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This was not a time amongst men, the time of this banquet, for tenderness, but a time for distraction, for forgetfulness, not a time for regrets and sorrows, but a time for thrusting such things to the side, not a time for farewells and tears but a time for laughing and drinking, for the pounding of tables, the telling of stories, the singing of paga songs, boisterous songs fit for the taverns, in which no free woman may enter. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 46, Sentence #19)

"Reach for the one in the middle," I said. Given the nature of this feast, and the grim prospect of the morrow, no women or children were present. The share of the feast allotted to women and children was distributed amongst some four dwellings which had been less damaged in the bombardment of the great catapults. This was not a time amongst men, the time of this banquet, for tenderness, but a time for distraction, for forgetfulness, not a time for regrets and sorrows, but a time for thrusting such things to the side, not a time for farewells and tears but a time for laughing and drinking, for the pounding of tables, the telling of stories, the singing of paga songs, boisterous songs fit for the taverns, in which no free woman may enter. In the morning, surely, there would be time enough for the weeping of women and the uneasy puzzlement of children, understanding little or nothing. "I think," said Thrasymedes, shaking his head, presumably to clear his vision, "we should not issue forth too early". "I do not think we would be in a condition to do otherwise," I said. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 46)