Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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152
Then they would either take pity on me, or not, as it pleased them.
7
153
Sometimes, of course, we would be denied human speech.
7
154
At such times we must make known our needs by other means, such things as moans and whimpers, and tears.
7
155
But the primary purpose of the mark, one supposes, is not to be understood naively in such terms as its simple factual enhancement of our beauty, nor even in terms of how it makes us, those who wear it, feel, but rather, more simply, in virtue of more mundane considerations, such as its capacity to implement certain practical concerns of property, and merchant, law.
7
156
By its means, you see, we may conveniently be identified, and recognized.
7
157
But he had, I was sure, been interested in the particular brand I wore.
7
158
This was hard to understand, of course, as it was merely one of the numerous variations on the common mark.
Then they would either take pity on me, or not, as it pleased them.
Sometimes, of course, we would be denied human speech.
At such times we must make known our needs by other means, such things as moans and whimpers, and tears.
But the primary purpose of the mark, one supposes, is not to be understood naively in such terms as its simple factual enhancement of our beauty, nor even in terms of how it makes us, those who wear it, feel, but rather, more simply, in virtue of more mundane considerations, such as its capacity to implement certain practical concerns of property, and merchant, law.
By its means, you see, we may conveniently be identified, and recognized.
But he had, I was sure, been interested in the particular brand I wore.
This was hard to understand, of course, as it was merely one of the numerous variations on the common mark.
- (Witness of Gor, Chapter )