Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 657 | Or, perhaps, they think that this makes them easier to control and puts them more at their mercy. |
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 654 | "We would not teach a verr or tarsk to read, they might say, so why should we teach a slave to read?" Some masters, on the other hand, make an actual point of seeing to it that their girls are kept illiterate. |
| 12 | 655 | They want them that way. |
| 12 | 656 | They think, it seems, that that is simply appropriate for a slave, that she be kept illiterate. |
| 12 | 657 | Or, perhaps, they think that this makes them easier to control and puts them more at their mercy. |
| 12 | 658 | Such a view, however, would seem to me incorrect. |
| 12 | 659 | We are in all ways subject to the complete and perfect control of our masters, and we are totally at their mercy, always, whether we can read or not. |
| 12 | 660 | Certainly an illiterate master, say, of the tharlarion drivers, may relish having a former high-caste beauty, perhaps of the scribes or builders, educated and literate, cleaning his stalls and, when commanded, crawling to him over the boards on her belly begging his touch. |
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"We would not teach a verr or tarsk to read, they might say, so why should we teach a slave to read?" Some masters, on the other hand, make an actual point of seeing to it that their girls are kept illiterate.
They want them that way.
They think, it seems, that that is simply appropriate for a slave, that she be kept illiterate.
Or, perhaps, they think that this makes them easier to control and puts them more at their mercy.
Such a view, however, would seem to me incorrect.
We are in all ways subject to the complete and perfect control of our masters, and we are totally at their mercy, always, whether we can read or not.
Certainly an illiterate master, say, of the tharlarion drivers, may relish having a former high-caste beauty, perhaps of the scribes or builders, educated and literate, cleaning his stalls and, when commanded, crawling to him over the boards on her belly begging his touch.
- (Slave Girl of Gor, Chapter 12)