Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 239 | This seems to have been done first by taking the skins and fur of other animals, with which the Nameless One, if it was concerned at all with such matters, had refused to provide them, and later particularly by the utilization of plant fibers, and such. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 236 | This may be an adaptation to facilitate heat loss in long-distance pursuit and pack hunting, or, again, it may have to do merely with preferences involved in sexual selection, or both. |
| 1 | 237 | It is hard to know about such things. |
| 1 | 238 | A consequence of this lack of hair, or fur, is that the species, in its wanderings and migrations, certainly into colder areas, must clothe itself. |
| 1 | 239 | This seems to have been done first by taking the skins and fur of other animals, with which the Nameless One, if it was concerned at all with such matters, had refused to provide them, and later particularly by the utilization of plant fibers, and such. |
| 1 | 240 | Clothing also, it seems, interestingly, is often worn by the species even when it is not climatologically indicated, and, indeed, sometimes when it is even uncomfortable. |
| 1 | 241 | It can serve, of course, as a decoration, a symbol of status, a concealment of provocative or vulnerable areas, and so on. |
| 1 | 242 | The harnesses and accouterments of the Kurii are presumably not dissimilar, at least in some of these respects. |
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This may be an adaptation to facilitate heat loss in long-distance pursuit and pack hunting, or, again, it may have to do merely with preferences involved in sexual selection, or both.
It is hard to know about such things.
A consequence of this lack of hair, or fur, is that the species, in its wanderings and migrations, certainly into colder areas, must clothe itself.
This seems to have been done first by taking the skins and fur of other animals, with which the Nameless One, if it was concerned at all with such matters, had refused to provide them, and later particularly by the utilization of plant fibers, and such.
Clothing also, it seems, interestingly, is often worn by the species even when it is not climatologically indicated, and, indeed, sometimes when it is even uncomfortable.
It can serve, of course, as a decoration, a symbol of status, a concealment of provocative or vulnerable areas, and so on.
The harnesses and accouterments of the Kurii are presumably not dissimilar, at least in some of these respects.
- (Kur of Gor, Chapter 1)