Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 14 | I speak of them smelling and hearing through the sensory appendages, but what the quality of their experience may be I am uncertain. |
| 10 | 15 | For example, does a priest-king have the same qualitative experience that I do when we are confronted by the same scent? I am inclined to doubt it, for their music, which consists of rhapsodies of odors produced by instruments constructed for this purpose, and often played by priest-kings, some of whom I am told are far more skillful than others, is intolerable to my ear, or I should say, nose. |
| 10 | 16 | Communication by odor-signals can in certain circumstances be extremely efficient, though it can be disadvantageous in others. |
| 10 | 17 | For example, an odor can carry, to the sensory appendages of a priest-king, much farther than can the shout or cry of a man to another man. |
| 10 | 18 | Moreover, if not too much time is allowed to elapse, a priest-king may leave a message in his chamber or in a corridor for another priest-king, and the other may arrive later and interpret it. |
| 10 | 19 | A disadvantage of this mode of communication, of course, is that the message may be understood by strangers or others for whom it is not intended. |
| 10 | 20 | One must be careful of what one says in the tunnels of priest-kings, for one's words may linger after one, until they sufficiently dissipate to be little more than a meaningless blur of scent. |
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I speak of them smelling and hearing through the sensory appendages, but what the quality of their experience may be I am uncertain.
For example, does a priest-king have the same qualitative experience that I do when we are confronted by the same scent? I am inclined to doubt it, for their music, which consists of rhapsodies of odors produced by instruments constructed for this purpose, and often played by priest-kings, some of whom I am told are far more skillful than others, is intolerable to my ear, or I should say, nose.
Communication by odor-signals can in certain circumstances be extremely efficient, though it can be disadvantageous in others.
For example, an odor can carry, to the sensory appendages of a priest-king, much farther than can the shout or cry of a man to another man.
Moreover, if not too much time is allowed to elapse, a priest-king may leave a message in his chamber or in a corridor for another priest-king, and the other may arrive later and interpret it.
A disadvantage of this mode of communication, of course, is that the message may be understood by strangers or others for whom it is not intended.
One must be careful of what one says in the tunnels of priest-kings, for one's words may linger after one, until they sufficiently dissipate to be little more than a meaningless blur of scent.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )