Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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Should this record, then, which is written in English, and will thus be unintelligible to most Goreans, this often a boon to the writer, assuring as it does a modicum of privacy, indeed, it commonly amongst Goreans counting as a suspect, secret writing, come into the hands of any who might be familiar with English, these directions will be reasonably well understood.
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I write in English because it is easiest for me.
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19
Although I speak Gorean fluently, I can read it and write it only with difficulty.
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20
This is not unusual with those of my caste, many of whom, by choice, are contemptuously, pridefully illiterate, holding themselves superior to what they despise as trivial, vulgar learning.
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21
The business of their caste, then, in their view, is not with the pen but with steel, not with ink, but blood.
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22
Let scribes, they say, be adept with letters, and such, for that is their business, little scratches and marks on scrolls, and such.
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But this is not for them, not for the Scarlet caste.
Should this record, then, which is written in English, and will thus be unintelligible to most Goreans, this often a boon to the writer, assuring as it does a modicum of privacy, indeed, it commonly amongst Goreans counting as a suspect, secret writing, come into the hands of any who might be familiar with English, these directions will be reasonably well understood.
I write in English because it is easiest for me.
Although I speak Gorean fluently, I can read it and write it only with difficulty.
This is not unusual with those of my caste, many of whom, by choice, are contemptuously, pridefully illiterate, holding themselves superior to what they despise as trivial, vulgar learning.
The business of their caste, then, in their view, is not with the pen but with steel, not with ink, but blood.
Let scribes, they say, be adept with letters, and such, for that is their business, little scratches and marks on scrolls, and such.
But this is not for them, not for the Scarlet caste.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter )