"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.
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The city is under martial law".
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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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Indeed, there is a saying on gor, a saying whose origin is lost in the past of this strange planet, that one who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved, and honor is respected in the barbaric codes of gor.
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Those members of the Caste of Assassins, the most hated caste on gor, who had served Pa-Kur, were taken in chains down the Vosk to become galley slaves on the cargo ships that ply gor's oceans.
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"gor," he said, "is the name of this world.
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"You have much to learn of gor," he said.
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As he spoke, my father often referred to the planet gor as the Counter-Earth, taking the name from the writings of the Pythagoreans who had first speculated on the existence of such a body.
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Oddly enough, one of the expressions in the tongue of gor for our sun was Lar-Torvis, which means The Central Fire, another Pythagorean expression, except that it had not been, as I understand it, originally used by the Pythagoreans to refer to the sun but t...
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The more common expression for the sun was Tor-tu-gor, which means Light Upon the Home Stone.
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Theirs, it seems, was the honor of being enshrined as the most ancient gods of gor, and in time of danger a prayer to the Priest-Kings might escape the lips of even the bravest men.
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He said, from what he could learn from the Initiates, who claimed to serve as the intermediaries of Priest-Kings to men, that the planet gor had originally been a satellite of a distant sun, in one of the fantastically remote Blue Galaxies.
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"Surely you know," he laughed, "one must distinguish between the data to be interpreted and the interpretation of the data, and one chooses, normally, the interpretation that preserves as much as possible of the old world view, and, in the thinking of the Earth, there is no place for gor
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"Look," he cried in actual despair, waving his blue-robed arms hopelessly at the messiest chamber I had seen on gor.
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41
Whereas there was a main common tongue on gor, with apparently several related dialects or sublanguages, some of the gorean languages bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the cries of birds and the g...
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52
"You must learn," Torm had said matter-of-factly, "the history and legends of gor, its geography and economics, its social structures and customs, such as the caste system and clan groups, the right of placing the Home Stone, the Places of Sanctuary, when quarter is and is not permitte...
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The ethical teachings of gor, which are independent of the claims and propositions of the Initiates, amount to little more than the Caste Codes—collections of sayings whose origins are lost in antiquity.
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72
On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another o...
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I had learned enough of gor by now to know that one could not always count on the Caste Codes being observed.
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In large outline gor, as would be expected, was not a sphere, but a spheroid.
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Book 2.
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Outlaw of Gor
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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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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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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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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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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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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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55
"Does the law recognize beasts?" asked the woman whose name was Dorna the Proud.
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"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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1
Return to gor Once again, I, Tarl Cabot, strode the green fields of gor.
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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...
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8
Normally the caste colors of gor would be in abundant evidence, enlivening the streets and bridges of the city, a glorious spectacle in gor's bright, clear air.
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I wondered if it too recalled the thunder of the wind, the clash of arms as tarnsmen dueled in flight, the sight of gor's tarn cavalries wheeling in formation to the beat of the tarn drums, or the long, steady, lonely soaring flights we had known together over the green fields of
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And it seemed strange to me that this rebellion, this willingness to pursue the right as they saw it, independently of the will of the Priest-Kings, had come not first from the proud Warriors of gor, nor the Scribes, nor the Builders nor Physicians, nor any of the high castes of the ma...
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Book 3.
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Priest-Kings of Gor
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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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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...
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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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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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152
"Of course," said Sarm, "he broke the law of Priest-Kings".
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153
"What right have you to make the law for him?" I asked.
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It was the law of Priest-Kings.
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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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18
This is also the case, perhaps it should be mentioned, with the first book, Tarnsman of gor, and the present book, Priest-Kings of gor.
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Book 4.
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Nomads of Gor
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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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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...
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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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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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24
I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap...
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52
"How fortunate then," observed Saphrar, "that such a transaction is precluded by law".
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20
The Wagon Peoples claimed the southern prairies of gor, from gleaming Thassa and the mountains of Ta-Thassa to the southern foothills of the Voltai Range itself, that reared in the crust of gor like the backbone of a planet.
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51
They are among the proudest of the peoples of gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute with them the open, windswept plains of their world.
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It was an English name, but such are not unknown on gor, having been passed down, perhaps, for more than a thousand years, the name of an ancestor, perhaps brought to gor by Priest-Kings in what might have been the early Middle Ages of Earth.
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214
One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean...
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35
It might be gilled, like gorean sharks, probably descendants of Earth sharks placed experimentally in Thassa millennia ago by Priest-Kings, or it might have the gurdo, the layered, ventral membrane, shielded by porous plating, of several of the marine predators perhaps native to ...
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Book 5.
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Assassin of Gor
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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, agai...
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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-...
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gorean law, however, does not so regard them.
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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 of Ar but doubtless of <...
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197
"There seems little law now," said Portus.
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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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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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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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170
Those who contract the disease are regarded by law as dead.
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450
"Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the Home Stone?" I gasped.
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456
"As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the Home Stone of Ar".
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472
"If a Ubar does not respect the law of the Home Stone, what man shall?" "None," said I.
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77
For example, though I received the series of injections when first I came to gor many years ago I had been told by Physicians that they might, in my case, have been unnecessary, for I was the child of parents who, though of Earth, had been of gor, and had received the ser...
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70
How seriously the men of gor understand these representations depends doubtless on the man; but even those who, upon reflection, laugh at them, I have found, do generally regard the women of other cities rather differently than they regard their own, thinking of them almost automatical...
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The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is fee...
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Book 6.
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Raiders of Gor
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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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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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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, or other, ...
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121
Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law.
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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.
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Captive of Gor
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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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467
gorean law is on his side, not hers.
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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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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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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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468
Indeed, as an animal, she has no standing whatsoever before the law.
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1
I am Chained Beneath the Moons of gor "Let her be chained under the moons of gor," had said Verna.
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Book 8.
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Hunters of Gor
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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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163
In law, and in the eyes of goreans, Talena was now without family.
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60
In the eyes of goreans, and gorean law, the slave is an animal.
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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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313
Who knew to what heights, in time, might be raised the chair of Bosk? Perhaps, in time, it might stand as high, or higher, than the throne of Ar? And might there not come to be, in time, an alliance of gor's greatest sea power and her greatest land power, and, perhaps, in time, but one...
6
11
750
On gor, for better or for worse, the reality in which a woman, terrified, might find herself is not altogether unlike that of her most feared dreams on Earth, but on gor it is not a dream; it is as real as the steel of slave bracelets and the commanding touch of a master.
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54
To be sure, many men of gor, though this is seldom brought to the attention of the free women of gor, hold similar views with respect to all women, including their own, regarding all women as natural slaves, and maintaining that all women belong in, and are complete, and ...
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281
It meant that she would be the richest and most powerful woman on gor, that armies and navies, and tarn cavalries, could move upon her very word, that the taxes of an empire the wealthiest on gor could be laid at her feet, that the most precious of gems and jewels might b...
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Book 9.
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Marauders of Gor
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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.
6
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".
6
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.
6
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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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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517
On Earth she had taught ancient history and classical languages at a small college on Earth; to many she might then have seemed a rather blue-stocking, forbidding girl; gorean slavers, however, with greater perception perhaps then her fellow Earthlings, had seen her potential; she had ...
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199
The Kurii native to gor, or which had been permitted to survive and settle on gor, would surely not be likely to have this facility.
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70
If Priest-Kings permitted the conquest of gor, perhaps over a generation or two, by Kurii, they would have lost the security of their own base; they would become an island in the midst of a hostile sea; it would then be a matter of time until the end, until adequate weaponry could be s...
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18
412
"Ta-Sardar-gor," said I, "to the Priest-Kings of gor".
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Book 10.
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Tribesmen of Gor
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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, permit...
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762
The collar, by gorean law, canceled the past.
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13
432
On gor they are rescued from the political and sexual deserts of Earth; branded, collared, dressed revealingly, they find themselves for the first time in their lives, though embonded, far more free than they could ever have believed possible on Earth; gone is the ennui, the vacuity; o...
6
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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9
86
"More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari.
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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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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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76
He holds within his territories the right of law and execution.
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34
His will, his word, in the kennel decrees law.
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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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42
The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern...
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5
385
On gor, sooner or later, she would be forced to face this fact; she would be forced to look deeply within herself; to confront herself, perhaps for the first time, with candor, and uncompromising honesty; I wondered if, at that time, seeing herself, truly, she would go mad, or if, bold...
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61
Whereas salt may be obtained from sea water and by burning seaweed, as is sometimes done in Torvaldsland, and there are various districts on gor where salt, solid or in solution, may be obtained, by far the most extensive and richest of known gor's salt deposits are to be...
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Book 11.
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Slave Girl of Gor
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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.
7
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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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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959
If this were true, it was, in gorean law, no slander.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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4
952
Among slave girls, however, ear piercing, inflicted upon them by the will of their masters, is becoming widespread on gor; one might say it is gaining considerable popularity among masters, which accounts, of course, for its growing frequency in the female slave population of the plane...
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234
Then I had been brought to gor, and had discovered that I was beautiful, truly beautiful, and that such as I might well belong to glorious, male beasts who would relish and treasure us, and master us! Was I a pleasure slave? Could I be a pleasure slave? I had been an excellent student ...
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13
82
The physicians of gor, it seemed, had addressed themselves to the conquest of what had hitherto been a universal disease, called on gor the drying and withering disease, called on Earth, aging.
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15
309
"Free me, Mistress," I begged, "free me!" "Do you truly think," she asked, "that you were brought to gor to be freed and returned to Earth?" "I do not know why I was brought to gor," I said.
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356
The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for an animal, wo...
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27
358
This is as it should be, and, shortly after coming to gor, this is brought home to her, clearly; on gor she finds herself restored to the antique rights of her biological heritage, and meaning; she learns complementarity; she learns about dominance and submission, and tha...
6
Book 12.
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Beasts of Gor
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486
gorean law, of course, is complex and latitudinous on these matters.
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75
It is here that Merchant law is drafted and stabilized.
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2
265
"I do not want to be a woman on gor! Anything but a woman on gor!" I shrugged.
