Let them hide behind men, he thought, whose they are, and to whom they owe their lives.
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Do they not understand that, really? They are slaves, he thought.
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Let them learn that, and strive to be pleasing.
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free, they are without identity; free, they are meaningless and worthless; free, they are egotistical bothers, haughty nuisances, arrogant annoyances, self-alienated creatures removed from both biology and themselves, unhappy, pathetic, miserable, casting-about, frustrated creatures who do not even understand the meaning of their own malaise.
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But collared, marketed, and such, they are quite nice.
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Subject to buying and selling, and the lash, they are pleasant to have about the house.
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They work well, and from their thrashing, squirming bodies one may derive inordinate pleasures, pleasures not even within the ken of freewomen.
Let them hide behind men, he thought, whose they are, and to whom they owe their lives.
Do they not understand that, really? They are slaves, he thought.
Let them learn that, and strive to be pleasing.
free, they are without identity; free, they are meaningless and worthless; free, they are egotistical bothers, haughty nuisances, arrogant annoyances, self-alienated creatures removed from both biology and themselves, unhappy, pathetic, miserable, casting-about, frustrated creatures who do not even understand the meaning of their own malaise.
But collared, marketed, and such, they are quite nice.
Subject to buying and selling, and the lash, they are pleasant to have about the house.
They work well, and from their thrashing, squirming bodies one may derive inordinate pleasures, pleasures not even within the ken of free women.
- (Kur of Gor, Chapter )