It would not be pleasant to feel their whips.
I wept then, again, wondering if perhaps I had not been born elsewhere, perhaps time and time again, in other times, if I had not lived in Egypt or Sumer, or Chaldea, in rocky Hellas, or verdant Sybaris or bustling Miletus, if I had not been kept in the great palace in Persepolis, if I might not have seen Alexander, kneeling to him as a Persian slave, if I might not, a barbarian girl, have entered Rome in chains, herded before the chariot of a general, gracing with others his triumph, if I might not, as a Moslem girl, have served Crusaders in some remote fortress, or, as a Christian slave, found myself shamelessly exhibited and sold in an Arab market, thence to be taught to dance for masters.
Then I put such thoughts from my head.
I did not think the explanation for my needs, the mysterious things within me, which were so different from what I had been taught, could be so complex, or simple, as racial memories, or the memories of individuals whom I might have been in other places and times.
- (Dancer of Gor, Chapter 1)