Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor (Context Quote)
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282
"I do not understand," I said, frightened.
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283
"Aging," he said, "is a physical process, like any other.
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284
It is, accordingly, accessible to physical influences.
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285
To be sure, it is a subtle and complex process.
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286
It took a thousand years to develop the stabilization serums.
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287
Our physicians regarded aging as a disease, the drying, withering disease, and so attacked it as a disease.
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288
They did not regard it as, say, a curse, or a punishment, or something inalterable or inexplicable, say, as some sort of destined, implacable fatality.
"I do not understand," I said, frightened.
"Aging," he said, "is a physical process, like any other.
It is, accordingly, accessible to physical influences.
To be sure, it is a subtle and complex process.
It took a thousand years to develop the stabilization serums.
Our physicians regarded aging as a disease, the drying, withering disease, and so attacked it as a disease.
They did not regard it as, say, a curse, or a punishment, or something inalterable or inexplicable, say, as some sort of destined, implacable fatality.
- (Dancer of Gor, Chapter )