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Book 1. (8 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 143 There were only three statuses conceivable to the Gorean mind outside of the caste system: slave, outlaw, and priest-king.
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2 192 My father then explained to me something of the legends of the priest-kings, and I gathered that they seemed to be true to this degree at least—that the priest-kings could destroy or control whatever they wished, that they were, in effec...
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13 67 The disease is named that because it is regarded as being holy to the priest-kings, and those who suffer from it are regarded as consecrated to the priest-kings.
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20 26 There, I suppose to this day, in that inhospitable vastness, he reigns; in the scarlet mountains of the Voltai, Marlenus still rules, a larl among men, an outlaw king, to his followers always the Ubar of Ubars.
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15 119 The other man, a gigantic man, wore the robes of one of the Afflicted, but wore them as a king might.
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2 131 "Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.
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8 14 The city is under martial law".
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14 34 Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution ...
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Book 2. (21 results) Outlaw of Gor

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5 27 The thought struck me that I, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba, a mortal, here in the night on this road, might be looking upon the face of a priest-king.
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5 38 "Are you," I asked, "a priest-king?" "No," he said.
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5 122 It was said no man had returned alive from those mountains, that no man had looked upon a priest-king and lived.
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12 81 Had it been suggested to a poet that he had been inspired by a priest-king the fellow would have been scandalized.
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12 82 "I, So-and-So of Such-and-Such a City, made this song," he would say, "not a priest-king".
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5 43 It was common, of course, for Initiates to claim to speak for the priest-kings; indeed, it was presumably the calling of their caste to interpret the will of the priest-kings to men.
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5 65 "Did I not serve the priest-kings," I asked, "at the siege of Ar?" "The priest-kings used you for their ends, as it pleased them to do".
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5 71 Was it on my account that a city had perished? Was it I who had brought disaster to its people, to my father, to my friends and Talena? Had I been too foolish to understand that I was nothing before the power of the priest-kings? Was I now to wander the forlorn roads and ...
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19 153 It is said that as we are to the amoeba and the paramecium so are the priest-kings to us, that the highest and most lyric flights of our intellect are, when compared to the thought of the priest-kings, but the chemical tropisms of the unicellul...
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20 92 What of the interminable prayers of the Initiates, the sacrifices, the observances, the rituals, the innumerable shrines, altars and temples to the priest-kings? Could it be that the smoke of the burning sacrifices, the fragrance of the incense, the mumblings of the Initi...
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26 107 But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and towers, a city frow...
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26 120 Could priest-kings, with their knowledge and power, have need of such a man? But priest-kings need nothing from men, and once more my thoughts grow foolish.
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3 83 Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious peddler often becomes, in the place of his own Home Sto...
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1 2 He was an instructor in English history and I, intending to work for some three years to save money toward law school, had accepted an appointment as an instructor in physical education, a field which, to my annoyance, Cabot never convinced himself belonged in the curriculum of an educ...
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1 35 By that time I had long ago saved the money I needed for law school and had not taught for three years.
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1 36 Indeed, I was then completing my studies at the school of law associated with one of New York's best-known private universities.
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1 188 Later, following another examination, I was admitted to the bar in New York State, and I entered one of the immense law offices in the city, hoping to obtain eventually enough experience and capital to open a small practice of my own.
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11 54 "Does the law of Tharna not give it the right to speak, Dorna the Proud, Second in Tharna?" asked the Tatrix, whose voice, too, was imperious and cold, yet pleased me more than the tones of she who wore the silver mask.
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11 55 "Does the law recognize beasts?" asked the woman whose name was Dorna the Proud.
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21 269 On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not being persons before the law, do not have names.
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26 32 "And add to the golden tarn disks," she had exclaimed, "tarn disks of silver to be formed from the masks of our women, for henceforth in Tharna no woman may wear a mask of either gold or silver, not even though she be Tatrix of Tharna herself!" And as she had spoken, according to the customs of Thar...
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Book 3. (258 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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31 223 I wondered if the hairs of the Golden Beetle, heavy with the droplets of that narcotic exudate, offered adequate recompense to a priest-king for the ascetic millennia in which he might have pursued the mysteries of science, if they provided an acceptable culmination to on...
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17 152 "Of course," said Sarm, "he broke the law of priest-kings".
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25 48 It was the law of priest-kings.
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2 19 Sometimes these individuals are young idealists, rebels and champions of lost causes, who wish to protest to priest-kings; sometimes they are individuals who are old or diseased and are tired of life and wish to die; sometimes they are piteous or cunning or frightened wre...
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11 30 Impatience, for example, is often indicated by a tremor in the tactile hair on the supporting appendages, as though the creature could not wait to be off; a wandering of attention can be shown by the unconscious movement of the cleaning hooks from behind the third joints of the forelegs, suggesting ...
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3 84 "It's not much of a name for a priest-king, but then I'm not much of a priest-king".
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10 18 Moreover, if not too much time is allowed to elapse, a priest-king may leave a message in his chamber or in a corridor for another priest-king, and the other may arrive later and interpret it.
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11 31 In this case there is again the unconscious movement of the cleaning hooks but there is in addition an incipient, but restrained, extension of the forelegs in the direction of the object toward which the priest-king is well disposed; this suggests to me that the pri...
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12 234 If it is the wish of a priest-king that they die they do so with great joy; if it is the wish of a priest-king that they live, they are similarly delighted".
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15 45 I held the torch high and looked at the priest-king, who was rather small for a priest-king, being only about twelve feet long.
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15 118 "You must remember," said Misk, "that he is a priest-king and thus a rational creature and that we could not turn him into a machine without neutralizing certain critical and perceptive areas, without which he would no longer be a priest-king".
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16 220 "Are you not a priest-king?" "Because I am a priest-king," said Misk.
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18 40 "Must a priest-king learn to be a priest-king?" asked Mul-Ba-Ta.
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21 69 He was followed by another priest-king, and then another, until all but one priest-king had departed the chamber.
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29 13 Here and there where a human or priest-king would dart into the open the cone nearest to him would focus on him and the human or priest-king, like the buildings and the walls, would seem to break apart into powder.
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34 22 "Of course," said Torm, "after all a priest-king is only a priest-king".
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10 1 Misk the priest-king The priest-kings have little or no scent of their own which is detectable by the human nostrils, though one gathers there is a nest odor by which they may identify one another, and that the variations in this nest odor per...
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10 15 For example, does a priest-king have the same qualitative experience that I do when we are confronted by the same scent? I am inclined to doubt it, for their music, which consists of rhapsodies of odors produced by instruments constructed for this purpose, and often playe...
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15 69 "How long," I asked, "does a priest-king live?" "Long ago," said Misk, "priest-kings discovered the secrets of cell replacement without pattern deterioration, and accordingly, unless we meet with injury or accident, we will live until we are fo...
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29 68 Two hypotheses would seem most likely to explain this phenomenon to them, first that I had fled the complex, second that I was nestled among them, and I smiled to myself, for I was certain that the second hypothesis would never occur to a priest-king, for it was too impro...
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30 187 This transfer of allegiance was apparently the result of long discussion and consideration by the group of priest-kings who had followed Sarm because he was First Born, but had at many points objected to his conduct of the War, in particular to his treatment of the Muls, ...
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33 42 There were men in that crowd from Ar, from Thentis, from Tharna, recognized by the two yellow cords in their belt; from Port Kar; from Tor, Cos, Tyros; perhaps from Treve, Vika's home city; perhaps even from fallen, vanished Ko-ro-ba; and the men in that crowd were of all castes, and even of castes ...
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2 77 I then understood that the larl I had heard must be a larl of priest-kings, for no animal and no man enters or exists in the Sardar without the consent of priest-kings, and if it was fed it must be at the hand of priest-king...
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33 125 I had intended to make use of that moment myself, pretending to have come with a message from priest-kings, to encourage man to live as I wished him to live, to respect himself and others, to be kind and to be worthy of the heritage of a rational animal, and yet of what w...
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3 79 It seemed a strange name for a priest-king.
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3 86 "Are you a priest-king?" I asked.
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3 93 I found it strange that a priest-king should fear a larl.
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4 113 "Is a priest-king frightened of a larl?" I asked.
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4 119 "You are a priest-king," I said, "why do you not simply lift your hand and destroy it?" "Of what use is a dead larl?" asked Parp.
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5 168 "But there is only one priest-king," I said, "who calls himself Parp".
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6 63 "Parp, the priest-king," I said.
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6 150 "He is not a priest-king," she said quietly.
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7 89 If it were a matter of waiting I acknowledged that the priest-king, if such it were, who followed me had had the best of things.
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7 90 For all I knew, a priest-king could wait like a stone or tree, nerveless until necessary.
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7 119 I had caught the scent of a priest-king.
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8 26 There was nothing about them to encourage me to believe that the priest-kings, or king as it might be, were ultimately unfathomable or incomprehensible beings.
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8 27 Moreover in the corridor beyond I had sensed the traces, tangible traces, of a priest-king.
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8 29 Yes, I had smelled a priest-king, or its effects.
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9 1 The priest-king I would allow Vika to share the great stone couch, its sleeping pelts, and silken sheets.
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9 248 "I am a priest-king".
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9 268 I followed a priest-king.
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10 17 For example, an odor can carry, to the sensory appendages of a priest-king, much farther than can the shout or cry of a man to another man.
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10 22 The simplest and one of the most fascinating is a chemically treated rope of clothlike material which the priest-king, beginning at an end bearing a certain scent, saturates with the odors of his message.
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10 23 This coiled message rope then retains the odors indefinitely and when another priest-king wishes to read the message he unrolls it slowly, scanning it serially with the jointed sensory appendages.
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10 40 I followed the priest-king for a long time through the passages.
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10 47 The priest-king halted before what appeared to be a blind wall.
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10 49 A panel slid back and the priest-king stepped into what seemed to be a closed room.
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10 52 The priest-king looked down at me and the antennae quivered as though in curiosity.
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10 55 * * * * After perhaps four or five minutes the elevator stopped and the priest-king and I emerged.
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10 56 The priest-king rested back on the two posterior supporting appendages and with a small cleaning hook behind the third joint of one of his forelegs began to comb his antennae.
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10 62 "This," said the priest-king, still grooming the golden hairs of his antennae, "is the vestibule of our dominion".
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10 65 "Notice the energy bulbs," said the priest-king.
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10 71 "It's harmless," said the priest-king.
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10 75 "See what you have done," said the priest-king.
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10 78 "They are timid creatures," said the priest-king, "and I am afraid they have never been able to accustom themselves to the sight of your kind".
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10 79 The priest-king's antennae shuddered a bit as they regarded me.
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10 81 I laughed, not so much because I supposed what it said was absurd, but because I supposed that, from the viewpoint of a priest-king, what it said might well be true.
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10 82 "It is interesting," said the priest-king.
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10 85 "What is a laugh?" asked the priest-king.
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10 90 Or perhaps a priest-king simply could not understand the notion of amusement, it being perhaps genetically removed from his comprehension.
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10 92 "I think I understand," said the priest-king.
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10 93 "It is like shaking and curling your antennae?" "Perhaps," I said, now more puzzled than the priest-king.
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10 94 "How stupid I am," said the priest-king.
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10 96 Then the priest-king ceased to rock and its antennae uncurled, almost reluctantly I thought, and it once again rested quietly back on its posterior appendages and regarded me.
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10 105 "Irrational, yes," agreed the priest-king, "but the lower orders are often irrational.
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10 109 "Is Sarm a priest-king?" I asked.
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10 111 "Then a priest-king may be mistaken," I said.
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10 112 This seemed to me significant, far more significant than the mere fact that a priest-king might not understand a human laugh.
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10 117 "But it would not have mattered," said the priest-king.
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10 124 "It is the beginning of the Nest," said the priest-king.
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11 1 Sarm the priest-king I turned from the railing to observe the great ramp which for pasangs in a great spiral approached the platform on which I stood.
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11 2 Another priest-king, mounted on a low, oval disk which seemed to slide up the ramp, was approaching.
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11 3 The new priest-king looked a great deal like Misk, save that he was larger.
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11 99 I would never find myself fully able to adjust to the incredible stillness with which a priest-king can stand.
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12 120 It was built over a period of two centuries by Kusk, the priest-king, as a way of escaping in his leisure hours from the burdens of his serious biological investigations".
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12 150 Neither priest-king however seemed in the least disturbed by this oath which might have brought tears to the eyes of a member of the Caste of Initiates.
