Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 20 | 90 | Sometimes the positions are determined randomly, by lot. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 20 | 87 | In a marching coffle she knew that the most beautiful were often put at the beginning, and the least attractive put at the end. |
| 20 | 88 | Sometimes girls strove for a better coffle position, passionately trying to improve their attractiveness. |
| 20 | 89 | In a sales coffle two policies tend to predominate: sometimes the most beautiful are saved for the end, which has led to the saying "rich enough to buy from the end of the chain," or, more often, the girls are mixed on the chain with various sales strategies in mind, for example, mixing skin colors, facial types and such for aesthetic purposes, putting a moderately attractive girl between two less attractive girls to improve, by contrast, the chance of marketing the moderately attractive girl, and so on. |
| 20 | 90 | Sometimes the positions are determined randomly, by lot. |
| 20 | 91 | Buyers tend to approve of this arrangement, for one can then suppose that one has had the best buy, regardless of the girl's position on the chain. |
| 20 | 92 | To be sure, what all these approaches seem to overlook, though it is probably understood well enough by all, is that much which is very personal, even "chemical," so to speak, is involved in these matters. |
| 20 | 93 | A slave who is nothing to one man may be exactly the slave that another man must have at any price, and a stunning beauty, perhaps a flower from a defeated Ubar's pleasure garden, perhaps even his preferred slave, these women vended in a war camp, might not appeal to a given common soldier, and such. |
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In a marching coffle she knew that the most beautiful were often put at the beginning, and the least attractive put at the end.
Sometimes girls strove for a better coffle position, passionately trying to improve their attractiveness.
In a sales coffle two policies tend to predominate: sometimes the most beautiful are saved for the end, which has led to the saying "rich enough to buy from the end of the chain," or, more often, the girls are mixed on the chain with various sales strategies in mind, for example, mixing skin colors, facial types and such for aesthetic purposes, putting a moderately attractive girl between two less attractive girls to improve, by contrast, the chance of marketing the moderately attractive girl, and so on.
Sometimes the positions are determined randomly, by lot.
Buyers tend to approve of this arrangement, for one can then suppose that one has had the best buy, regardless of the girl's position on the chain.
To be sure, what all these approaches seem to overlook, though it is probably understood well enough by all, is that much which is very personal, even "chemical," so to speak, is involved in these matters.
A slave who is nothing to one man may be exactly the slave that another man must have at any price, and a stunning beauty, perhaps a flower from a defeated Ubar's pleasure garden, perhaps even his preferred slave, these women vended in a war camp, might not appeal to a given common soldier, and such.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter 20)