Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 20 | I would have supposed a simpler syllabary, or even an experimentation with a nonscented perhaps alphabetic graphic script, would have been desirable linguistic ventures for the priest-kings, but as far as I know they were never made. |
| 13 | 21 | With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, and thus that the difference to him between more than four hundred signs and less than thirty would be negligible. |
| 13 | 22 | As far as it goes this was not bad guesswork on my part, but deeper reasons underlay the matter. |
| 13 | 23 | First, I did not know then how priest-kings learned. |
| 13 | 24 | They do not learn as we do. |
| 13 | 25 | Second, they tend in many matters to have a penchant for complexity, regarding it as more elegant than simplicity. |
| 13 | 26 | One practical result of this seems to be that they have never been tempted to oversimplify physical reality, biological processes or the operations of a functioning mind. |
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I would have supposed a simpler syllabary, or even an experimentation with a nonscented perhaps alphabetic graphic script, would have been desirable linguistic ventures for the priest-kings, but as far as I know they were never made.
With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, and thus that the difference to him between more than four hundred signs and less than thirty would be negligible.
As far as it goes this was not bad guesswork on my part, but deeper reasons underlay the matter.
First, I did not know then how priest-kings learned.
They do not learn as we do.
Second, they tend in many matters to have a penchant for complexity, regarding it as more elegant than simplicity.
One practical result of this seems to be that they have never been tempted to oversimplify physical reality, biological processes or the operations of a functioning mind.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )