Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 38 | 65 | Dorna was collared! I think it would be helpful, even advisable, at this point, to pause, to supply certain details, historical and otherwise, in the light of which ensuing events might be better understood. |
| 38 | 66 | These have to do, in particular, with history, espionage, and inaction. |
| 38 | 67 | The city of Tharna was once ruled by a gynocracy. |
| 38 | 68 | Convention, education, culture, and law, seemingly the very air one breathed, from the cradle on, was engineered to demasculinize men, to make them fear their nature, to betray their blood, to suspect and be ashamed of their most natural interests, desires, impulses, and urges. |
| 38 | 69 | It was a travesty of biology, a meretricious, loveless, frustrated world. |
| 38 | 70 | Thwarted drives and suppressed desires led to hypocrisy, belligerence, impatience, cruelty, and war. |
| 38 | 71 | Women were victims, too, being unwittingly estranged from their own natures, taught to be what they were not; instructed to rejoice in their own misery, to see riches in their own self-denial and poverty. |
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Dorna was collared! I think it would be helpful, even advisable, at this point, to pause, to supply certain details, historical and otherwise, in the light of which ensuing events might be better understood.
These have to do, in particular, with history, espionage, and inaction.
The city of Tharna was once ruled by a gynocracy.
Convention, education, culture, and law, seemingly the very air one breathed, from the cradle on, was engineered to demasculinize men, to make them fear their nature, to betray their blood, to suspect and be ashamed of their most natural interests, desires, impulses, and urges.
It was a travesty of biology, a meretricious, loveless, frustrated world.
Thwarted drives and suppressed desires led to hypocrisy, belligerence, impatience, cruelty, and war.
Women were victims, too, being unwittingly estranged from their own natures, taught to be what they were not; instructed to rejoice in their own misery, to see riches in their own self-denial and poverty.
- (Quarry of Gor, Chapter )