Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
18
78
There seems, incidentally, to be a general view among hostile cities that the women of the enemy belong to them in some sense, that they are already in some sense their slaves—it is then just a matter of bringing them into their rightful collars.
18
79
The committee of peers, so to speak, in the "trophy case," may either rule favorably or unfavorably on the catch.
18
80
Let us suppose they rule unfavorably.
18
81
The woman is then placed in a coarse, sacklike garment, usually a sul sack with holes cut in it for the head and arms, and returned scornfully, rejected, her wrists thonged behind her, to the vicinity of her city.
18
82
Occasionally this is done with a stunningly beautiful woman, which is to say to the enemy, "even the most beautiful of your women is not worthy of a collar in a city such as ours".
18
83
The effect on the woman, of course, is often pathetically unsettling.
18
84
It is not unusual that such a woman will afterwards take to wandering the high bridges and lonely streets, the hem of her garments hitched above her ankles, perhaps that she not soil them, her veils disarranged a bit, perhaps by the wind.
There seems, incidentally, to be a general view among hostile cities that the women of the enemy belong to them in some sense, that they are already in some sense their slaves—it is then just a matter of bringing them into their rightful collars.
The committee of peers, so to speak, in the "trophy case," may either rule favorably or unfavorably on the catch.
Let us suppose they rule unfavorably.
The woman is then placed in a coarse, sacklike garment, usually a sul sack with holes cut in it for the head and arms, and returned scornfully, rejected, her wrists thonged behind her, to the vicinity of her city.
Occasionally this is done with a stunningly beautiful woman, which is to say to the enemy, "even the most beautiful of your women is not worthy of a collar in a city such as ours".
The effect on the woman, of course, is often pathetically unsettling.
It is not unusual that such a woman will afterwards take to wandering the high bridges and lonely streets, the hem of her garments hitched above her ankles, perhaps that she not soil them, her veils disarranged a bit, perhaps by the wind.
- (Witness of Gor, Chapter )