Book 1. (10 results) Tarnsman of Gor
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| 9 | 52 |
Once, however, Talena dragged me to the side of the road, and, scarcely able to conceal our horror, we watched while a sufferer from the incurable dar-kosis disease, bent in his yellow shrouds, hobbled by, periodically clacking that wooden device which warns all within he...
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| 9 | 54 |
The name of the disease itself, dar-kosis, is almost never mentioned.
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| 13 | 44 |
To my astonishment, I saw it wore the yellow cerements of the sufferer of dar-kosis, that virulent, incurable, wasting disease of Gor.
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| 13 | 74 |
As an act of charity, Initiates have arranged at various places dar-kosis Pits where the Afflicted may voluntarily imprison themselves, to be fed with food hurled downward from the backs of passing tarns.
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| 13 | 75 |
Once in a dar-kosis Pit, the Afflicted are not allowed to depart.
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| 13 | 83 |
"Did you escape from one of the dar-kosis Pits?" I asked.
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| 18 | 12 |
The dar-kosis Pits beyond the city.
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| 18 | 68 |
In what seemed like an hour, but must have been no more than three or four minutes, I was behind the camp of Pa-Kur and searching for the dreaded dar-kosis Pits, those prisons in which the Afflicted may freely incarcerate themselves and be fed, but from which they are not...
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| 18 | 78 |
I did know that sometimes the pathetic inmates of dar-kosis Pits, repenting their decision to be incarcerated, had managed to cut footholds in the walls and escape, but the labor involved—a matter of years—the death penalty for being discovered, and the very...
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| 13 | 66 |
That was the literal translation of dar-kosis—the Holy Disease—or, equivalently, the Sacred Affliction.
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Book 5. (10 results) Assassin of Gor
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 3 | 68 |
At any rate, disease is now almost unknown among the Gorean cities, with the exception of the dreaded dar-kosis disease, or the Holy Disease, research on which is generally frowned upon by the Caste of Initiates, who insist the disease is a visitation of the displeasure o...
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| 18 | 162 |
"I thought to find," said he, "an immunization against dar-kosis".
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| 18 | 163 |
"dar-kosis is incurable," I said.
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| 18 | 167 |
dar-kosis, or the Holy Disease, or Sacred Affliction, is a virulent, wasting disease of Gor.
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| 18 | 169 |
They wander the countryside in shroudlike yellow rags, beating a wooden clapping device to warn men from their path; some of them volunteer to be placed in dar-kosis pits, several of which lay within the vicinity of Ar, where they are fed and given drink, and are, of cour...
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| 18 | 171 |
"dar-kosis," I said, "is thought to be holy to the Priest-Kings, and those afflicted with it to be consecrated to Priest-Kings".
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| 18 | 175 |
"dar-kosis," I said, "is regarded as an instrument of Priest-Kings, used to smite those who displease them".
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| 18 | 206 |
"I had," he said, "shortly before the fire developed a strain of urts resistant to the dar-kosis organism; a serum cultured from their blood was injected in other animals, which subsequently we were unable to infect.
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| 18 | 256 |
"That he is dying of dar-kosis," he said.
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| 23 | 247 |
"dar-kosis," I said, "is not yet dead".
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor
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| 1 | 97 |
Long ago, I had once entered the city through such a passage, its exterior access point reached by means of a putative dar-kosis pit, which passage, I had recently determined, descending into the pit on ropes, was now closed.
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