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I was sometimes called to their feet and questioned with respect to what was current in the city. The taverns, in their way, rather like the markets, provide a clearing house for reports and rumors, for facts and lies, for information and misinformation, and the paga girls, by default, so to speak, are likely to be amongst the best informed sources of information and misinformation in the city. They are curious and hear much; and they frequently chat amongst themselves, and share what they have heard, and, I suspect, often more than they have heard. Goreans, bond and free, are eager for news, but the channels of its conveyance, for the populace at large, it lacking post riders and hired informants, tend to be unreliable and haphazard. It can take months for the news of some event of importance in Schendi or remote Turia to reach Kassau or Hunjer, or Port Kar, or even Cos, or Tyros. And even then what reaches the taverns and markets is likely to be only incomplete and garbled accounts, passed from to hand to hand, so to speak, and often founded, ultimately, I fear, on the ramblings of merchants and mariners, perhaps enunciated through the fumes of paga. Access to local news, of course, is likely to be more prompt, if not more accurate. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter )