Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
1
1051
More acutely, a personal sense of honor, one which seems to me misplaced and overly sensitive, seems to have been involved, one clearly exceeding the parameters of the codes.
More acutely, a personal sense of honor, one which seems to me misplaced and overly sensitive, seems to have been involved, one clearly exceeding the parameters of the codes.
- (Kur of Gor, Chapter 1, Sentence #1051)
Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
1
1048
To be sure, the codes make it abundantly clear that this pertains only to females with whom one shares a Home Stone.
1
1049
Cabot, however, as some Warriors, tended to generalize this recommendation to free women more generally, saving, of course, those who might be insolent or abusive, or of an enemy city.
1
1050
Whereas there are clear cases in which the codes apply or do not apply, they, as most recommendations, rules, principles, and such, perhaps unavoidably, were occasionally afflicted with a regrettable penumbra of obscurity.
1
1051
More acutely, a personal sense of honor, one which seems to me misplaced and overly sensitive, seems to have been involved, one clearly exceeding the parameters of the codes.
1
1052
One suspects this might have been the consequence of a personal idiosyncrasy, or even a residue lingering from an unnatural and ridiculous acculturation, one to which he had been subjected in the innocence of his childhood or adolescence.
1
1053
In any event both females were helpless and at his mercy.
1
1054
And yet he refrained, perhaps unconscionably, at least for the time, of making use of one, or both.
To be sure, the codes make it abundantly clear that this pertains only to females with whom one shares a Home Stone.
Cabot, however, as some Warriors, tended to generalize this recommendation to free women more generally, saving, of course, those who might be insolent or abusive, or of an enemy city.
Whereas there are clear cases in which the codes apply or do not apply, they, as most recommendations, rules, principles, and such, perhaps unavoidably, were occasionally afflicted with a regrettable penumbra of obscurity.
More acutely, a personal sense of honor, one which seems to me misplaced and overly sensitive, seems to have been involved, one clearly exceeding the parameters of the codes.
One suspects this might have been the consequence of a personal idiosyncrasy, or even a residue lingering from an unnatural and ridiculous acculturation, one to which he had been subjected in the innocence of his childhood or adolescence.
In any event both females were helpless and at his mercy.
And yet he refrained, perhaps unconscionably, at least for the time, of making use of one, or both.
- (Kur of Gor, Chapter 1)