Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
9
67
Here they knew, and would acknowledge, the dark truths of human life, that, in the end, there was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and the steel of weapons.
9
68
Here they concerned themselves only with themselves.
9
69
Here they behaved as what they were, cruelly and with ruthlessness, as men, despising, and taking what they might, should it please them to do so.
9
70
And it was in this city, now mine, that I belonged, I who had lost myself, who had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
9
71
I took yet another swallow of paga.
9
72
There was a girl's scream and, from the alcove into which Surbus had dragged her, the girl, bleeding, fled among the tables, he plunging drunken after her.
9
73
"Protect me!" she cried, to anyone who would listen.
Here they knew, and would acknowledge, the dark truths of human life, that, in the end, there was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and the steel of weapons.
Here they concerned themselves only with themselves.
Here they behaved as what they were, cruelly and with ruthlessness, as men, despising, and taking what they might, should it please them to do so.
And it was in this city, now mine, that I belonged, I who had lost myself, who had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
I took yet another swallow of paga.
There was a girl's scream and, from the alcove into which Surbus had dragged her, the girl, bleeding, fled among the tables, he plunging drunken after her.
"Protect me!" she cried, to anyone who would listen.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )