Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 398 | It occurred to me how much refuge women have in a civilized world, protected by customs, by artifices, by conventions, by arrangements, by laws. |
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Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 395 | "A she-sleen," said the other. |
| 12 | 396 | "But I would like to get my hands on her," said the first fellow. |
| 12 | 397 | "I, too," laughed the second. |
| 12 | 398 | It occurred to me how much refuge women have in a civilized world, protected by customs, by artifices, by conventions, by arrangements, by laws. |
| 12 | 399 | Did they understand, I wondered, the tenuousness of such things, their fragility, their dependence on the will of men. |
| 12 | 400 | Did they wonder sometimes, I wondered, what might be their lot, or how they might fare, if such things were swept away, if suddenly they no longer existed? Did they understand that then they would as vulnerable as slaves? One wants a civilization, of course. |
| 12 | 401 | Civilizations are desirable. |
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"A she-sleen," said the other.
"But I would like to get my hands on her," said the first fellow.
"I, too," laughed the second.
It occurred to me how much refuge women have in a civilized world, protected by customs, by artifices, by conventions, by arrangements, by laws.
Did they understand, I wondered, the tenuousness of such things, their fragility, their dependence on the will of men.
Did they wonder sometimes, I wondered, what might be their lot, or how they might fare, if such things were swept away, if suddenly they no longer existed? Did they understand that then they would as vulnerable as slaves? One wants a civilization, of course.
Civilizations are desirable.
- (Vagabonds of Gor, Chapter 12)