I am deeply grateful to my master for permitting me to write this, and to that unusual, complex gentleman, Bosk of Port Kar, scholar and warrior, master of weapons and slaves, sometimes so fierce and terrible, sometimes so thoughtful and gentle, uncompromising but understanding, for suggesting that it might be done.
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The narrative, I fear is only too obviously a first-person story, though I have tried to tell it with some objectivity, largely in the third person, as perhaps befits a collared slave.
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To be sure, I fear my feelings have often intruded themselves.
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Indeed, sometimes I fear that I have spoken in the first person and not the third.
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This is then, I conjecture, a first-person narrative expressed largely, humbly, I trust, in the third person.
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Now, however, in these last remarks, with no presumption intended, I will speak in my own first person, not of the slave, Ellen, who is I, but as I, who am Ellen, the slave.
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This has been so good for me to write this story.
I am deeply grateful to my master for permitting me to write this, and to that unusual, complex gentleman, Bosk of Port Kar, scholar and warrior, master of weapons and slaves, sometimes so fierce and terrible, sometimes so thoughtful and gentle, uncompromising but understanding, for suggesting that it might be done.
The narrative, I fear is only too obviously a first-person story, though I have tried to tell it with some objectivity, largely in the third person, as perhaps befits a collared slave.
To be sure, I fear my feelings have often intruded themselves.
Indeed, sometimes I fear that I have spoken in the first person and not the third.
This is then, I conjecture, a first-person narrative expressed largely, humbly, I trust, in the third person.
Now, however, in these last remarks, with no presumption intended, I will speak in my own first person, not of the slave, Ellen, who is I, but as I, who am Ellen, the slave.
This has been so good for me to write this story.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )