Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 13 | 3 | We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a priest-King, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots. |
| 13 | 4 | If the scent-dots were themselves not scented one might be tempted to think of them as graphemes in the language of the priest-kings, but since they themselves are scented they are best construed as analogous to uttered phonemes or phoneme combinations, direct expressions of the oral syllabary of the priest-kings. |
| 13 | 5 | When surrounded by scent-dots one might suppose the priest-King to be subjected to a cacophony of stimulation, much as we might be if environed by dozens of blaring radios and television sets, but this is apparently not the case; the better analogy would seem to be our experience of walking down a quiet city street surrounded by printed signs which we might notice but to which we do not pay much attention. |
| 13 | 6 | In our sense there is no distinction between a spoken and written language for the priest-kings, though there is an analogous distinction between linguistic patterns that are actually sensed and those which are potentially to be sensed, an example of the latter being the scents of a yet uncoiled scent-tape. |
| 13 | 7 | "You will not much care for the processing," said one of my guides. |
| 13 | 8 | "But it will be good for you," said the other. |
| 13 | 9 | "Why must I be processed?" I asked. |
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We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a priest-King, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots.
If the scent-dots were themselves not scented one might be tempted to think of them as graphemes in the language of the priest-kings, but since they themselves are scented they are best construed as analogous to uttered phonemes or phoneme combinations, direct expressions of the oral syllabary of the priest-kings.
When surrounded by scent-dots one might suppose the priest-King to be subjected to a cacophony of stimulation, much as we might be if environed by dozens of blaring radios and television sets, but this is apparently not the case; the better analogy would seem to be our experience of walking down a quiet city street surrounded by printed signs which we might notice but to which we do not pay much attention.
In our sense there is no distinction between a spoken and written language for the priest-kings, though there is an analogous distinction between linguistic patterns that are actually sensed and those which are potentially to be sensed, an example of the latter being the scents of a yet uncoiled scent-tape.
"You will not much care for the processing," said one of my guides.
"But it will be good for you," said the other.
"Why must I be processed?" I asked.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )