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Book 1. (17 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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8 14 The city is under martial law".
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5 47 Any attempt on the Home Stone was regarded by the citizens of a city as sacrilege of the most heinous variety and punishable by the most painful of deaths, but, paradoxically, it was regarded as the greatest of glories to purloin the Home Stone of another city, and the wa...
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3 80 "In fact, in the First Knowledge, there is a story told to the young in their public nurseries, that if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin".
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3 123 I had seen few women, but knew that they, when free, were promoted or demoted within the caste system according to the same standards and criteria as the men, although this varied, I was told, considerably from city to city.
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4 79 I was surprised, for this was the first time I had known that my father had been War Chieftain of the city, or that he was even now its supreme civil official, or, for that matter, that the city was named Ko-ro-ba, a now archaic expression for a village market.
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4 174 "And there," he said, poking downward with his finger, "is the city of Ar, hereditary enemy of Ko-ro-ba, the central city of Marlenus, who intends to be Ubar of all Gor".
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5 20 Indeed, it seemed their confidence had been well placed, for now Ar, instead of being a single beleaguered city like so many others on Gor, was a central city in which were kept the Home Stones of a dozen hitherto free cities.
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5 21 There was now an empire of Ar, a robust, arrogant, warlike polity only too obviously involved in the work of dividing its enemies and extending its political hegemony city by city across the plains, hills, and deserts of Gor.
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5 34 The Older Tarl had told me that Thentis is a city famed for its tarn flocks and remote in the mountains from which the city takes its name.
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7 95 "I do not ask your name, Warrior," he said, "nor will I repeat the name of your city before the Submitted One, but know that you and your city are honored by the Spider People".
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15 4 Across the city, from the walls to the cylinders and among the cylinders, I could occasionally see the slight flash of sunlight on the swaying tarn wires, literally hundreds of thousands of slender, almost invisible wires stretched in a protective net across the city.
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15 129 A brief exchange followed, like a chain reaction, neither man considering his moves for a moment; First Tarnsman took First Tarnsman, Second Spearman responded by neutralizing First Tarnsman, city neutralized Spearman, Assassin took city, Assassin fell to Second Tarnsman,...
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15 173 "You are willing," I asked, "to turn the city over to Pa-Kur—that his horde should swarm into the cylinders, that the city may be looted and burned, the people destroyed or enslaved?" I shuddered involuntarily at the thought of the uncontrolled hordes of Pa-Kur amo...
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16 46 It seemed probable that food and water would soon be scarce in the city and that the Initiates, whose resistance had been unimaginative and who were apparently unable to protect the city, would be forced to face a hungry and desperate population.
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18 59 There are two systems of courts on Gor—those of the city, under the jurisdiction of an Administrator or Ubar, and those of the Initiates, under the jurisdiction of the High Initiate of the given city; the division corresponds roughly to that between civil and what,...
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2 131 "Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.
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14 34 Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution ...
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Book 2. (20 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 188 Later, following another examination, I was admitted to the bar in New York State, and I entered one of the immense law offices in the city, hoping to obtain eventually enough experience and capital to open a small practice of my own.
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12 87 Some had even sung their way from city to city, their poverty protecting them from outlaws, and their luck from the predatory beasts of Gor.
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2 14 So standing, the sun upon me, without thinking I raised my arms as in pagan prayer to acknowledge the power of the Priest-Kings, which had once again brought me from Earth to this world, the power which once before had torn me from Gor when they were finished with me, taking me from my adopted 6
2 48 This love of their city tends to become invested in a stone which is known as the Home Stone, and which is normally kept in the highest cylinder in a city.
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2 49 In the Home Stone—sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the city was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or gran...
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2 51 It is almost as if the city itself were identified with the Home Stone, as if it were to the city what life is to a man.
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4 96 But how could it have known? How could it have known that I was Tarl of Ko-ro-ba, and that I was returning to my city? There is a Gorean proverb that a man who is returning to his city is not to be detained.
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5 5 Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa bey...
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12 65 "Of what city?" "Of no city".
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20 60 Chronology, incidentally, is the despair of scholars on Gor, for each city keeps track of time by virtue of its own Administrator Lists; for example, a year is referred to as the Second Year when so-and-so was Administrator of the city.
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20 61 One might think that some stability would be provided by the Initiates, who must keep a calendar of their feasts and observances, but the Initiates of one city do not always celebrate the same feast on the same date as do those of another city.
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26 10 They have destroyed a city, and in a sense they have restored a city.
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26 107 But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and tower...
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1 2 He was an instructor in English history and I, intending to work for some three years to save money toward law school, had accepted an appointment as an instructor in physical education, a field which, to my annoyance, Cabot never convinced himself belonged in the curriculum of an educ...
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1 35 By that time I had long ago saved the money I needed for law school and had not taught for three years.
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1 36 Indeed, I was then completing my studies at the school of law associated with one of New York's best-known private universities.
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11 54 "Does the law of Tharna not give it the right to speak, Dorna the Proud, Second in Tharna?" asked the Tatrix, whose voice, too, was imperious and cold, yet pleased me more than the tones of she who wore the silver mask.
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11 55 "Does the law recognize beasts?" asked the woman whose name was Dorna the Proud.
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21 269 On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names.
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26 32 "And add to the golden tarn disks," she had exclaimed, "tarn disks of silver to be formed from the masks of our women, for henceforth in Tharna no woman may wear a mask of either gold or silver, not even though she be Tatrix of Tharna herself!" And as she had spoken, according to the customs of Thar...
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Book 3. (13 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 81 The expeditions sent out from the cities are of course extremely well guarded, but pirates and outlaws too can band together in large numbers and sometimes, even more dangerously, one city's warriors, in force, will prey upon another city's caravans.
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8 95 "My city is Treve," she said, for the first time telling me the name of her city.
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16 10 "Because my city was destroyed!" "That is why your city was destroyed," said Misk, "that you would come to the Sardar".
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17 93 Most of them were simply filled with the passing scenery of Gor; once I saw a city, but what city it was I could not tell.
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34 65 "Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the city, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself.
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1 54 The fairs, incidentally, are governed by Merchant law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged.
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1 56 Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant law when pertinent, even against their own citizens.
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1 63 Sometimes these men are merchants who wish thereby to secure goodwill for their products; sometimes they are practitioners of the law, who hope to sway the votes of jury men; sometimes they are Ubars or High Initiates who find it in their interests to keep the crowds amused.
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17 152 "Of course," said Sarm, "he broke the law of Priest-Kings".
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17 153 "What right have you to make the law for him?" I asked.
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25 18 I smiled to myself, for I could always tell her, and truthfully, that having saved her life she was now mine by Gorean law, so brief had been her freedom, and that it was up to me to determine the extent and nature of her clothing, and, indeed, whether or not she would be allowed cloth...
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25 48 It was the law of Priest-Kings.
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35 100 "If you should regain your power," I asked, "what do you propose to do with it? Will you still set forth the law in certain matters for men?" "Undoubtedly," said Misk.
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Book 4. (18 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 479 It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative—or nearest relative if no adult male...
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21 55 It is a nerve-wracking business, the negotiation of an enemy city, knowing that discovery might bring torture or sudden death, at best perhaps an impalement by sundown on the city's walls, a warning to any other who might be similarly tempted to transgress the hospitality...
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8 39 It might be added that there are two items which the Wagon Peoples will not sell or trade to Turia, one is a living bosk and the other is a girl from the city itself, though the latter are sometimes, for the sport of the young men, allowed, as it is said, to run for the city<...
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8 243 The problem of the young man, and perhaps the reason that he had not yet won even the Courage Scar of the Tuchuks, was that he had fallen into the hands of Turian raiders in his youth and had spent several years in the city; in his adolescence he had, at great risk to himself, escaped ...
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10 26 "Is it your wish," she asked, "that I run for the city?" She referred to a cruel sport of the young men of the wagons who sometimes take Turian slave girls to the sight of Turia's walls and then, loosening bola and thong, bid them run for the city.
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16 67 On the other hand, I reminded myself, my own probabilities of success and survival were hardly better—and here I was, his critic—climbing up the drum rope, wet, cold, puffing, a stranger to the city of Turia, intending to steal an object—the egg of Priest-Kingsâ...
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16 74 The walls provide a means for defending the water and also, of course, considering the number of wells in the city, some of which, by the way, are fed by springs, provide a number of defensible enclaves should portions of the city fall into enemy hands.
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22 2 One makes a pretext of seriously besieging a city, spending several days, sometimes weeks, in the endeavor, and then, apparently, one surrenders the siege and withdraws, moving away slowly with the wagons and bosk for some days—in this case four—and then, the bosk and wag...
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22 8 The city was largely without leadership, though here and there brave Turians had gathered guardsmen and men-at-arms and determined civilians and sealed off streets, forming fortresses within the city against the invaders.
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26 11 There were also, in the city, of course, hundreds of kaiila, though the main body of such mounts was outside the city, where game could be driven to them with greater ease.
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27 5 Turia had been a rich city, and though much gold had been given to the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel and the defenders of the House of Saphrar, it was a tiny amount when compared with the whole, not even counting that lost by being carried by civilians through the gates Kamchak had designated as...
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27 9 Kamchak, as a Tuchuk, could not bring himself to be quite as generous with the city's women, and the five thousand most beautiful girls of Turia were branded and given to the commanders of Hundreds, that they might be distributed to the bravest and fiercest of their warriors; the other...
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27 32 "Bring the Home Stone of the city," commanded Kamchak, and the stone, oval and aged, carved with the initial letter of the city, was brought to him.
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27 221 "This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main...
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9 18 There would be something, of course, to be said for such a claim, for the merchants are often indeed in their way, brave, shrewd, skilled men, making long journeys, venturing their goods, risking caravans, negotiating commercial agreements, among themselves developing and enforcing a body of Merchan...
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11 52 "How fortunate then," observed Saphrar, "that such a transaction is precluded by law".
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11 65 A slave, not being a person in the eyes of Gorean law, cannot possess a name in his own right, any more than an animal.
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11 66 Indeed, in the eyes of Gorean law, unfortunately, slaves are animals, utterly and unqualifiedly at the disposition of their masters, to do with as he pleases.
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Book 5. (22 results) Assassin of Gor

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17 160 Once in a paga tavern I heard a man, whom I recognized to be one of the guards from the iron pens, though now in the tunic of a Leather Worker, declaring that the city needed for its Administrator not a Builder but a Warrior, that law would again prevail.
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24 28 I knew that men would, and had, deserted the Home Stone of their own city to follow him into disgrace and exile, preferring outlawry and the mountains to the securities of citizenship and their city, asking only that they be permitted to ride beside him, to ...
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13 131 He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, again following th...
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1 22 These men of Ko-ro-ba, he knew, when their city had been destroyed by Priest-Kings, had been scattered to the ends of Gor but, when permitted by Priest-Kings, they had returned to their city to rebuild it, each bearing a stone to add to its walls.
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1 35 There were three who stood near the pyre; one wore the brown robes of the Administrator of a city, the humblest robes in the city, and was hooded; another wore the blue of the Caste of Scribes, a small man, almost tiny, bent now with pain and grief; the last was a very la...
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2 176 "It has been hard in Ar," said the man, "since the deposition of Kazrak of Port Kar as Administrator of the city, and since the murder of Om, the High Initiate of the city".
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2 188 And since Kazrak was originally, perhaps surprisingly, of Port Kar, a city not on particularly good terms with Ar, or any other Gorean city, there was the hint of sedition in such matters.
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2 255 "The Administrator is appointed by the High Council of the city and the High Initiate by the High Council of the Initiates of the city".
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5 612 Month names differ, unfortunately, from city to city, but, among the civilized cities, there are four months, associated with the equinoxes and solstices, and the great fairs at the Sardar, which do have common names, the months of En'Kara, or En'Kara-Lar-Torvis; En'Var, ...
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7 32 "So even the equanimity of an Assassin can be shaken! Yes, the Ubar of a city, and you may choose the city, any save Ar, on whose throne I, Cernus, will sit".
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13 14 The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission, the securing of a female,...
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16 27 The great bars suspended about the walls of the city then ring out for more than an Ahn with their din, and the doors of the city burst open and the people crowd out onto the bridges, clad in the splendor of their finest, singing and laughing.
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20 366 My champion was Hup, a Fool, that of Cernus was the brilliant, fiery, competitive Scormus of Ar, the young, phenomenal Scormus, who played first board of the city of Ar and held the highest bridge in the city as the province of his game, the master not only of the Players...
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2 197 "There seems little law now," said Portus.
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11 325 The male of Earth is conditioned to be more timid, vacillating and repressed than the males of Gor; to be subject, to achieve social controls, to guilts and anxieties that would be as incomprehensible to the Gorean male as a guilt over having spoken to one's father-in-law's sister woul...
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15 403 Gorean law, however, does not so regard them.
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16 211 If a substantial proportion of races are not won in the first two seasons the law of the Stadium of Tarns discontinues its recognition of that faction.
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17 206 Shortly thereafter Maximus Hegesius Quintilius was found dead, poisoned by the bite of a girl in his Pleasure Gardens, who, before she could be brought before the Scribes of the law, was strangled by enraged Taurentians, to whom she had been turned over; it was well known that the Taur...
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18 170 Those who contract the disease are regarded by law as dead.
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24 450 "Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the Home Stone?" I gasped.
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24 456 "As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the Home Stone of Ar".
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24 472 "If a Ubar does not respect the law of the Home Stone, what man shall?" "None," said I.
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Book 6. (8 results) Raiders of Gor

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11 358 "Be it known to you, Ubars," said he, "that Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, now proposes to the council that it take into its own hands the full and sole governance of the city of Port Kar, with full powers, whether of policy and decree, of enforcement, of taxation and law 7
10 26 The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.
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15 210 In Gorean law a slave is an animal; before the law he has no rights; he is dependent on his master not only for his name but for his very life; he may be disposed of by the master at any time and in any way the master pleases.
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10 40 It lay on the eastern edge of Port Kar, backing on the marshes; it opened, by means of a huge barred gate, to the canals of the city; in its courtyard were wharved his seven ships; when journeying to Thassa the great gate was opened and they were rowed through the city to...
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13 520 It was, accordingly, no accident that I, Bosk, from the marshes, in the Fifth Passage Hand of the year 10,120 from the founding of the city of Ar, four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar, stood admiral on the stern castle of my ...
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18 43 I did not know if the victory we had won, for victory it surely seemed to be, was decisive or not, but I well knew that the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, for that was the day on which this battle had been fought, would not be soon forgotten in Port Kar, that city once called squalid and mal...
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15 121 Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law.
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15 123 For the first time in several years one could count on the law being the same on both sides of a given canal.
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Book 7. (18 results) Captive of Gor

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12 721 It is a favorite sport of tarnsmen to streak their tarn over an enemy city and, in such a fashion, capture an enemy girl from one of the city's high bridges, carrying her off, while the citizens of the city scream in fury, shaking their fists at the bold one...
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14 498 Her slavery is likely to be harder in her own city than it would be in an alien city, even an enemy city.
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6 147 I live in New York city, which is a city on the planet Earth.
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11 150 A master of the city, of course, who might be leaving the city temporarily, could also rent space in the public pens, to board his slaves there.
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11 982 We were on our way to the city of Ko-ro-ba, where we would receive training, and from thence we would journey in a southeastern direction toward the great city of Ar.
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13 91 If a city does not see that her youth undertake this journey then, according to the teachings of the Initiates, misfortunes may befall the city.
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13 115 For four years, Ute, then a beauty, passed from one master to another, taken from city to city.
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14 481 In a city, does one not clear away the trash, the rags and rubbish, the litter, debris and rubble? Rejoice then that worthless slave meat, which can, unfortunately, be found in any city, is detected, and hastened from its precincts.
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14 494 Some cities, finding her again within their walls, rather than selling her out of the city, actually prefer keeping her in the city, that she might feel her bondage the more keenly, as a kind of object lesson, for her and others.
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14 500 Better a collar anywhere, she weeps, than in what was once her own city! Sometimes a fellow of the city who knows her will find her there, in the paga tavern, only another girl, nude, kneeling, rising, hurrying to serve her master's customers.
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14 688 "I, Miss Elinor Brinton, of New York city, to the Warrior, Rask, of the High city of Treve, herewith submit myself as a slave girl.
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11 379 She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most practical purp...
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12 440 The stockades are governed under Merchant law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.
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14 420 Perhaps one of the things that free women most envy in slaves is that they are not only permitted to reveal their beauty but that they must, even in the light of law, do so.
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14 467 Gorean law is on his side, not hers.
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14 468 Indeed, as an animal, she has no standing whatsoever before the law.
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16 287 On Gor, of course, her relationship to the master is open, public, institutionalized, accepted, taken for granted, and celebrated, a matter of law.
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18 38 By Gorean law the companionship, to be binding, must, together, be annually renewed, pledged afresh with the wines of love.
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Book 8. (8 results) Hunters of Gor

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3 51 In Port Kar, my city, the utilization of the facilities of the port is regulated by a board of four magistrates, the Port Consortium, which reports directly to the Council of Captains, which, since the downfall of the warring Ubars, is sovereign in the city.
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12 18 Subsequently, they are commonly awarded to high officers or men who have especially distinguished themselves in the taking of the city, perhaps an individual who has led a sortie which successfully stormed a gate, or the first man upon the enemy's walls, or one who has captured a membe...
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19 434 "My city," I said, "was the city of Ko-ro-ba.
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1 97 It was true that the Companionship, not renewed, had been dissolved in the eyes of Gorean law.
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1 321 The Gorean slave, in the eyes of Gorean law, is an animal, with no legal title to a name.
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3 41 The Merchants, who control Lydius, under Merchant law, for it is a free port, like Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, are more interested in having their port heavily trafficked than strictly policed.
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9 163 In law, and in the eyes of Goreans, Talena was now without family.
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11 60 In the eyes of Goreans, and Gorean law, the slave is an animal.
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Book 9. (9 results) Marauders of Gor

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8 46 This was adopted immediately in Ar, and, city by city, became rather general.
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1 259 At that point, in Gorean law, the companionship had been dissolved.
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2 88 There is often a tension between them and the civil authorities, for each regards themselves as supreme in matters of policy and law for their districts.
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6 393 Most lived in ships, the steel wolves of space, their instincts bridled, to some extent, by Ship Loyalty, Ship law.
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6 433 "It was set so high," said he, "out of the reach of custom and law, against the protests of the rune-priests and his own men, that none, in his belief, could pay it".
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10 73 Blows are not to be struck at the Thing, but not even the law of the Thing, with all its might, would have the temerity to advise the man of Torvaldsland to arrive or move about unarmed.
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10 89 In the crowd, too, much in evidence, were brazen bondmaids; they had been brought to the Thing, generally, by captains and Jarls; it is not unusual for men to bring such slaves with them, though they are not permitted near the law courts or the assemblies of deliberation; the voyages t...
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10 155 A man, incredibly enough, may be challenged by such a fellow for his farm, or his companion, or daughter; if the challenge is not accepted, the stake is forfeit; if the challenge is accepted, of course, he who is challenged risks his life among the hazel wands; he may be slain; then, too, of course,...
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12 18 About them, some on the dais, and some below it, stood his high officers, and his men of law, his counselors, his captains, and the chief men from his scattered farms and holdings; too, much in evidence, were more than four hundred of his men-at-arms.
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Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 286 In the cafes, as in the paga taverns of the north, one learns the realities of a city, what is its latest news, what is afoot in the city, what are its dangers, its pleasures, and where its power lies.
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1 786 Had they known the weakness of the Sardar, and the time required to restore the power source, regenerating itself now at inexorable concentration rates determined by natural law, they would have surely launched their fleets.
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5 762 The collar, by Gorean law, canceled the past.
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9 86 "More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari.
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10 12 The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.
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12 168 Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the seraglio, backe...
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12 300 "It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari custom," I said, "that I am not a slave, for though I am a prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I performed a gesture of submission".
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13 76 He holds within his territories the right of law and execution.
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17 34 His will, his word, in the kennel decrees law.
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17 94 One must speak carefully whose words become law.
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24 806 "Men on Earth," she cried, "will be dethroned by law!" "Earth has a complex and intricate political history," I said.
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26 1208 Further, Gor was the true prize of the planets rotating about the sun, not the Earth, for, in the name of rights and liberty, and business, the fools of Earth, confused by the rhetoric of law and morality, shielding short-sighted greed and madness, had stood aside, permitting the poiso...
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Book 11. (27 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 148 If a village markets in a given city, that city, by Gorean custom, stands as its shield, a relationship which, of course, works to the advantage of both the villages and city, the city receiving produce in its markets, the villages receiving th...
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26 202 "You understand further, of course," said he, "that under Gorean merchant law, which is the only law commonly acknowledged binding between cities, that you stand under separate permissions of enslavement.
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3 530 In the fall of the city of Turia, some years ago, thousands of its citizens had fled, many of them merchants or of merchant families; with the preservation of the city, and the restoration of the Ubarate of Phanius Turmus, many of these families returned; new contacts had...
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2 718 These things vary, I learned, from city to city, and depend, also, on such matters as context and conditions.
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3 269 In one form there a hundred young men and a hundred young women of one city, the women selected for their beauty, enter the ring in competition with a hundred young men and a hundred young women of another city, similarly selected.
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3 277 Women from the victorious city who may have been captured are, of course, upon the victory of their city, freed.
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3 278 Women from the conquered city, on the other hand, are not; they are kept; they are turned over to the young males of the capturing city; in the game in which the first hundred captures decides victory this means there is a girl for each participating young man, usually on...
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4 82 The original beans, I suppose, had been brought, like certain other Gorean products, from Earth; it is not impossible, of course, that the opposite is the case, that black wine is native to Gor and that the origin of Earth's coffee beans is Gorean; I regard this as unlikely, however, because black w...
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4 83 Had I known more of Gor I would have speculated that my masters might have sworn their swords to the defense of Thentis, that they were of that city, but, as I was later to learn, they were of another city, one called Ar.
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5 17 This sort of thing, however, varies considerably from city to city.
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5 147 It is common, of course, for a city to protect those villages, whether they are tributary to the city or not, which make use of its market.
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11 207 In a banner keep, or one maintained by a given city, preference, if not exclusive rights, are accorded to the merchants and citizens of the city under whose banner the keep is established and administered.
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13 169 It had been a commercial raid, not an insult raid, nor a vengeance raid, in which, say, the free women of one city were taken to be the slaves of those of another city.
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18 81 Even should she attain her own city, she will be kept there as a slave, for she is then a slave, or, more likely, she will be soon sold out of the city, after having been muchly lashed, that she bring no more shame upon it.
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26 223 Further, the youth of Gor, in most cities, must be vouched for by citizens of the city, not related in blood to him, and be questioned before a committee of citizens, intent upon determining his worthiness or lack thereof to take the Home Stone of the city as his own.
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28 165 If a Ubara of a conquered city, for example, were to be sold, it would, customarily, be in such a special sale, unless the victorious Ubar, he who had conquered her city and captured her, chose to have her sold, for his amusement, in a common sale and from an unimportant ...
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3 481 The brand has on Gor legal, institutional status; that which it marks it makes an object; its victim has no rights, or appeal, within the law.
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3 531 That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th...
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5 142 The Companion Contract, thus, had been duly negotiated, with the attention of scribes of the law from both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria.
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5 198 Some cities are governed by a Ubar, who is in effect a military sovereign, sometimes a tyrant, whose word is law.
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6 55 I now saw them as unique, exciting masters, each different and incredibly individual, who might, for a word or gesture, have me; how could I not regard them differently from a free woman; and, too, doubtless, they saw me in a similarly immediate and intensely personal fashion, not as an object shiel...
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7 227 The slave is not a person before Gorean law but a rightless animal.
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9 934 If it were true, in Gorean law, it could be no slander.
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9 959 If this were true, it was, in Gorean law, no slander.
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22 358 The slave is seen as a lovely property which may be purchased or stolen, owned and mastered; she has no standing in the eyes of the law; she is rightless and vulnerable; she belongs to the master and must obey and serve him; she exists to please; that is her purpose; she must hope to w...
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22 451 This not only has its profound erotic effect on the slave and others, but it usefully, from the point of view of merchant law, identifies her as a slave.
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24 97 "And it is a civic matter, and you have been authorized to apprehend her and bring her before a slave praetor?" Slaves, as animals, lack standing before the law.
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Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 4 In the contest a hundred young men of each city, and a hundred young women, the most beautiful in each city, participate.
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3 25 The captured women of the victorious city at the conclusion of the contest are of course released; they are robed and honored; the girls of the losing city, of course, are simply stripped and made slaves.
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3 706 These things vary from city to city, depending on the coin, its weight, its fineness, and so on, but a hundred copper tarsks are normally equivalent to a silver tarsk.
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15 847 This varies somewhat of course, from city to city.
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3 75 It is here that Merchant law is drafted and stabilized.
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15 486 Gorean law, of course, is complex and latitudinous on these matters.
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Book 13. (15 results) Explorers of Gor

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48 255 Technically, according to Merchant law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal matters, the girls become briefly the property of their rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to Merchant law, the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl.
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48 262 It is claimed they have shamed their former city by having fallen slave, and if they were good enough to be only slaves in the conquered city then surely they should be no more within the walls of the victorious city.
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4 385 This makes it possible for merchant ships, round ships, with permanently fixed masts, to move within the city, and, from the military point of view, makes it possible to block canals and also, when drawn back, isolate given areas of the city by the canals which function t...
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12 325 There were many, actually, and they tended to vary from tavern to tavern, and from city to city.
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32 551 The architecture of the city was identical to that of the ruins we had earlier visited, but this city was not in ruins.
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48 254 Sometimes, in the fall of a city, girls who have been enslaved, girls formerly of the now-victorious city, will be freed.
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50 1 The Lake; The Ancient city; We Will Enter the Ancient city "It is so vast," said Ayari.
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4 128 Also, of course, one standing before the desk must look up to see the praetor, which, psychologically, tends to induce a feeling of fear for the power of the law.
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4 192 Then I was naked! Find her, if you wish to be busy with matters of the law! I was the victim of theft! It was stolen from me, my garment! You should be hunting her, the thief, not holding me here.
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18 44 Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.
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27 154 Too, it is in accord with Merchant law.
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32 337 "Also," I said, "if you are interested in these matters, you are not simply an animal in the literal sense, in the biological sense of 'animal', but in the sense that persons, individuals with rights before the law, are distinguished from animals".
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32 341 In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal.
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34 259 "Technically," I said, "in the eyes of Gorean law you are not an object but an animal".
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51 107 The brief garments of the female slave identify her instantly as slave, comply with recommendations of Merchant law, brazenly display her flesh which is that of an animal for the delectation of free men, impress upon her her lowly status, and, interestingly, keep her in a state of sexu...
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Book 14. (15 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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13 440 The pace of life in a Gorean city, even a large city such as Ar, does not tend to be swift.
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22 382 In all fairness, though, one must note that there is a large variety of slave dances on Gor, and that there is some variation from city to city.
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27 115 I know of only one Gorean city which did not, at least for a time, practice the institution of female slavery, Tharna, but apparently after a time of tumult and chaos, and revolution, the institution was established, or restored, in that city.
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34 175 And just as it is not unusual for a given master to claim that, say, his slave is the most beautiful and desirable in the entire city, and he probably believes this, so, too, it is not unusual for a city to claim that its slaves are the most beautiful and desirable of all...
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34 176 Certainly one of the great pleasures of visiting a new Gorean city is to gaze upon, consider, and appraise her slaves, comparing them doubtless to those of one's own city.
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34 182 It is interesting to note, while on this topic, that on the occasion of the arrival in one city of an important delegation from another city it often seems as though special arrangements have been made in certain particulars.
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2 75 You are not yet a legal slave, a slave under law.
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2 79 You will eventually find that you are, fully and legally, under law, a slave, totally a slave, and only a slave".
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12 32 Is it truly easier, I wonder, to adopt columns and arches, philosophy and poetry, mathematics and medicine, and law, than a rational mode of dress.
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12 373 I have not mentioned, either, slaves with professional competencies, such as medicine or law, or fighting slaves, in effect gladiators, men purchased for use as bodyguards or combatants in arranged games.
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24 82 These are the three standard marking places, following the recommendations of Merchant law, for the marking of Kajirae, with the left thigh being, in practice, the overwhelmingly favored brand site.
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27 114 It has proven to be an especially viable social institution, contributing to the stability and practicality of society, and it is honored in mores and sanctioned in law.
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27 296 "There is a breakdown of law and order".
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27 372 The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant law.
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34 157 Her position is sanctioned in law.
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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29 55 When a Gorean city founds a colony, usually as a result of internal overpopulation or political dissension, the potential colonists, typically, even before leaving the mother city, develop their own charter, constitution and laws.
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21 297 It is a complex, vital, bright, colorful, deeply sensuous civilization; it is a harsh, gorgeous world in which the slave girl has a special role and place; her condition is unquestioned and categorical; it is supported by history, by custom and law; there is absolutely no escape for he...
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24 392 The fullest slave, of course, is she who is a natural slave, and then, beyond this, truly wears the collar, that slave who is a slave by nature and whose slavery, released, is then confirmed and fixed upon her openly, publicly, by all the sanctions of custom and law, for all the world ...
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24 400 Beyond this, of course, we knew we were, categorically and absolutely, legal slaves, lovely properties which might be bartered and sold, and who might figure in transactions which would be upheld in any court of law.
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26 101 In his treatment of her he is untrammeled by either conscience or law, and this she knows, and loves, and, accordingly, hastens to obey and be pleasing.
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Book 16. (10 results) Guardsman of Gor

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10 126 The dance was the sort that free maidens of a city might perform to honor and welcome visiting dignitaries, or the ambassador and his entourage, of a foreign city.
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20 888 Not only can the dances differ from city to city, and town to town, and even from tavern to tavern, but they are likely to differ, too, even from girl to girl.
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21 254 I trust that if I err in certain others which may be less familiar, or of which I am simply ignorant, for these things may differ from city to city, and town to town, and domicile to domicile, you will inform me of my error, and the nature of what is required, and spare t...
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8 315 But the former, the slave girl, is owned with all the power and authority of law.
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12 161 This was in full accord with Gorean law.
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17 793 "It is against the law," she said.
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20 1642 If castration makes them happy, who could be so heartless as to deny them this gratification? But to apply the knife, through discourse, and teaching, and law, to the innocent and unwilling is indeed offensive.
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20 1684 She was shielded by law.
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20 1887 The bondage relationship explicitly, in civil law, is perhaps best understood as the acknowledgment of nature's work and its elaboration and enhancement within a complex civilized framework.
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21 63 "On this world, the law even, as I am a slave, in all its force, puts me in your total power".
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Book 17. (16 results) Savages of Gor

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2 107 They come to the sea walls flying the merchant flag which, in virtue of Merchant law, the only law common to civilized Gor other than the rules and dictates of Priest-Kings, normally allows access to a Gorean Port.
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13 671 "Merchant law," I said, "is the only law common to many Gorean cities".
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8 8 To be sure, there is, it seems, from market to market, and from city to city, an almost infinite variety of ways in which women may be, and are, displayed and sold.
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1 1286 "Due process of law, as you may see," said Kog, "was strictly observed".
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1 1302 "All law exists to serve the interests of the dominant powers," said Kog.
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1 1305 law which is not a weapon and a wall is madness".
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2 357 It is a felony in Gorean law to forge or falsify such papers.
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10 61 A law, imposed on white men entering their lands by red savages, had been violated.
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13 669 "And such things, like the brand, are recommended by Merchant law".
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13 1188 She is now, commonly, a collared, embonded beauty, properly marked as merchandise, effectively displayed and marketed, and owned in the full right of law".
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17 446 Another approach might be to envision a world compatible with reality and congenial to human nature, a world in which science, even social science, might be free, a world in which truth would not be against the law, a world designed not for the crippling, distortion and torture of huma...
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18 174 "Surely we have broken no law," I said.
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18 176 "I do not think they need more law than that".
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18 181 "Surely there is no law to the effect that you should not be freed," I said.
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18 182 "There is no law specifically to that effect," he said, "but I would not count on their being much pleased about it".
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18 186 "If there were such a law," asked the youth, "would you have broken it?" "Yes," I said.
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Book 18. (9 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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2 50 Needless to say there are a large number of enslavement formulas and ceremonies; too, these things can vary interestingly from group to group, from area to area, and from city to city.
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4 85 She lived now, free, but sequestered and dishonored, in the city of Ar, in the Central Cylinder itself, perhaps the most fortified, best-defended tower or keep in that huge city.
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2 130 The collar is recommended, of course, and branding, by Merchant law, for obvious reasons.
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7 184 It is almost like a law of nature.
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14 591 "It is against the law," I said.
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40 655 You could be returned to a master as such in a court of law.
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44 715 Even in the entrapments of law it is by men that the sword is wielded, even when they are tricked into turning it against themselves.
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54 300 The community was now, in effect, a small freehold in the Barrens, and yet, strictly, in the letter of the law, stood to the Kaiila as a leased tenancy.
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54 313 In Gorean law allegiances to a Home Stone, and not physical structures and locations, tend to define communities.
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Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
26 245 It is almost a sport among Gorean young men, to hunt and capture a woman of a hostile city and bring her back to one's own city as a stripped slave.
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26 248 It might be noted, lastly, that a woman who is stolen from a given city, if she has been enslaved, should she somehow find herself again in her native city, will still be a slave.
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33 269 "You were, several months ago, were you not, found guilty of certain alleged commercial irregularities in the city of Corcyrus, and banished for a time from the city?" "Yes," said Speusippus.
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33 679 How, except for such power, could a barbarian woman, such as Sheila, the former Tatrix of Corcyrus, come to power in a city such as Corcyrus? I suspect, also, that the true motivation of the attack on the mines of Argentum was not to fill the coffers of Corcyrus, already a prosperous <...
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33 680 They intend, perhaps, failing success in outward aggression, to subvert our world, city by city, or to form a league of cities, that may become dominant among our states.
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36 648 Young men occasionally travel from city to city, to assess the slaves.
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3 337 "It is in accord with the recommendations of merchant law".
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3 338 "Merchant law?" I asked.
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3 460 It thus becomes a question as to which among these animals own and which are owned, which, so to speak, count as persons, or have standing, before the law, and which do not, which are, so to speak, the citizens or persons, and which are the animals".
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6 613 This might be regarded as the civilized expression of the biological relationship, a recognition of that relationship, and perhaps an enhancement, refinement and celebration of it, and, within the context of custom and law, of course, a clarification and consolidation of it.
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14 45 But I was a free woman and would be subjected only to the cold and inhuman mercies of the law.
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23 345 It was a strong recommendation of Merchant law that slaves be marked.
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28 38 In some cities it is against the law for them to do so.
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Book 20. (17 results) Players of Gor

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1 487 Here the matter differs from city to city.
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2 628 Coinage on Gor varies considerably from city to city.
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12 520 I must soon, in the performances, I feared, hood the Lady Yanina, or perhaps, better, sell the wench to someone bound in another direction, and replace her altogether with another girl, presumably a slave, whom I might purchase somewhere, a girl it would be safer to take into Brundisium, one not fro...
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16 44 Another advantage of choosing a distant city is that there are not likely to be citizens of that city in the audience, who might take exception to the performance, though, to be sure, most Goreans understand what is going on and tend to enjoy the farce immensely, even if ...
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16 284 Too, the theft took place just shortly before we left the city, thus permitting them to be in the place of the crime itself, and then giving them time to flee the city.
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21 240 "I have entered the city only within the Ahn, immediately ordering the city captain to report to me.
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21 454 Too, I suspected that the city captain had now assumed authority in the city, now that Belnar had been killed.
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1 485 The law is clear on this.
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1 1099 This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law.
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2 1662 Similarly you do not have her socio-natural vulnerability, that of the legal slave, helplessly so, in a society in which the institution of slavery is accepted, ingredient, pervasive, and honored, an unshakable matter, for thousands of years, of policy, tradition, and law".
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7 269 There was no law against two traveling it.
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8 272 "Show yourself," he cried, "as befits your office, that of those who courageously do war with brigands, that of those who do nobly defend and support the law, or as plain honest men, if that you be, that I may ally myself with you, that we may then offer to one another, no, then pledge...
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9 413 Similarly, as I am sure you will recognize, at least upon reflection, you now have no standing whatsoever before the law.
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16 336 "I shall have you taken before the law for slander!" "Do you wish to have it done for you?" inquired Chino, meaningfully.
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16 443 "I shall have the law on you for this!" cried Rowena.
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16 444 "Slaves have no standing before the law," said Chino.
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18 297 "Martial law exists," said Belnar.
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Book 21. (10 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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14 55 "The city is under martial law," I said.
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9 86 Once a Gorean city closes its gates it is usually difficult to leave the city.
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18 260 "Yet, there are some I have heard of," I said, "who might deny a natural slave her bondage, even by law, no matter what might be the mental, emotional, and physical damage of this".
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19 195 He may even have been a scribe of the law.
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21 162 "I am not a scribe of the law," he said.
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22 84 "But it is also against the law".
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25 352 One of the glories of the Gorean culture is that it has a body of law, sanctioned by tradition and mercilessly enforced, pertaining, without evasion or subterfuge, to this relationship.
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25 1419 In Gorean thought, and, indeed, Gorean law is explicit on this, what is owned is the whole slave.
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25 2300 "They will attempt to use law," she said, "using men against men, using them as their dupes and tools, until the last man can be destroyed".
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25 2307 Any such law is automatically null and void.
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Book 22. (21 results) Dancer of Gor

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16 96 Although this varies from city to city, it is not unusual for a silver tarsk to be exchangeable for a hundred copper tarsks, each one of which can be worth anywhere from ten to four tarsk bits, usually eight.
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20 196 Also, of course, they would generally not be citizens of the city and in the city there would be little opportunity for them to practice their caste crafts.
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23 93 Venna is a small, lovely city, largely a resort city, north of Ar, on the Viktel Aria.
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29 113 Tharnans seldom bring slaves into the city or, indeed, sell them out of the city.
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29 1403 "I traveled from city to city.
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4 388 "Such things are prescribed by merchant law," he said.
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5 44 When she had been used before my kennel she had been under "gag law," as is common when the guards use a girl, forbidden speech, save for moans and whimpers.
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6 327 How fearful it would be, I thought, if such a female, or such females, in all their hatred and frustration, should manage by lies, propaganda, misrepresentation, manipulation, distortion, chicanery and law, swiftly or gradually, perhaps almost unnoticeably, to bring about the ruination...
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6 596 I had noted, with interest, that although they were from different worlds, they, in the throes of their intimate employments, at first submitting to and enduring, then accepting, then reveling in, and, at last, kneeling and licking, mutely begging and pleading for their ravishments, in their whimper...
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6 627 I recalled hearing now, in the house, of "capture rights," respected in law.
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6 634 If I were to flee the thief, however, after he has consolidated his hold on me, for example, kept me for even a night, I could, actually in Gorean law, be counted as a runaway slave, from him, even though he did not technically own me yet, and punished accordingly.
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10 493 Even Gorean law makes it clear that it is the entire slave who is owned, not merely a part of her.
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11 214 It would soon be replaced, we may suppose, with a new and more appropriate status, that of being a slave legally, a status fixed on her then with all the clarity and obduracy of Gorean law, and fixed on her for all the world to see, fixed on her as plainly as the collar on her neck and...
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13 796 Of course, I would call men "Master"! They were my masters, and not only in the order of nature, but here, too, in the order of law.
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17 104 The public buildings, the law court and the "house of the Administrator," the locus of public offices, were similarly structured and adorned.
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24 19 His work chains, however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments.
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28 101 This point in Gorean law is apparently motivated by the consideration that a slave always have some master.
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29 185 Too, anyone whose citizenship, for whatever reason, is rescinded or revoked, with due process of law, is no longer entitled to the protections and rights of that polity's Home Stone.
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29 1574 He held a steel sword, where such things made law.
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34 175 It is as though all the forces of communication, education and law had gone insane, with no better objective than to bring the sexes to ruin, destroy the human gene pool and doom the species".
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34 632 "I am yours in the sight of law, yours, owned, in fullest legality, and doubtless you are well aware, as well, that I am helpless in your arms, and writhe helplessly there, and hasten to obey in all things, fearful of my master's wrath, and that I am your slave conquest, and property, ...
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Book 23. (13 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
16 393 Although there are various legal qualifications involved, which vary from city to city, effective, or active, possession is generally regarded as crucial from the point of view of the law, such possession being taken, no other claims forthcoming within a spe...
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21 845 The rape of a free woman on Gor, however, it must be understood, if one shares a Home Stone with her, can be a very serious offense, even involving exile; in such a case, it is interesting to note that the woman often chooses to follow the man into exile, even though she must then, in law<...
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5 736 She was not, technically, at least at present, a slave in the eyes of the law, as an animal is an animal in the eyes of the law, a tarsk a tarsk, a vulo, so soft and pretty, a vulo.
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2 100 These had entered the city through aqueducts, literally over the heads of unsuspecting Cosian armies camped about the city.
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15 88 Such customs, I supposed, would differ from city to city.
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9 214 The law, the culture, and such, are not set up to permit it.
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20 220 Perhaps that is because the reconciliation and coordination of chronologies, like the diction and convolutions of the law, are usually regarded as scribal prerogatives.
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20 310 "It must be clearly understood, by all," said Calliodorus, standing up, smiling, putting his half of the topaz into his pouch, "that the Vosk League, a neutral force on the river, one devoted merely to the task of maintaining law and order on the river, is certainly in no way involved ...
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21 315 Few of them, accordingly, are eager to frequent law courts.
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21 358 The legal problems connected with intent to deceive with respect to caste, of course, problems of the sort which presumably constitute the rationale of the law, usually come up in cases of fraud or impersonation, for example, with someone pretending to be of the Physicians.
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21 776 "Surely a polity, even if it be one of pirates, if it is to survive, if it is to protect itself, must establish some forms of justice and law within its own precincts?" "One would suppose so," I said.
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21 958 In the modality of master and slave is found the recognition of, and institutionalization of, within a civilized framework of law, custom and tradition, the ancient complementarity of the sexes, a complementarity consequent upon the extreme and beautiful dimorphism, physically and psyc...
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24 974 I was once, in the eyes of the law, a free woman".
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Book 24. (19 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
12 28 In some cities the veil is prescribed by law for free women, as well as by custom and etiquette; and in most cities it is prohibited, by law, to slaves.
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12 71 I was Tarl, of Port Kar, city of the great arsenal, city of many canals, Jewel of Gleaming Thassa.
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28 79 This was a reference to the citizenship ceremony which, following the oath of allegiance to the city, involves an actual touching of the city's Home Stone.
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29 106 In this particular signal, one of several which, from city to city, might have similar import, the downward movement of the hand indicates that the girl is to kneel, the place where she is to kneel is indicated in effect by pointing, and the spreading of the fingers indic...
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36 150 The streets are, after all, the streets of their city, and their city is, after all, the place of their Home Stone.
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36 168 She was, after all, a woman of Ar, for which city he now held little love, that city which had abandoned Ar's Station to her fate; too, she was a traitress and such tend, regardless of the side they have betrayed, to be treated with great contempt and severity by Gorean m...
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1 891 Given this, it may be seen that, in a sense, the brand and collar, as lovely and decorative as they are, and as exciting and profoundly meaningful as they are, when they are fixed on a woman, and she wears them, and as obviously important as they are from the point of view of property law<...
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12 263 That is because they, though legally free, within the strict technicalities of the law, are yet slaves.
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19 147 Perhaps she is somewhat uneasy; perhaps she is curious; perhaps she wonders, if he is attractive, what it might be like to be at his feet, unclothed and bound, his, his by all the rules and law of capture.
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19 160 Yet, I supposed, that such an absurdity, such an oversight of law, and civilization, was not irremediable.
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19 285 Against such fraud, needless to say, the law provides redress.
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19 337 "It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, "and to merchant law, as well".
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19 341 Aside from questions of legality, compliance with the law, and such, I think it will be clear upon a moment's reflection that various practical considerations also commend slave branding to the attention of the owner, in particular, the identification of the article as property, this t...
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26 58 In Tharnan law a person conceived by a free person on a free person is considered to be a free person, even if they are later carried and borne by a slave.
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26 190 Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining to slaves.
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28 645 "In this situation," I said, "in law, as well as in fact".
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39 21 "It is against the law," said the fellow.
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39 94 Now, however, she was not merely a natural slave, aware of herself, reduced, and self-confessed, begging the resolution and solace of the collar, but a legal slave, fully and perfectly embonded in law.
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40 45 He was, I suspected, a scribe of the law.
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Book 25. (41 results) Magicians of Gor

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4 11 "Curses upon Ar's Station," he cried, "city faithless and without honor, suborned ally, taker of bribes, refuge of scoundrels, home of cowards, betrayer of the mother city! Down with Ar's Station.
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4 62 In any event, most of those in the city, surely the largest part, by far, of its population, had no practical way to leave the city, lest it be on foot.
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7 262 Almost always they will be publicly and ceremoniously enslaved, either before or after the triumph, either in their own city or in the city of the conqueror.
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7 339 "She, in her own name, and in the name of the people and Home Stone of Ar, gives thanks to our friends and brothers of Cos, for the delivery of her city from the tyranny of Gnieus Lelius and for the liberation of her people!" At this point, doubtless by a prearranged signal, the great ...
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8 165 Incidentally, many buildings, particularly public buildings, in this part of the city, which was an older part of the city, were quite old.
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9 604 It is one thing, of course, for a fellow in a flaming city to throw a woman against a wall and tear off her clothes and then, if he likes her, keep her, and quite another for the women of a conquered city, levied, and in the name of reparations, atonement, and such, to li...
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10 364 Although there is some variance from caste to caste, and city to city, it is common for free women to veil themselves in public.
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10 440 Women taken in a given city, incidentally, are usually sold out of the city, to wear their collars elsewhere.
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16 276 "What city opened her gates to the expeditionary force of Cos?" "No city," said Marcus, angrily.
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22 468 For example, portions of invading forces have upon several occasions, in one city or another, literally become lost in the city, with the result that they have been unable to rally, rendezvous, group and attain objectives.
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22 469 Cases have been reported where an enemy force has literally withdrawn from a city and some of its components have remained in the city, wandering about for a day or two, out of communication with the main forces.
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22 473 It is illegal in many cities, incidentally, to take maps of the city out of the city.
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28 16 They can stand, for example, for a city, and, indeed, are sometimes identified with the city.
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28 88 Yet how unfair was this to the perceptive young, piercing the propaganda, scorning the public boards, recognizing without being told what was being done to them and their city, smarting with shame, burning with indignation, recollective of Ar's glory, the young in whom flowed the blood...
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1 1 The Street "Surely you understand the law, my dear," he said.
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1 19 "I am sure you are familiar with the law," said the first fellow, flanked by two magistrates.
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1 24 It is a clear law".
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3 284 Surely she must have known the law.
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8 846 "It is against the law," he said.
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8 847 "Not our law," I said.
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9 95 "Are you a legal slave, my child?" asked one of the counselors, a scribe of the law.
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9 440 "It is one thing to be captured by a man and taken to his tent, and put to his feet and made to serve, or to be sentenced by a magistrate in due course of law to slavery for crimes which I have actually committed, and another to stand here publicly shamed, before my enemy, a woman, in ...
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11 134 "I am a law-abiding man.
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14 263 The testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture in Gorean law courts.
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15 173 I supposed that the taverners must be much put out by the curfew law, and would have lost much business.
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19 484 By such an act, the couching with, or readying herself to couch with, a slave, as though she might be a girl of the slave's master, thrown to the slave, she shows herself as no more than a slave, and in this act, in law, becomes a slave.
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19 485 Who then should own her, this new slave? Why, of course, he to whom the law consigns her, the master of the slave with whom she has couched, or was preparing to couch.
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19 1386 In this sense the slave is accorded some protection from free persons who do not own her in virtue of certain general considerations of property law.
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20 728 How far we were from the cave and the stone knife, I thought, and yet, again, in a way, how close! Could one not see in the blade of steel, so much keener and more dangerous, the knife of stone? Could one not recollect in the spacious courts of the palace the dim recesses of limestone caves? And who...
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22 227 "It is the law! We of Ar may not carry weapons".
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22 633 Merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on Gor.
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22 634 Such things do exist in municipal law on Gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local.
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26 477 "The principle here, I gather," said Marcus, "is that the Ubara is above the law".
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26 478 "The law in question is a serious one," said Tolnar.
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26 482 "I am Ubara!" "The Ubara is above the law?" asked Marcus, who had an interest in such things.
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26 483 "In a sense, yes," said Tolnar, "the sense in which she can change the law by decree".
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26 484 "But she is subject to the law unless she chooses to change it?" asked Marcus.
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26 487 "Whatever law it is," cried the netted woman, "I change it! I herewith change it!" "How can you change it?" asked Tolnar.
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26 572 The result of this examination, of course, was to produce a network of data which, to a statistical certainty, far beyond the requirements of law, would be unique to a given female.
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27 367 I looked down at the new slave, whom I had decided to call 'Talena', which slave name was also entered on her papers, in the first endorsement, as her first slave name pertinent to these papers, and by means of which she could always be referred to in courts of law as, say, the slave w...
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27 740 "To uphold the law they have jeopardized their careers, they have entered into exile!" "There are such men," I said.
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Book 26. (22 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
7 155 But the primary purpose of the mark, one supposes, is not to be understood naively in such terms as its simple factual enhancement of our beauty, nor even in terms of how it makes us, those who wear it, feel, but rather, more simply, in virtue of more mundane considerations, such as its capaci...
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18 145 Men in this city, whatever city it was, whereas they might have regarded our tunics as "appealing," would certainly not have regarded them as scandalous; if anything, for this city, they might have seemed a bit decorous; indeed, many men in this city 6
19 311 The women of city A, for example, might be led to believe that it was the will of the Priest-Kings that they become the slaves of the men of city B, and the women of city B might be led to believe that it was the will of the Priest-Kings that they become the...
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13 1043 I rather doubted that this token was likely to be interpreted by the prisoners in the same fashion that the judiciary of the city, or the free women of the city, whatever city this might be, had anticipated.
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24 698 I had gathered, from various things I had heard, here and there, that she may once have been an important and powerful personage in some city, perhaps in the city of Tharna, the men of which city it seemed she much feared.
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13 476 Was the coinage of beautiful women so plentiful here, in this city of raiders and warriors, I wondered, that even specimens such as she, such gems as she, who might be the centerpiece of a collection elsewhere, who might be brought to the block at the climax of an auction, labored here...
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13 507 They constitute almost a city beneath a city.
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18 56 And certainly few men will visit an unfamiliar city, on business or otherwise, without comparing the girls of that city with the girls of their own.
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18 64 A common recreation for a tarnsman, for example, particularly when not on duty, not on maneuvers or campaign, is to steal women from a "fair city," that is, one at war with, or on poor terms with, his own city.
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18 69 Spies in one city ascertain, by rumor, and such, who are supposedly the most beautiful free women of a city.
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18 77 Is she desirable enough, beautiful enough, to wear a collar in that city? One would not wish her to reflect poorly on the city, of course.
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18 89 For example, let us suppose that several women of a given city, say, A, are now slaves in a given city, say, B.
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18 95 Similarly, if a fellow captures a woman and carries her out of the city, and enslaves her, he may return with her to the city, she now his unquestioned slave.
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19 127 It was a response to a presumed insult on the part of an administrator of a distant city, something to the effect that those of this city, whose name I did not yet know, were at best cowards and petty thieves, capable of no more than making off with an occasional slave.
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24 22 Perhaps they had moved in stages, by night, coming closer and closer to the city, concealing themselves by day in ravines, now, at this time of day, making their dash toward the city.
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24 217 But what if the tarnsmen of Treve, those in the vicinity, were in pursuit of the first flight? What if it had drawn them away? Could they hear the alarm bars behind them, in the city? Could they be recalled? Could a messenger catch up with them? How much time would it take to do so, an...
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24 238 On the terrace, now discarded, lying among bodies, I saw some of the banners of this city, which had been displayed during the approach to the city.
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24 897 The average man of this world would no more think of stealing a slave within his own city, or a host city, one which has extended the courtesy of its walls, than he would of any other act of illicit and dishonorable brigandage.
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29 741 To be sure, the custom apparently varies from city to city.
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33 8 "None exists in the city, by policy," said the pit master, "just as no map of the city, either, may be prepared".
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12 944 In the pits his word is law for us.
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24 971 Gone would be the protection of the law, of guardsmen, of the shared Home Stone.
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Book 27. (33 results) Prize of Gor

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22 501 It is both historical and contemporary; it is honored in custom and tradition; it is honored in practice; it is pervasive, societally and culturally; it is familiar, recognized and unquestioned; it is ingredient in the law and enforced with all the sanctions of the law.
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26 752 "Now I surely acknowledge that the confiscation was within the letter of the law, given the current sorry state of Ar and the ordinances of the occupation; and I acknowledge further that she has been out of my hands for more than the number of days which, in Merchant law,...
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10 245 To be sure, this varies from city to city.
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11 77 Gorean decor varies from latitude to latitude, from city to city, and home to home, but, in general, it tends to simplicity and openness, this presumably a heritage deriving from some remote tradition.
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17 211 To be sure, chronologies, and such, can differ from city to city.
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21 71 Merchants, dignitaries, soldiers, travelers, artisans, peddlers, tradesmen, citizens, peasants, villagers, townspeople and others were all making their way into the vicinity of the city, some setting up tents and camps, others renting space either within the city, or abou...
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22 527 There are also, differing from city to city, rituals connected with this sort of thing, as when the slave kneels, kisses the cup, and then proffers it to the master, with two hands, arms extended, head down between her arms.
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22 529 These rituals, as noted, differ from city to city.
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25 895 I am only a common girl, and a barbarian! Although these matters differ considerably from city to city, and silver and gold is often weighed by merchants, common ratios in the vicinity of Brundisium at the time of this writing, given the inflation of the unsettled times, ...
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1 23 Too, this is, I conjecture, in my current reality, not altogether unfitting; indeed, it is altogether appropriate, for you see that is what I now am, categorically, explicitly, an object, and not merely in the eyes of the law, but such irremediably, incontrovertibly, in the very realit...
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1 100 The oddity, or anomaly, has to do in its way with law.
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1 101 The state, or a source of law, it seems, can decide whether one has a certain status or not, say, whether one is a citizen or not a citizen, licensed or not licensed, an outlaw or not an outlaw, and such.
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1 103 It has nothing to do, absolutely nothing to do, with the person's awareness or consent, and yet it is true of the person, categorically and absolutely, in all the majesty of the law.
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1 112 And then, by law, she, totally unaware, became something she had not been before, or not in explicit legality.
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1 122 But this reality was later made clear to her, by incontrovertible laws, and deeds, which did not so much confirm the hypothetical strictures of a perhaps hitherto rather speculative law, one extending to a distant world, as replace or supersede them, in an incontrovertibl...
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10 122 But here on Gor, she thought, slavery is explicit, acknowledged, sanctified in tradition and law, and here men are the masters, at least of women such as she.
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10 327 What concern had the law, in all its power and majesty, with such matters? Whether he loved her or he did not, whether she loved him or she did not, did not matter.
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11 161 "Not all," said Mirus, "though it is recommended by Merchant law.
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11 179 Not as his eyes had feasted upon her! Perhaps it was all a joke, or a dream? But then she heard the word, explicitly, and realized that slave was what she was, that that was now her absolute and incontrovertible identity, and that this identity, mercilessly imposed upon her, had behind it the full f...
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11 241 Could it be she? It was she, she realized, it was! It could be no other! It was she! How the collar enhanced her beauty, in a thousand ways, aesthetically and psychologically, and how delicately, unmistakably, and beautifully, too, was her status, condition, and nature made clear, fixedly and absolu...
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12 270 At their back was the full power of custom, tradition and law.
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14 115 But here, on this world, thought Ellen, unlike such a woman, I am a slave not only by nature, and appropriately, but under explicit, recognized law.
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14 119 On this world I am, in the full sense of the law, explicitly and perfectly, slave.
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16 160 Not all masters brand and collar their slaves, but branding and collaring is strongly recommended in Merchant law, and it would be a rare slave girl who was not both branded and collared.
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18 134 In its way, the collar has some of the symbolic aspects of the marriage ring, except, of course, that that ring is a symbol worn by a free woman who is the putative equal of a man, whereas the collar is worn by a slave, and, aside from such things as its identificatory purposes, important in Merchan...
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22 695 She law light reflected in the eyes of one of the beasts, from the uplifted lantern.
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24 485 On Gor, on the other hand, as you have doubtless by now gathered, this omission, or this practice, that of not wearing the veil, is common with, and, indeed, is usually imposed upon, and in many cities by law, slaves.
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26 1313 The free woman is a person; she is a citizen; she has standing before the law; she has a Home Stone; she is noble, lofty, and exalted.
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27 490 Thus, on the symbolic level, where human sexuality luxuriates, thrives and flourishes, and aside from the obvious identificatory conveniences of Merchant law, it was far more than a lovely piece of jewelry; it enhanced her beauty not only aesthetically but symbolically, overwhelmingly,...
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27 2228 Too, society accepts them, and has a place for them and their nature, and reinforces their condition with all the irrefragable power of custom and law.
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27 2652 That is to be expected in a natural society, a society in which a prized and essential ingredient is female slavery, a society in which it is an accepted, respected, unquestioned, honored tradition, an institution sanctioned in both custom and law.
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27 3488 "For the love of Priest-Kings," cried Tersius Major, "give me something to drink, something to eat!" "You have broken the law of Priest-Kings," said Portus Canio.
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30 479 All details of contracts must be arranged, usually with the attention of scribes of the law.
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Book 28. (17 results) Kur of Gor

