Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 275 | In any event, Goreans, male and female, slave and free, by whatever glimpse of wisdom and truth, or by whatever stroke of fortune, have never been taught to suspect themselves of some shameful unworthiness for the crime of being alive and human. |
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 272 | Even on Earth many women are sensitive to such things. |
| 8 | 273 | How can some, I wondered, pretend to be ignorant of the tensions, the cords of interest and desire, which attend the interactions of the sexes? Are they unaware of the radical centrality of sexuality to the human condition? Do they lie, or are they somehow ignorant, or inert, simply blind to the turbulence of invisible torrents rushing about them? Have they never experienced seemingly small things, betokening broad, sweeping currents, tiny things hinting at looming storms, the lifting of eyes, the catching of breath, the pounding of a heart, the unsteadiness of a body? Have their bodies and emotions never responded to having been viewed with interest, even desire? Have they never trembled, knowing they were wanted, and have they never admitted to themselves, as well, their own desires, that they, too, hope, and want? These things, so natural, so vital, and healthy, so frequently denied on Earth, subject to even fearful, pathological denials or dismissals, things taught on Earth to be soiled by shame and hypocrisy, are accepted and welcomed on Gor. |
| 8 | 274 | Goreans, male and female, are not conditioned to dread and fear nature, to abet the agendas of the weak, strange, and ill-constituted, those who would seek power by means of imposing values and disvalues, those who would strive to instill and manipulate guilt to their own advantage. |
| 8 | 275 | In any event, Goreans, male and female, slave and free, by whatever glimpse of wisdom and truth, or by whatever stroke of fortune, have never been taught to suspect themselves of some shameful unworthiness for the crime of being alive and human. |
| 8 | 276 | It would no more occur to them to do so than it would to denounce breathing, or the circulation of the blood. |
| 8 | 277 | I did not speak. |
| 8 | 278 | Even I, from childhood on, I suspected, had been taught a sort of treachery to myself. |
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Even on Earth many women are sensitive to such things.
How can some, I wondered, pretend to be ignorant of the tensions, the cords of interest and desire, which attend the interactions of the sexes? Are they unaware of the radical centrality of sexuality to the human condition? Do they lie, or are they somehow ignorant, or inert, simply blind to the turbulence of invisible torrents rushing about them? Have they never experienced seemingly small things, betokening broad, sweeping currents, tiny things hinting at looming storms, the lifting of eyes, the catching of breath, the pounding of a heart, the unsteadiness of a body? Have their bodies and emotions never responded to having been viewed with interest, even desire? Have they never trembled, knowing they were wanted, and have they never admitted to themselves, as well, their own desires, that they, too, hope, and want? These things, so natural, so vital, and healthy, so frequently denied on Earth, subject to even fearful, pathological denials or dismissals, things taught on Earth to be soiled by shame and hypocrisy, are accepted and welcomed on Gor.
Goreans, male and female, are not conditioned to dread and fear nature, to abet the agendas of the weak, strange, and ill-constituted, those who would seek power by means of imposing values and disvalues, those who would strive to instill and manipulate guilt to their own advantage.
In any event, Goreans, male and female, slave and free, by whatever glimpse of wisdom and truth, or by whatever stroke of fortune, have never been taught to suspect themselves of some shameful unworthiness for the crime of being alive and human.
It would no more occur to them to do so than it would to denounce breathing, or the circulation of the blood.
I did not speak.
Even I, from childhood on, I suspected, had been taught a sort of treachery to myself.
- (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 8)