Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 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. |
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 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. |
| 12 | 661 | There are no particular regularities involved in these matters and it is not unusual for a literate master to have either literate or illiterate slaves, nor for an illiterate master to have either literate or illiterate slaves. |
| 12 | 662 | The slaves are slaves, whether literate or not. |
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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.
There are no particular regularities involved in these matters and it is not unusual for a literate master to have either literate or illiterate slaves, nor for an illiterate master to have either literate or illiterate slaves.
The slaves are slaves, whether literate or not.
- (Slave Girl of Gor, Chapter 12)