Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 137 | Though she was far from immortal, and might even be fed to sleen, she would retain her youth and beauty. |
| 2 | 138 | To be sure, it would wear a collar. |
| 2 | 139 | Doubtless a value judgment is involved in such things. |
| 2 | 140 | One might balance, say, freedom, misery, and death, against bondage, happiness, and life. |
| 2 | 141 | One might consider two lives. |
| 2 | 142 | In one, we might suppose a given woman who, with some good fortune, might live a life of, say, some eighty to ninety years, and live to watch her interest and beauty fade, and observe her once lovely body submit to the slow degradations of age, watch it dry, wither, suffer, decay, and weaken until it subsides into an infantile helplessness, characterized by misery and pain, or perhaps a semi-comatose, bedridden state in which, indifferent and drugged, she waits for an encroaching end which she no longer even understands. |
| 2 | 143 | Conceivably that could be the choice of a given woman. |
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Though she was far from immortal, and might even be fed to sleen, she would retain her youth and beauty.
To be sure, it would wear a collar.
Doubtless a value judgment is involved in such things.
One might balance, say, freedom, misery, and death, against bondage, happiness, and life.
One might consider two lives.
In one, we might suppose a given woman who, with some good fortune, might live a life of, say, some eighty to ninety years, and live to watch her interest and beauty fade, and observe her once lovely body submit to the slow degradations of age, watch it dry, wither, suffer, decay, and weaken until it subsides into an infantile helplessness, characterized by misery and pain, or perhaps a semi-comatose, bedridden state in which, indifferent and drugged, she waits for an encroaching end which she no longer even understands.
Conceivably that could be the choice of a given woman.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter )