Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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Such homely practices are useful in reminding them that they are slaves.
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322
It pleased me that the former Talena, of Ar, the former Ubara of Ar, was now before me, a kenneled slave.
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323
It pleased me that she had kissed and licked my hand, first the palm, and then the back, reverently.
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324
That is a common conciliatory act on the part of a slave, to lick and kiss, reverently, the hand by which she might be cuffed, first the palm, and then the back.
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325
In this way she might express her fear that she might be, and her hope that she will not be, struck.
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Commonly, however, this serves as a simple, lovely act of deference, by means of which the slave acknowledges that she is her master's beast, his owned, domestic animal.
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A similar act, perhaps more clearly symbolic, is involved when the slave, kneeling, licks and kisses the master's whip, held to her lips.
Such homely practices are useful in reminding them that they are slaves.
It pleased me that the former Talena, of Ar, the former Ubara of Ar, was now before me, a kenneled slave.
It pleased me that she had kissed and licked my hand, first the palm, and then the back, reverently.
That is a common conciliatory act on the part of a slave, to lick and kiss, reverently, the hand by which she might be cuffed, first the palm, and then the back.
In this way she might express her fear that she might be, and her hope that she will not be, struck.
Commonly, however, this serves as a simple, lovely act of deference, by means of which the slave acknowledges that she is her master's beast, his owned, domestic animal.
A similar act, perhaps more clearly symbolic, is involved when the slave, kneeling, licks and kisses the master's whip, held to her lips.
- (Mariners of Gor, Chapter )