Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 15 | 103 | Both the games and the races are popular in Ar, but, as I have indicated, the average man of Ar follows the races much more closely. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 15 | 100 | Beasts are also popular in the Stadium of Blades, and fights between various animals, half starved and goaded into fury by hot irons and whips, are common; sometimes the beasts fight beasts of the same species, and other times not; sometimes the beasts fight men, variously armed, or armed slave girls; sometimes, for the sport of the crowd, slaves or criminals are fed to the beasts. |
| 15 | 101 | The training of slaves and criminals for these fights, and the acquisition and training of the beasts is a large business in Ar, there being training schools for men, and compounds where the beasts, captured on expeditions to various parts of Gor and shipped to Ar, may be kept and taught to kill under the unnatural conditions of the stadium spectacle. |
| 15 | 102 | Upon occasion, and it had happened early in Se'Kara this year, the arena is flooded and a sea fight is staged, the waters for the occasion being filled with a variety of unpleasant sea life, water tharlarion, Vosk turtles, and the nine-gilled Gorean shark, the latter brought in tanks on river barges up the Vosk, to be then transported in tanks on wagons across the margin of desolation to Ar for the event. |
| 15 | 103 | Both the games and the races are popular in Ar, but, as I have indicated, the average man of Ar follows the races much more closely. |
| 15 | 104 | There are no factions, it might be mentioned, at the games. |
| 15 | 105 | Further, as might be expected, those who favor the games do not much go to the races, and those who favor the races do not often appear at the games. |
| 15 | 106 | The adherents of each entertainment, though perhaps equaling one another in their fanaticism, tend not to be the same men. |
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Beasts are also popular in the Stadium of Blades, and fights between various animals, half starved and goaded into fury by hot irons and whips, are common; sometimes the beasts fight beasts of the same species, and other times not; sometimes the beasts fight men, variously armed, or armed slave girls; sometimes, for the sport of the crowd, slaves or criminals are fed to the beasts.
The training of slaves and criminals for these fights, and the acquisition and training of the beasts is a large business in Ar, there being training schools for men, and compounds where the beasts, captured on expeditions to various parts of Gor and shipped to Ar, may be kept and taught to kill under the unnatural conditions of the stadium spectacle.
Upon occasion, and it had happened early in Se'Kara this year, the arena is flooded and a sea fight is staged, the waters for the occasion being filled with a variety of unpleasant sea life, water tharlarion, Vosk turtles, and the nine-gilled Gorean shark, the latter brought in tanks on river barges up the Vosk, to be then transported in tanks on wagons across the margin of desolation to Ar for the event.
Both the games and the races are popular in Ar, but, as I have indicated, the average man of Ar follows the races much more closely.
There are no factions, it might be mentioned, at the games.
Further, as might be expected, those who favor the games do not much go to the races, and those who favor the races do not often appear at the games.
The adherents of each entertainment, though perhaps equaling one another in their fanaticism, tend not to be the same men.
- (Assassin of Gor, Chapter 15)