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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)

Perhaps that was seeing, and hearing, too much. - (Prize of Gor, Chapter 27, Sentence #3084)
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27 3084 Perhaps that was seeing, and hearing, too much.

Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)

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27 3081 But they would have followed, in any event, merely to obtain her, for they believed, it seemed, that she had seen or heard too much.
27 3082 This seemed to her pathetically ironic, for she understood little or nothing.
27 3083 To be sure, she had gathered that the beasts and the men were not what they seemed, and that there was some form of communication amongst them.
27 3084 Perhaps that was seeing, and hearing, too much.
27 3085 She did not know.
27 3086 But all here now, even the soldiers, understood at least that much! If only she could convince the beasts that she knew nothing! Or that what she knew was meaningless and inconsequential, or no more than what others here, and doubtless others elsewhere, too, might know! If only she could convince them that they had nothing to fear from her, she only a slave! How naive Mirus had been! Well he might have understood a quest for gold, for such a quest is no stranger to the interests of men, but how mistaken he had been as to the motivation of a slave's pursuit! He had foolishly supposed that the interest taken in her by his fellows and the beasts was his own, that it was their intention merely to abet him, to assist him in obtaining her for himself, that she would wear his collar, kneel before him and serve at his feet.
27 3087 How naive he had been! It was not their intention to assist him in acquiring a particular property; it was rather their intention to destroy it.
But they would have followed, in any event, merely to obtain her, for they believed, it seemed, that she had seen or heard too much. This seemed to her pathetically ironic, for she understood little or nothing. To be sure, she had gathered that the beasts and the men were not what they seemed, and that there was some form of communication amongst them. Perhaps that was seeing, and hearing, too much. She did not know. But all here now, even the soldiers, understood at least that much! If only she could convince the beasts that she knew nothing! Or that what she knew was meaningless and inconsequential, or no more than what others here, and doubtless others elsewhere, too, might know! If only she could convince them that they had nothing to fear from her, she only a slave! How naive Mirus had been! Well he might have understood a quest for gold, for such a quest is no stranger to the interests of men, but how mistaken he had been as to the motivation of a slave's pursuit! He had foolishly supposed that the interest taken in her by his fellows and the beasts was his own, that it was their intention merely to abet him, to assist him in obtaining her for himself, that she would wear his collar, kneel before him and serve at his feet. How naive he had been! It was not their intention to assist him in acquiring a particular property; it was rather their intention to destroy it. - (Prize of Gor, Chapter 27)