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"Not unlike Tor-tu-gor, or Sol," I said, "the common star of Earth and gor".
6
Book 13.
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Explorers of Gor
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341
In the eyes of gorean law you are an animal.
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259
"Technically," I said, "in the eyes of gorean law you are not an object but an animal".
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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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88
Why are the men of gor different from those of Earth? Is it because poisoned minds were not brought to gor? Is it that it is only a matter of chance, that on Earth and not gor, due to a chance dynamic or a particular situation, the consequences of which were...
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88
If you would remain on gor, then remain on gor, but then as a woman on gor, subject to gorean ways.
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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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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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44
Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.
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Too, it is in accord with Merchant law.
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"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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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.
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Fighting Slave of Gor
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37
It is said on gor that only slaves, outlaws and Priest-Kings, rumored to be the rulers of gor, reputed to live in the remote Sardar Mountains, are without caste.
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75
You are not yet a legal slave, a slave under law.
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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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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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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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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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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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296
"There is a breakdown of law and order".
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372
The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant law.
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157
Her position is sanctioned in law.
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"Not gorean honor—not in you—not the honor of gor!" "Yes," said I, "that of gor".
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Book 15.
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Rogue of Gor
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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...
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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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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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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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153
What true man, in his vitality, does not want a beautiful woman as a slave? Two major differences between the men of Earth and the men of gor are, first, that the men of gor are perfectly straightforward and open about this and, secondly, that such women may normally be p...
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105
This was gor, gor! Here the equations of dominance and submission were not denied.
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Book 16.
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Guardsman of Gor
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161
This was in full accord with gorean law.
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Let it be gone! This is gor! gor! What was she to you, that tart I once was, dear Master, that you should have deferred to her? Did you never once point to the floor at your feet, and tell her to kneel? Why not? What mistakes the men of Earth make with the women of Earth!...
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315
But the former, the slave girl, is owned with all the power and authority of law.
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793
"It is against the law," she said.
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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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1684
She was shielded by law.
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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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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.
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Savages of Gor
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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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671
"Merchant law," I said, "is the only law common to many gorean cities".
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357
It is a felony in gorean law to forge or falsify such papers.
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1286
"Due process of law, as you may see," said Kog, "was strictly observed".
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1302
"All law exists to serve the interests of the dominant powers," said Kog.
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1305
law which is not a weapon and a wall is madness".
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61
A law, imposed on white men entering their lands by red savages, had been violated.
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669
"And such things, like the brand, are recommended by Merchant law".
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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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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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174
"Surely we have broken no law," I said.
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176
"I do not think they need more law than that".
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181
"Surely there is no law to the effect that you should not be freed," I said.
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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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186
"If there were such a law," asked the youth, "would you have broken it?" "Yes," I said.
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375
Too, the men of gor were human, certainly derived from Earth stock, brought perhaps long ago to this world, in the Voyages of Acquisition, when Priest-Kings, the golden lords of gor, were still young, and curious, about the universe and its vast and mysterious contents.
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Book 18.
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Blood Brothers of Gor
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313
In gorean law allegiances to a Home Stone, and not physical structures and locations, tend to define communities.
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130
The collar is recommended, of course, and branding, by Merchant law, for obvious reasons.
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184
It is almost like a law of nature.
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591
"It is against the law," I said.
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655
You could be returned to a master as such in a court of law.
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44
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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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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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57
On the other hand, before one is moved to pity or contempt, it should be recognized that most goreans, for example, have access to a complex oral tradition, abetted by singers, story tellers, and such, and, too, that literacy is not as needed on gor, nor is it as prized o...
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Book 19.
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Kajira of Gor
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337
"It is in accord with the recommendations of merchant law".
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338
"Merchant law?" I asked.
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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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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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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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345
It was a strong recommendation of Merchant law that slaves be marked.
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38
In some cities it is against the law for them to do so.
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214
In known gor, it was rivaled only by Turia, in gor's southern hemisphere.
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"Some of us," said Menicius, "are familiar with the rumors, the frightening rumors, that there are forces on gor, and elsewhere, who would challenge the power of the Priest-Kings themselves, rulers of gor from time immemorial".
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But the men of gor, if only the unwitting beneficiaries of an historical accident, were never confused and tricked out of their birthright of health; or, I wondered, was it only a statistical anomaly, a rare sort of historical accident, or misadventure, or wrong turning, that some cult...
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Perhaps the most obvious difference between the common sexuality of Earth and that of gor is that on gor sexuality is fully animal and fully human, magnificently animal and human.
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Book 20.
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Players of Gor
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The law is clear on this.
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This is in accord with the prescriptions of merchant law.
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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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There was no law against two traveling it.
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"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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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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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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443
"I shall have the law on you for this!" cried Rowena.
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444
"Slaves have no standing before the law," said Chino.
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297
"Martial law exists," said Belnar.
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I did not know what true men were until I came to gor, and was put in a collar! Here I am disciplined and trained, here I am owned and fulfilled! Here I am happy! I pity even my free sisters of gor, who are so far above me, for they cannot know the overwhelming joys and f...
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Book 21.
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Mercenaries of Gor
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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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1419
In gorean thought, and, indeed, gorean law is explicit on this, what is owned is the whole slave.
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1007
There was no reason as far as I could tell that the men of gor, if acculturated similarly to those of Earth, if subjected to the same debilitating indoctrinations, the same negativistic educations, the same unnatural engineerings, the same calculated underminings of manhood, the same i...
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55
"The city is under martial law," I said.
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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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195
He may even have been a scribe of the law.
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162
"I am not a scribe of the law," he said.
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84
"But it is also against the law".
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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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Any such law is automatically null and void.
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2271
"Such does not prove, of course," I said, "that gor is the ideal world, but it does indicate that gor possesses at least one feature of the ideal world".
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Book 22.
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Dancer of Gor
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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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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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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 o...
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101
This point in gorean law is apparently motivated by the consideration that a slave always have some master.
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388
"Such things are prescribed by merchant law," he said.
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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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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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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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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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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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19
His work chains, however, were politically neutral, understood under merchant law as hirable instruments.
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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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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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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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218
Perhaps what is done in slave dance on gor would count as "exotic dance" on Earth, but, if we are thinking of the actual kinds of dances performed, then there is much in slave dance, for example, story dances, which are seldom, if ever, included in "exotic dance" on Earth, and there ar...
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76
I felt that my intelligence was small compared to that of most gorean males, but I did not feel intellectually inferior, at least generally, to the women I had met on gor, either girls from Earth, such as Gloria and Clarissa, who had been with me at Market of Semris, or t...
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Book 23.
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Renegades of Gor
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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 ...
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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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9
214
The law, the culture, and such, are not set up to permit it.
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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 specified interval, as conferri...
6
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.
6
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.
6
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.
6
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...
6
24
974
I was once, in the eyes of the law, a free woman".
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21
829
One common difference between rape on Earth and rape on gor is that rape on Earth is usually over with quickly, and is unlikely to be succeeded by social and legal consequences to the enjoyed woman, whereas rape on gor may prove to be, and often is, a prelude to enslaveme...
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Book 24.
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Vagabonds of Gor
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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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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<...
6
12
263
That is because they, though legally free, within the strict technicalities of the law, are yet slaves.
6
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.
6
19
160
Yet, I supposed, that such an absurdity, such an oversight of law, and civilization, was not irremediable.
6
19
285
Against such fraud, needless to say, the law provides redress.
6
19
337
"It is also contrary to the laws of most cities," I said, "and to merchant law, as well".
6
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...
6
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.
6
26
190
Out of the Slave Wars grew much of the merchant law pertaining to slaves.
6
28
645
"In this situation," I said, "in law, as well as in fact".
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21
"It is against the law," said the fellow.
6
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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45
He was, I suspected, a scribe of the law.
6
45
110
Accordingly, many Earth girls who may have regarded themselves as quite plain, quite ordinary, in all respects, of no great interest or importance, and so on, discover that they are often regarded on gor, at least at first, as being colorful and foreign, unusual and interesting, differ...
6
Book 25.
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Magicians of Gor
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633
Merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on gor.
7
22
634
Such things do exist in municipal law on gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local.
7
14
263
The testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture in gorean law courts.
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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.
6
8
846
"It is against the law," he said.
6
8
847
"Not our law," I said.
6
9
95
"Are you a legal slave, my child?" asked one of the counselors, a scribe of the law.
6
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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.
6
15
173
I supposed that the taverners must be much put out by the curfew law, and would have lost much business.
6
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.
6
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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.
6
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...
6
22
227
"It is the law! We of Ar may not carry weapons".
6
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477
"The principle here, I gather," said Marcus, "is that the Ubara is above the law".
6
26
478
"The law in question is a serious one," said Tolnar.
6
26
482
"I am Ubara!" "The Ubara is above the law?" asked Marcus, who had an interest in such things.
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483
"In a sense, yes," said Tolnar, "the sense in which she can change the law by decree".
6
26
484
"But she is subject to the law unless she chooses to change it?" asked Marcus.
6
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487
"Whatever law it is," cried the netted woman, "I change it! I herewith change it!" "How can you change it?" asked Tolnar.
6
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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...
6
27
740
"To uphold the law they have jeopardized their careers, they have entered into exile!" "There are such men," I said.
6
19
241
You are now of gor, and only of gor".
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21
495
"She has been said to be the most beautiful woman on gor," I said, "but there are thousands upon thousands of incredibly beautiful women on gor, perhaps millions, most of whom are in collars where they belong".
6
22
447
So, many women, it seems, do not know how beautiful they actually are, before coming to gor, and some, it seems, before coming to gor, think they are more beautiful than they actually are.
6
24
211
Earth has ill prepared many of the lovely slaves brought to gor for the men of gor.
6
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458
Most women, of course, including most Earth females brought to gor as slaves, for that is the usual reason for which they are brought to gor, do not need anything of this sort.
6
Book 26.
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Witness of Gor
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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 capacity to ...
6
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.
6
8
294
I know now, of course, as I did not earlier, that there are many free women on gor, and, indeed, that most women on gor are free.
6
46
115
"I have been collared here, and made a slave here! Surely now I am of gor! How could I be more of gor, than as a gorean slave girl, hoping like other gorean slave girls to be found pleasing by her master?" "You do have a beautiful face," he sai...
6
Book 27.
(30 results)
Prize of Gor
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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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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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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 t...
7
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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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...
7
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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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"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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100
The oddity, or anomaly, has to do in its way with law.
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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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112
And then, by law, she, totally unaware, became something she had not been before, or not in explicit legality.
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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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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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161
"Not all," said Mirus, "though it is recommended by Merchant law.
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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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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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119
On this world I am, in the full sense of the law, explicitly and perfectly, slave.
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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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695
She law light reflected in the eyes of one of the beasts, from the uplifted lantern.
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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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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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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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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.
6
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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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479
All details of contracts must be arranged, usually with the attention of scribes of the law.
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24
513
Such men would not rage in frustration on gor; they would not starve on gor; the civilization in its foresight, understanding, wisdom and benevolence had provided such as she for their service, satisfaction, and delectation.
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597
Certainly some unusually beautiful Earth woman, all unaware of such matters, and, like others, scouted without her least knowledge or suspicion, might find, upon her arrival on gor, after her initial terror and consternation, discovering herself stripped and chained, a slave, that a ra...
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26
1743
Perhaps an Ahn later, shortly before the first rays of Tor-tu-gor, Light-Upon-the-Home-Stone, the common star of Earth and gor, began to glimmer in the east, rising there as it does on Earth, they rose together, he suddenly to his feet, casting the blanket aside, she quic...
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27
2187
The sun was now dipping into the grasslands in the west, as the sun, Tor-tu-gor, Light-Upon-the-Home-Stone, the common star of gor and Earth, now took its rest after its diurnal labors, as the first knowledge would have it, or, as the second knowledge would have it, as th...
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Book 28.
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Kur of Gor
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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, gor...
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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...
6
1
217
Block measurements, taken presale, are commonly, and in some cities this is required by law, included in a female's sales information.
6
1
843
The most common site for such, recommended in Merchant law, is high on the left thigh, under the hip.
6
1
1178
Indeed, this is required by Merchant law.
6
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...
6
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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338
It would be a matter of law".
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146
And it is a matter not simply of time and tradition, you must understand, but of mores, customs, practices, an ethos, and abundant and tested law".
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"How is she a slave?" "She fell afoul of a law, one of her own father's laws, that she who couches with, or readies herself to couch with, a slave, becomes the slave of the slave's master, the couching slave in this case, whom I had purchased in order to compromise and en...
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79
574
Afterwards, as had been my intent, I freed him, but this, in accord with the law and my plan, left her my slave.
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80
279
To be sure, Merchant law, in any case, prescribes the collar, the brand, distinctive garmenture, and such.
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80
291
Even were it not for such law, of course, practical considerations would dictate some obvious ways of marking the distinction between the female slave and the free woman.
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3
149
"What could I do on gor? What could I be on gor?" Cabot smiled.
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138
"To destroy Priest-Kings and seize gor?" "To free gor," said Agamemnon.
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182
On gor I will be Ubara!" "On gor," said Cabot, "beauty is found more often on the chain of taverners than on the thrones of states".
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15
It was equivalent to more than he would be likely to earn in more than two revolutions of the steel worlds about Tor-tu-gor, or Sol, the common star of Earth, gor, the steel worlds, and a wheel of worlds, satellites, fragments, and debris.
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390
"Go to gor, yes," said a Kur, "but later, and only in war, to win her, and claim her, for the folk!" "Stay with us, and help us to conquer gor," said another.
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34
"Earth-girl slaves," said Peisistratus, "are normally sedated on Earth, brought to collection points, stored in such capsules for the journey to gor, disembarked unconscious on gor, and then brought unconscious to the pens.
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Book 29.
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Swordsmen of Gor
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64
The best they might do, given the time of day and the location of Tor-tu-gor, Light-Upon-the-Home-Stone, the common star of gor and Earth, would be to reach the coast, but, even so, would the hut of Pertinax lie to the north or south? And, of course, an isolated woman, or...
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4
203
"It is an explicit recommendation of Merchant law".
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139
I had little love for Priest-Kings, but theirs was the law and the rod which held in check the inventive and indiscreet aggressions of humans on this, their world.
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437
The master may have many slaves, but the slave may, by law, have but one master, even if it be the state, or some corporate entity.
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19
279
"It is the law of Lord Nishida".
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278
The relationship of female slave and male master, though one established, sanctioned, and enforced by law, is founded obviously on one common in nature, that of, so to speak, the conquered, possessed female and the conquering, possessing male.
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256
The former Ubara had been embonded in accord with the couching law of Marlenus of Ar, any free woman who couches with, or prepares to couch with, a male slave, becomes herself a slave, and the property of the male slave's master.
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26
293
Possession, particularly after a lengthy interval, is often regarded as decisive, by praetors, archons, magistrates, scribes of the law, and such.
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294
What is of most importance to the law is not so much that a particular individual owns a slave as that she is owned by someone, that she is absolutely and perfectly owned.
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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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47
Later, on a far world, far beyond the Prison Moon, a Steel World, as there were slavers there, and her attractions warranted this, she had been simply taken in hand, and branded and collared, routinely so, they not even understanding at that time that she was already a slave, not that that would hav...
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43
Would you not want gor, as well?" "Given the fall of Agamemnon," she said, "gor has nothing to fear".
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299
"You are on gor, girl," I said, "and on gor you will remain".
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187
"Why else," I asked, "would she, of all others, have chosen you to accompany her to gor, to complete her role on gor, that of seeming to be her master?" "She brought me with her to have a manipulable weakling," he said, "one to despise, one to do her bidding, unquestionin...
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22
169
Such awakenings, too, may characterize Earth girls brought to gor for the markets, as they are commonly sedated in tiered slave capsules for the journey from Earth to gor.
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23
80
There are rice fields on gor, in the vicinity of Bazi, famed for its teas, but rice is not as familiar on gor as the grain, sa-tarna.
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25
194
I did not suppose that the world ended a bit beyond the waters of Tyros and Cos, or beyond the Farther Islands, even far beyond them, that at some point, some brink, Thassa plunged a thousand pasangs downward, like a planetary waterfall, only to be lifted by fiery Tor-tu-gor, Light Upo...
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159
Earth males, sometimes brought to gor, tended to be startled and amazed at the abundance and beauty of female slaves on gor.
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136
I saw then that he wished, or seemed to wish, to see the females native to gor in one way, and those native to Earth in another way, those of gor as natural slaves, fit for the collar, ideally to be embonded, and those of Earth not, despite their absolute identity as huma...
6
Book 30.
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Mariners of Gor
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392
She was now without a Home Stone, a fugitive, no longer protected by law.
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3
1265
I realized that I was now, in the eyes of the law, no longer the Lady Flavia but an animal that might be named as the free might please.
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135
The sword here did not seem to be a law unto itself, or at least his sword.
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5
242
"The animosity borne to me by your Rutilius of Ar has nothing to do with Cos and Ar, with politics or war, with defense or security, nor with justice or law.
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503
Indeed, as you know, in a court of law, the testimony of slaves is commonly taken under torture.
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54
The face of the slave, by law, must be naked.
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34
79
"In my view, and in that of most, and certainly in the eyes of the law, your status is clear".
6
36
177
In a couple of places on a platform, there was a harbor praetor, now indoors, in the warehouse, on his curule chair, as opposed to on the docks themselves, their usual station, who might clarify the Merchant law, interpret it, adjudicate disputes, and make rulings.
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115
It is hard to be in a man's collar and, after a time, not come to be his slave, not merely in law, but in heart.
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34
232
I had spoken to her for many Ahn, telling her of gor, for what is a paga girl likely to learn of gor, serving paga, serving pleasure, in an alcove? And she, in her turn, often nude at the slave ring, or before me, stripped, kneeling, hands braceleted behind her, had told ...
6
Book 31.
(24 results)
Conspirators of Gor
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150
And such relationships on gor were institutionalized, fixed in law! I was collared! I sensed that I belonged on the block, stripped, before such men, who might, fittingly, purchase me as an object, or toy.
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782
Thus, here, the law, in all its power and rigor, in all its weight and majesty, would be used not for me but against me, for example, to hunt me down and return me to a master.
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191
Supposedly the Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they might be, concerned to protect the two worlds of Tor-tu-gor, in particular, gor, a generally undamaged world, and their own, would allow this alliance, provided their weapon and technology laws were respe...
7
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77
Had he not behaved as I might have expected a man not of gor, but of Earth, cunning, self-seeking, and devoid of honor, to behave? Of gor, was he not more of Earth than gor? I looked up, as I heard a ripple of awareness about me.
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20
Whereas Kurii are primarily interested in gor, as a fresh, unspoiled world, the resources of Earth, and its relative proximity to the orbit of gor, would make it a dangerous staging area for attacks on gor.
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50
The collar may be viewed as a simple contrivance, a device prescribed by Merchant law, identifying a slave and, if the collar is engraved, often her master.
6
8
387
Had I been capable of wondering, on Earth, if I were a slave, a rightful slave, a slave by nature? How foolish now seemed such abstract, idle ruminations! It was now confirmed upon me, that I, the former Allison Ashton-Baker, was a slave, and not only by law, however absolute that lega...
6
8
780
She was a mere barbarian, a scion of a primitive culture, and I was a civilized woman of Earth, of the upper classes, young, beautiful, educated, intelligent, sensitive, well-bred, refined, now somehow inexplicably entrapped in a barbarian world, a world where I was denied the protection of the <...
6
8
1289
In that tiny world her word would be law.
6
8
1480
Men were still the masters, but now not subtly, almost invisibly, as on Earth, but now openly, visibly, in the full force of law.
6
10
163
I wanted to be his, his property, a helpless object, goods, possessed by him, in all the fullness of law, in all the fullness of culture, in all the fullness of nature.
6
17
236
That is clear in law.
6
17
496
They make us theirs, in reality, and law.
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18
700
"That goes far beyond law," I said.
6
18
702
"It is in law, as well, that the whole slave is owned".
6
26
212
"It is the law," said Astrinax.
6
26
218
That is the law".
6
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25
I did know that testimony from a slave, at least in a court of law, is commonly taken under torture.
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15
The law of gravity may be objectionable, but with what is it to be replaced? In any event, whatever might be the cause, most insurrections fail, and those that succeed seldom do more than restore the past with new bodies and different labels.
6
10
1245
"What," he asked, "is it doing on gor, and what, too, is the Lady Bina doing on gor?" "I do not know," I said.
6
16
148
What had been done, I wondered, to the men of my former world? How superior to me, in so many ways, were these brutes of gor! How slave I felt before them! Were such as I not fittingly owned by such as they, as the females of so many species of my former world were, in effect, owned by...
6
17
189
In the plans of some Kurii, it had been hoped that an alliance might be formed between themselves and the humans of gor, that the surface of gor might be shared, putatively in peace, for a time.
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17
190
Supposedly this would be acceptable to those who were the guardians of two worlds, my world, called Earth in my native language, and gor, the Priest-Kings of gor, a mysterious set of beings regarded with great awe, both by humans and Kurii.
6
52
424
I had sensed, on Earth, that I should be the slave of men such as those of gor, but I had not anticipated my transposition to gor, and my marketing.
6
Book 32.
(14 results)
Smugglers of Gor
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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 Fa...
7
3
37
That is prescribed in Merchant law.
6
7
285
It is said they own councils and sway law, that their gold hides and whispers behind thrones, that cities heed their words, that Ubars are often in their debt.
6
9
239
Custom and tradition, and sometimes law, are involved in these matters.
6
9
240
The free woman may dress to please herself, but, too, it seems she is well advised to please herself by conforming, and strictly, to a variety of canons, canons of taste, custom, convention, and sometimes of law.
6
22
149
"She knew the law," I said.
6
23
127
But Laura could run! She could flee! I was not such a fool as to suppose I was not now a slave, for in the perfection of the law it was so, but I could run.
6
29
164
Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls.
6
43
1172
According to Merchant law an unclaimed slave, one legally subject to claimancy, may be claimed, and then is the property of the claimant.
6
46
54
Her nature, condition, and status are unquestioned in custom and institutionalized in law.
6
46
115
An exception is when her testimony is to be taken in a court of law.
6
48
27
Here it was so not only in the aching, longing reality of the heart, desiring to belong to and serve a master, but in the full, implacable reality of fact, truth, and law.
6
52
783
You should have been left to pine and languish in your shallow, tepid world, left, if anything, to the timid, polite, fumbling attentions of psychologically emasculated pseudomales, conditioned from infancy to disown their own nature, and deny their own blood, the creatures of a pathological world w...
6
52
90
"Masters!" Tor-tu-gor, Light-Upon-the- Home-Stone, the common star of two worlds, Earth and gor, was rising.
6
Book 33.
(15 results)
Rebels of Gor
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Quote
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13
237
"Such things, identifications in their way, are in accord with Merchant law," I said.
6
13
256
law returned, in the form of the red sword.
6
20
78
"Too, that location is commonly recommended in Merchant law, on the continent".
6
27
53
Such a practice is not likely to elevate respect for the law".
6
29
406
"On the continent," I said, "it is prescribed by Merchant law".
6
30
70
"Fortunately for us," had said Tajima, "for times and roads are dangerous, and the protection of the great lord's law is welcome".
6
31
226
There is no law without the bow and glaive".
6
46
22
It is prescribed by Merchant law.
6
46
438
It is prescribed, as indicated earlier, by Merchant law.
6
46
449
"The peasant Eito," I said, "though seemingly well to do, and presumably peaceful and law-abiding, respectful of authority, and such, was clearly pleased at the slaying of the warrior, Izo.
6
47
169
It has been used both in courts of law as a procedure for deciding guilt or innocence, and, more commonly, as an amusing manner of execution, in which the naive subject tortures himself into hoping that he may survive.
6
58
238
Were these not independent, powerful, sovereign species, under no shared law, subject to no common sovereign, capable of imposing its will, but rather stood opposite one another in a state of nature, rather as two larls might face one another, snarling, contesting territory.
6
58
239
And who would presume to give law to the savage larl? She who had been the Lady Kameko was outside, in the corridor, kneeling, bent over, bound.
6
60
407
We need law, time to tend our fields, leaders, the protection of the mighty".
6
1
485
Miss Wentworth, and her subordinate, Gregory White, both English speakers, were brought to gor and trained in the language and customs of gor.
6
Book 34.
(20 results)
Plunder of Gor
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Quote
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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 par...
7
49
75
Merchant law, instituted at, and revised in, the Sardar Fairs, is the only common body of law on gor.
7
26
23
Two further aspects of the gorean way might also be considered, first, the suspicion and hostility obtaining amongst diverse polities, which militates against cooperation and assistance, and the limits of gorean law, even within a polity, as gor
7
30
243
In gorean law the slave is an animal.
7
46
66
"And on other worlds, of prowling steel, as well," said the voice from the box, "and on gor, too, green gor, gor of flowing grass and bright skies, secretly ensconced, both high ones and humans.
6
8
244
"Are they not against the law?" he asked.
6
10
278
Merchant law recommends that female slaves be kept in their collars.
6
15
162
"By law, heavy drayage is confined to the hours of darkness".
6
20
95
Would she not be punished for that? The law!" "That is no slave," whispered Lita.
6
26
16
Similarly there is no international law.
6
26
17
law, for most practical purposes, reaches no further than the swords of a given polity.
6
37
157
On the other hand, in the law of Ar, and several other cities, the free woman who pleasures herself with a male slave risks her own enslavement, and becoming the property of the slave's master.
6
48
151
"In heart," she said, "but not in law.
6
61
303
But how had she dared to speak? Did she not know she had been cautioned to silence? And how dared she use the expression 'my master' to him, when she belonged to another, to Decius Albus? How tragic can be the lot of a helpless slave! In her heart she was the slave of Drusus Andronicus, but, in the ...
6
69
71
It was true, in full law.
6
69
104
You know that much from Merchant law.
6
13
100
How helpless we were on gor! How much here, on gor, were we at the mercy of men, our masters! How cool and superior to us were the exalted, refined, proud, serene, aloof free women! How they despised us for our needs! But did they not know we were collared? Would they be ...
6
17
36
But why should I not? Was I not collared? Was the band of light steel not locked on my neck? Then I recalled that though I was not natively of gor, I was surely now of gor, truly and wholly, for I was a gorean kajira.
6
34
79
From whence did they think came the humans of gor, and their own ancestors, if not from the precincts of Earth at one time or another! And what of some gorean beauties, slave-clad and in their collars, to whom they might point as excellent examples of their claim, the sup...
6
43
79
If you were she, would you not have hurried to gor?" "How is it that she was brought to gor?" "By my request, for her sake, to Lord Arcesilaus, whom I once served in a time of dark troubles".
6
Book 35.
(13 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; I am...
7
1
188
Merchant law requires that such as you be collared".
6
1
304
Many other things, of course, keep us as we are, for example, markets and economics, law and custom.
6
6
59
"How then," asked a man, "could there be honor, order, civility, trust, respect, law, harmony, courage, and fellowship?" "I do not know," said another.
6
24
56
There might be tangles of law.
6
32
17
I was sure the tavern's legal claim to me would be upheld by the scribes of the law.
6
33
503
Without it, how could justice be done and wrongs righted? Where law fails and judges err, what but the blade and quarrel can speak? Let insult be answered and slander avenged.
6
34
50
The matter is clear in the law".
6
38
68
Convention, education, culture, and law, seemingly the very air one breathed, from the cradle on, was engineered to demasculinize men, to make them fear their nature, to betray their blood, to suspect and be ashamed of their most natural interests, desires, impulses, and urges.
6
47
19
You are a slave, by nature, and now by law".
6
6
89
How I had gloried in the exercise of such vain, petty powers, attracting and then dismissing and humiliating the weaklings of Earth, so little of the man in them, so little of the master! And now I was a slave on gor! I had little doubt but what the men of gor would know ...
6
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21
gor is gor, and a slave is a slave.
6
11
252
She was also said to be the most beautiful woman on gor, but I am sure this appellation is one shared by dozens of daughters of Ubars and Administrators in dozens of cities throughout gor.
6
Book 36.
(18 results)
Avengers of Gor
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1
163
"Only those who recognized the advantages and power of ignoring the law".
6
1
174
One wishes, of course, to obey the law.
6
19
173
We knew that the bow had been prohibited to the Peasantry of the islands by Cosian law.
6
19
176
Certainly he was aware of the law, and doubtless more so than we.
6
19
192
"The laws are the laws of Cos, but the enforcers of the law need not be Cosians".
6
20
35
"Deliver him to the law!" "Hear me, oh my caste brothers!" called Aktis.
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68
Impose martial law.
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In some cities it is against the law to deface a scroll or damage a musical instrument.
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Already, today, I have been a pastry cook, a Ubar, a shrewd scribe of the law, a befuddled metal worker, and a sly, oily fellow soliciting patronage for a paga tavern".
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"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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"What need is there of a trial?" "Perhaps," I said, "that vengeance be decked in the colors of law".
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"The Ubar makes law," said Thurnock.
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"He is thus above the law".
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"Do you take the supremacy of law to be a myth?" I asked.
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"Who makes the law?" said Thurnock.
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An Anomaly is Noted, a Day from Daphna "Ho," called down the lookout, from the ringed platform near the top of the single mast, "land, island, tiny, four points Ror!" Whereas I, in the interests of intelligibility, have often had recourse to directions apt to my native world, Earth directions, appl...
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Though she had not been long on gor, she, highly intelligent as are most Earth females brought to gor as slaves, was already well aware of what she might and might not do, what she might and might not be permitted.
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I looked to the sun, Sol, Tor-tu-gor, the common star of Earth and gor, of dozens of orbiting bodies, from massive to miniscule.