She was a woman of Earth, and had been an intellectual, a person of stature and importance.
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How was it then, she wondered, given her obvious excellence and quality, her obvious value, that she had not been purchased by a rich man, someone important, a statesman, a general or a great merchant, surely by some significant personage in Ar.
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Surely she should serve in a mansion or palace, or a great cylinder, in rich quarters.
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Did they truly not know her worth, what she deserved? How was it then that she had been purchased by a tarnmaster, a fellow not even of high caste? She wondered what he had paid for her.
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Then she realized that these matters of Earth were of no interest here, on this world.
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Here she was a young barbarian, naive, poorly trained and illiterate.
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What could she expect, here? She had not even been the best meat on Targo's shelf.
She was a woman of Earth, and had been an intellectual, a person of stature and importance.
How was it then, she wondered, given her obvious excellence and quality, her obvious value, that she had not been purchased by a rich man, someone important, a statesman, a general or a great merchant, surely by some significant personage in Ar.
Surely she should serve in a mansion or palace, or a great cylinder, in rich quarters.
Did they truly not know her worth, what she deserved? How was it then that she had been purchased by a tarnmaster, a fellow not even of high caste? She wondered what he had paid for her.
Then she realized that these matters of Earth were of no interest here, on this world.
Here she was a young barbarian, naive, poorly trained and illiterate.
What could she expect, here? She had not even been the best meat on Targo's shelf.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )