Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 22 | Let scribes, they say, be adept with letters, and such, for that is their business, little scratches and marks on scrolls, and such. |
| 1 | 23 | But this is not for them, not for the Scarlet caste. |
| 1 | 24 | But, too, should not each caste concern itself with its own business, the metal worker with metals, the peasant with the soil, the mariner with the sea, and so on? I do not commend this view, but report it. |
| 1 | 25 | Too, in all honesty, it is not that unusual to find refined, literate members of my caste. |
| 1 | 26 | Some members of my caste are educated gentlemen, educated, distinguished, dangerous gentlemen. |
| 1 | 27 | Gorean, incidentally, is written "as the bosk plows," which requires an alternating laterality, the first line read from left to right, the second from right to left, and so on. |
| 1 | 28 | I might also mention that certain measures, of, say, length and weight, and such, will be approximated in English, in terms of pounds, yards, inches, and such, rather than in terms of stones, paces, horts, and such. |
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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.
But, too, should not each caste concern itself with its own business, the metal worker with metals, the peasant with the soil, the mariner with the sea, and so on? I do not commend this view, but report it.
Too, in all honesty, it is not that unusual to find refined, literate members of my caste.
Some members of my caste are educated gentlemen, educated, distinguished, dangerous gentlemen.
Gorean, incidentally, is written "as the bosk plows," which requires an alternating laterality, the first line read from left to right, the second from right to left, and so on.
I might also mention that certain measures, of, say, length and weight, and such, will be approximated in English, in terms of pounds, yards, inches, and such, rather than in terms of stones, paces, horts, and such.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter )