Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 21 | 29 | But much of it, I fear, is simply unintelligible to a human, and much literally offensive to our hearing. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 21 | 26 | "But it sounds not like music, but rather like throbbings, like the wind in the forest, like rushing streams, subtle, distant, sometimes cries, as of seized, frightened animals, such things". |
| 21 | 27 | "And much is indecipherable, resembling nothing comprehensible to you?" "Yes," said Cabot. |
| 21 | 28 | "The throbbings, the beatings," said Peisistratus, "suggest the beating of the Kur heart, and then the movements of wind and water suggest the suddenness of vision, and the circulation of hastened blood, and the squeals, the lamentations, the shrieks, the moans, may recall war, and the hunt. |
| 21 | 29 | But much of it, I fear, is simply unintelligible to a human, and much literally offensive to our hearing. |
| 21 | 30 | The rhythms are only partially shared with us. |
| 21 | 31 | Perhaps it is configured to a nervous system, or diverse hereditary coils. |
| 21 | 32 | How much is cultural, and how much is indexed to a different physiology, to a different hearing, a different speech, even a different sense of touch, is difficult to tell". |
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"But it sounds not like music, but rather like throbbings, like the wind in the forest, like rushing streams, subtle, distant, sometimes cries, as of seized, frightened animals, such things".
"And much is indecipherable, resembling nothing comprehensible to you?" "Yes," said Cabot.
"The throbbings, the beatings," said Peisistratus, "suggest the beating of the Kur heart, and then the movements of wind and water suggest the suddenness of vision, and the circulation of hastened blood, and the squeals, the lamentations, the shrieks, the moans, may recall war, and the hunt.
But much of it, I fear, is simply unintelligible to a human, and much literally offensive to our hearing.
The rhythms are only partially shared with us.
Perhaps it is configured to a nervous system, or diverse hereditary coils.
How much is cultural, and how much is indexed to a different physiology, to a different hearing, a different speech, even a different sense of touch, is difficult to tell".
- (Kur of Gor, Chapter 21)