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80 290 Indeed, as earlier noted, this display, as certain others, is prescribed by Merchant law, which is a general, intermunicipal body of law regularly promulgated by the Merchant caste at the great fairs, and tending to be shared by disunited, often hostile, Gorean communitie...
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1 905 Then, humiliated, lost to honor, broken as a warrior and man, shamed and degraded, mocked, they might do with him as they pleased, perhaps doing away with him in some grisly, amusing fashion on some holiday, or even turning him loose, if they wished, naked in some wilderness, to live as he could wit...
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1 944 When a city falls her women, stripped and chained, are herded to the conquering city, to be sold, or, if kept, to serve and please the victors.
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1 982 Similarly, let us suppose a woman of a given city falls slave and eventually finds herself once more in her native city.
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18 286 When a city falls, it is common for the slaves of the city to submit themselves to the conquerors, kneeling, head down, arms extended, wrists crossed, for binding.
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32 72 She was unfamiliar with the cumbersome intricacies of the usual Robes of Concealment, their arranged foldings, the abundant drapings, and such, which vary from city to city, but she had simulated something akin to them, doubtless with the aid of Grendel, who would have be...
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43 163 "Where is your city?" "I do not need a city," she said.
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1 106 Indeed, they are indispensable in their way; have they not, however unintentionally, secured the foundation of law; have they not, however unbeknownst to themselves, raised from the mire of brutishness, insecurity, and terror the towers of civilization? Surely it is they who must man t...
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1 217 Block measurements, taken presale, are commonly, and in some cities this is required by law, included in a female's sales information.
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1 843 The most common site for such, recommended in Merchant law, is high on the left thigh, under the hip.
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1 1178 Indeed, this is required by Merchant law.
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3 113 But does not the collar enhance the beauty of any woman, the contrast with her softness, its irremovability, and its meaning? It is little wonder, he thought, that Merchant law prescribes that the fair throats of female slaves will know the collar, that their fair throats be clasped wi...
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19 169 "Lord Pyrrhus is not above the law," said the machine.
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19 170 "No one is above the law," speculated Cabot.
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19 172 "One is above the law".
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27 173 "In your former culture," said Cabot, "only males were thought to have value, really, and thus the female was supposed to become a pretend male, with male properties and virtues, a counterfeit male, a facsimile male, and so arose all the nonsense of identity, a farce transparent even to children, bu...
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43 338 It would be a matter of law".
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Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
28 398 What hubris that a slave should dare to don the garments of a free woman, let alone take a place on a Ubara's throne! Would not each tiny particle of her flesh, one after another, have been publicly removed over weeks, or months, on a needle's point? I had seen to it that she was enslaved, in her ow...
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5 801 To be sure, a woman of a city found enslaved within the city is commonly sold out of the city.
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5 781 Those unfamiliar with the ways of Gor might suppose that a foregone consequence of the liberation of a city would be the freeing of certain slaves, say, those of the city who had been impressed into bondage.
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13 55 This is convenient for the receipt of goods coming into the city, and for those being sent from the city.
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17 21 Even if such a woman is recaptured by fellows of her former city she will be brought back to her former city as only another slave, and will be held there as a slave, and a low slave.
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17 22 To be sure, she is likely to be soon sold out of the city, as her very existence in that city is regarded as an embarrassment, and a reminder of the dishonor she has brought to her fellow citizens, her Home Stone, her caste, her clan, and family.
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30 74 Consider the difficulty of scaling the walls of a city, particularly if the city were at sea.
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38 350 I feared, rather, given the coming of winter and its season of storms, that the walls of this city, so to speak, would be shortly breached, that they would be unable to resist the raging blows of green Thassa, the blows of her towering, mountainous hammers, that the city ...
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Book 30. (3 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
1 292 His "horde," as historians would come to speak of it, lay encamped outside her walls, poised to breach her defenses, ready to enter, sack, and burn the city; all seemed lost; but Marlenus, somehow abetted in his return by a figure now thought by many to be mythical, a Tarl of Bristol, ...
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1 340 One of the greatest fortunes amassed in the city was that of a mysterious, shadowy individual supposedly named "Ludmilla," who owned, and, through subordinates, managed, a series of large, ornate slave brothels in the city.
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2 50 I went first to Jad, city of my birth, city of great Lurius, our Ubar, where I had been enlisted and trained, but swords were plentiful there, and I was scorned, for my blade, with helmet and gear, was gone, having been bartered, in part, together with my last tarsk, for ...
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 745 To be sure, much depends on the particular woman, the caste, the city, and sometimes, I understand, even the neighborhood or district within the city, as a Gorean city, as many cities, often contains a medley of subcultures.
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10 853 "A Ubar might companion a Ubara from another city, a coveted city, one of wealth and power, or companion the daughter of another Ubar, of such a city, such things".
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7 18 It is for such a reason that free women, trapped in a burning city, a fallen city, being sacked, will not unoften steal collars from their girls, and fasten them on their own necks, hoping to be taken for slaves, to be spared as slaves.
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8 145 It is understood that the streets in a Gorean city, local bridges, and such, are the responsibility of those in the neighborhood, not of the city or state.
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19 94 For the most part there is little standardization on Gor, and many things differ from city to city.
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20 92 It was not as though I was a free woman, amongst others captured in a city being sacked, and a captor had tied my wrists behind me with his own colored cords, different from those of his fellows, that I might be sorted out appropriately in the temporary slave pens outside the cit...
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20 248 I know of only one city in the Voltai, like a remote tarn's aerie, and that is the bandit city of Treve.
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Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
43 1171 Whereas cities have laws, and most castes have caste codes, there is only one law which is generally respected, and held in common, amongst Gorean municipalities, and that is Merchant law, largely established and codified at the great Sardar Fairs.
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14 278 Many had fallen slave following their flight from the city, females alone and defenseless in the fields, and many had purchased their conduct from the city from escaping mercenaries, at the cost of the collar itself, mercenaries unwilling to be burdened by free women.
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22 33 Even should she manage to return to her own city, or family, she will be scorned, and kept as a slave, and subjected to the greatest cruelties and indignities, for her bondage has stained the honor of her city, or family.
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23 146 It would be like a city at sea, a dangerous, armed city, walled with wood, with sails which might challenge clouds.
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52 752 I knew there were considerable differences in coinages from city to city.
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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30 406 What of slave shelves, public cages, sales racks, sales wagons, exhibition poles, and such? Is not any slave in a coffle or on a rope exhibited? What of leashed slaves on promenade? What of those chained to the throne of a Ubar? Is not any girl fastened to a public slave ring exhibited? What of the ...
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55 118 Indeed, in the frequent wars amongst cities, in the waxings and wanings of victories, in the advancing and receding tides of conflict, it is not unusual that a woman captured from one city and routinely enslaved may on another day, in the fortunes of raiding and war, fall into the hand...
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61 803 "And even then," she said, "when Samos would have put me to the lash, even had me cast bound to the urts in the canals of the city, you did nothing, but requested that Samos deliver me to the city of my Home Stone, Ar, and to my father, Marlenus, as a free woman!" "He did...
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Book 34. (12 results) Plunder of Gor

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40 80 Whereas most Gorean cities share in, and respect, Merchant law, the only common law binding scattered, and often hostile, communities, there are no provisions in such law for securing protections against one party's appropriation of another party's methods, ...
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49 75 Merchant law, instituted at, and revised in, the Sardar Fairs, is the only common body of law on Gor.
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61 550 The awe with which the free woman of one's own city is regarded, reinforced by habit, training, custom, and tradition, does not at all apply to the free women of another city, unless perhaps a close ally, nor, indeed, does it even apply to a woman of one's own city<...
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10 157 This meant little to me at the time, but I would learn that coinages might differ considerably from city to city.
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24 40 The road, rutted and pitted, was better graded as it neared the city, and, later, within the city, the metal-rimmed wheels would rattle over cobble stones.
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26 26 Such men may, for example, pursue a fugitive from city to city with impunity, regardless of caste, warfare, and Home Stone.
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26 155 Do not such slaves dress up a city? Indeed, when visiting dignitaries are about, citizens are encouraged to set their girls, attractively tunicked, wandering about the city, that a suitable impression may be conveyed to the visitors.
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36 82 "Why do you think I ordered you, for three days now, to frequent the central portions of the city, the Central Cylinder, the Plaza of Tarns, the market of Cestias, and such?" "That I might become more familiar with the city," I said.
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52 64 Lady Bina, in any event, as there was no sign of public concern or agitation at her removal from the House of a Hundred Corridors, as exhortations, alarms, proclamations, offers of rewards for her return or information leading to her return, and such, were not being broadcast throughout the ci...
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63 51 The territory under the aegis of a particular city waxes and wanes with the power of the city.
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68 74 He then explained to me that this city, in which was the restaurant, had been long at war, for generations, with another city.
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68 103 "Say," said Kurik, to the slave, "'I, once a free woman, of the high city of —'," and here we omit the name of the city, "'now a slave, serve, as a slave, on my knees, another slave, a barbarian slave'".
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Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

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11 132 There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of the city...
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3 234 The values of Gorean currency, particularly to the annoyance of the caste of merchants, varies considerably from city to city, with respect to weight, to purity of metal, and even denomination.
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11 35 I have never been in a Gorean high city, a tower city, but I understand that the towers of such cities are often joined by graceful, narrow, arching bridges, often high above the street level, bridges which may be easily defended or destroyed in the case of an attack, thi...
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12 64 Much on Gor varies from city to city.
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29 12 Some, misguided youths or itinerant killers, will venture from city to city, from village to village, to seek out one whose reputation they covet and would own.
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41 101 I heard no alarm bars from the city, so I gathered that there was, as yet at least, no general awareness of the raid in the city.
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Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

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63 163 "She was a traitress Ubara, a betrayer of her Home Stone, a subverter of law, an enemy to her own city, a puppet of foes, a duplicitous servant of blood enemies.
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18 156 It is like a city of tents, with its own streets, water tanks and dumps, a city often larger than its host city".
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