Too, there might have been a crashed or downed ship.
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Perhaps then she had been retrieved from her cage, perhaps drawn from fiery or smoking debris.
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Her master or keeper in the meantime might have made good his escape, or perhaps failed to do so, was apprehended by priest-kings, and routinely destroyed.
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You might suppose that we could have easily solved this problem, how she came into the keeping of priest-kings, by simply asking her, but that would be incorrect, for she, as a typical Kur human, had never been taught to speak.
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Would you, for example, teach a dog, or pig, to speak? That they can be trained for simple tasks is more than enough.
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It is interesting to consider how easily the continuities of tradition or civilization may be broken.
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Absent a species for a single generation from socialization and we have not even barbarians, only animals.
Too, there might have been a crashed or downed ship.
Perhaps then she had been retrieved from her cage, perhaps drawn from fiery or smoking debris.
Her master or keeper in the meantime might have made good his escape, or perhaps failed to do so, was apprehended by priest-kings, and routinely destroyed.
You might suppose that we could have easily solved this problem, how she came into the keeping of priest-kings, by simply asking her, but that would be incorrect, for she, as a typical Kur human, had never been taught to speak.
Would you, for example, teach a dog, or pig, to speak? That they can be trained for simple tasks is more than enough.
It is interesting to consider how easily the continuities of tradition or civilization may be broken.
Absent a species for a single generation from socialization and we have not even barbarians, only animals.
- (Kur of Gor, Chapter )