Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 101 | The state, or a source of law, it seems, can decide whether one has a certain status or not, say, whether one is a citizen or not a citizen, licensed or not licensed, an outlaw or not an outlaw, and such. |
| 1 | 102 | It can simply make these things come about, it seems, by pronouncing them, and then they are simply true, and that, then, is what the person is. |
| 1 | 103 | It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, with the person's awareness or consent, and yet it is true of the person, categorically and absolutely, in all the majesty of the law. |
| 1 | 104 | It makes the person something, whether the person understands it, or knows it, or not. |
| 1 | 105 | The person might be made something or other, you see, and be totally unaware of it. |
| 1 | 106 | Yet that is what that person, then, would be. |
| 1 | 107 | It is clear to her now that she must have been watched, and considered, and assessed, perhaps for months, utterly unbeknownst to her. |
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The state, or a source of law, it seems, can decide whether one has a certain status or not, say, whether one is a citizen or not a citizen, licensed or not licensed, an outlaw or not an outlaw, and such.
It can simply make these things come about, it seems, by pronouncing them, and then they are simply true, and that, then, is what the person is.
It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, with the person's awareness or consent, and yet it is true of the person, categorically and absolutely, in all the majesty of the law.
It makes the person something, whether the person understands it, or knows it, or not.
The person might be made something or other, you see, and be totally unaware of it.
Yet that is what that person, then, would be.
It is clear to her now that she must have been watched, and considered, and assessed, perhaps for months, utterly unbeknownst to her.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )