Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 21 | 269 | On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names. |
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 21 | 266 | "What is your name?" I asked the girl. |
| 21 | 267 | "A slave has no name," she said. |
| 21 | 268 | "You may give me one if you wish". |
| 21 | 269 | On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names. |
| 21 | 270 | Indeed, from the Gorean's point of view, one of the most fearful things about slavery is that one loses one's name. |
| 21 | 271 | That name which he has had from birth, by which he has called himself and knows himself, that name which is so much a part of his own conception of himself, of his own true and most intimate identity, is suddenly gone. |
| 21 | 272 | "I gather you are not a bred slave," I said. |
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"What is your name?" I asked the girl.
"A slave has no name," she said.
"You may give me one if you wish".
On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names.
Indeed, from the Gorean's point of view, one of the most fearful things about slavery is that one loses one's name.
That name which he has had from birth, by which he has called himself and knows himself, that name which is so much a part of his own conception of himself, of his own true and most intimate identity, is suddenly gone.
"I gather you are not a bred slave," I said.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter 21)