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12 167 "Why do you not," I challenged, "have your Kusk, or whoever he is, synthesize a priest-king?" Sarm seemed to shiver with rage.
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13 3 We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a priest-king, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots.
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13 5 When surrounded by scent-dots one might suppose the priest-king to be subjected to a cacophony of stimulation, much as we might be if environed by dozens of blaring radios and television sets, but this is apparently not the case; the better analogy would seem to be our ex...
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13 21 With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the priest-king, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of...
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13 31 The priest-king, for all his intelligence, tends to be fond of established patterns, at least in basic cultural matters such as Nest mores and language, subscribing to them however not because of genetic necessity but rather a certain undoubtedly genetically based prefere...
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13 32 The priest-king, somewhat like men, can change its ways but seldom cares to do so.
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14 5 Viewing me antiseptically through this shield was the face of a priest-king.
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14 11 The priest-king behind the shield did not seem to notice my remark.
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14 13 As I dangled there to my irritation further devices manipulated by the priest-king emerged from the wall and extended towards me.
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14 16 Considering the size of a priest-king and the comparatively small scale of these operations I gathered that the reduction gearing on the mechanical appendages must be considerable.
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14 94 Actually the walls, ceiling and floor were covered with what, to a priest-king, were excruciatingly beautiful scent-patterns.
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14 176 The priest-king then straightened and stalked to my case.
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14 189 I knew that the priest-king had no need of the torch.
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15 26 With extreme gentleness, almost tenderness, the priest-king touched the palms of my hands with his antennae.
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15 31 "Somewhere here," he said, "but unscented and toward the floor, where a priest-king would not be likely to find it, is a small knob which will look much like a pebble.
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15 33 It was but a moment's work to locate the knob of which he spoke though I gathered from what he said that it might have been well concealed from the typical sensory awareness of a priest-king.
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15 44 Eight wires led from this box into the body of a priest-king which lay on its back, inert, in the center of the room on a moss-softened stone table.
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15 82 "It is well for us to die," said Misk, "for otherwise the Nest would be eternal and the Nest must not be eternal, for how could we love it if it were so?" I could not follow all of what Misk was saying, and I found it hard to take my eyes from the inert figure of the young male priest-...
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15 90 I puzzled on the machine in the room, the wiring that seemed to feed into the young priest-king's body at eight points.
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15 96 My torch lifted, I regarded with awe the inert body of the young priest-king on the stone table.
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15 101 "He is a priest-king," said Misk, "and has eight brains, modifications of the ganglionic net, whereas a creature such as yourself, limited by vertebrae, is likely to develop only one brain".
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15 137 I looked again at the young priest-king lying on the stone table.
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16 1 The Plot of Misk I took my eyes from the young priest-king and looked up at Misk.
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16 13 I turned in rage on the tall, gentle creature who stood, unmoving, behind that strange table and that still form of the young priest-king.
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16 14 "If I had my sword," I said, pointing to the young priest-king, "I would kill it!" "No, you would not," said Misk, "and that is why you and not another were chosen to come to the Sardar".
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16 105 Misk looked down at the young priest-king on the stone table.
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16 210 I was silent and Misk did not speak and the only noise in that paneled metallic laboratory that was the cradle of a priest-king was the soft crackle of the blue torch I held.
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17 1 The Scanning Room Though the moss in the case was soft I had great difficulty in falling asleep that night, for I could not rid my mind of the turbulence which had been occasioned in it by the disclosures of Misk, the priest-king.
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17 6 I rubbed my eyes and stood up, and through the transparent plastic of the case I saw a priest-king.
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17 91 I was told by Sarm that there were four hundred such cubes in the room, and monitoring each, I could see a priest-king, tall, alert, unmoving.
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17 122 "No," said Sarm, "I am a priest-king".
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17 139 The priest-king monitoring the observation cube touched a knob on his control panel.
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17 168 "What if I claimed it was?" "Then I should reply," said Sarm, "that nothing below a priest-king is truly rational".
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18 44 I swung the transportation disk in a graceful arc to one side of the tunnel to avoid running into a crablike organism covered with overlapping plating and then swung the disk back in another sweeping arc to avoid slicing into a stalking priest-king who lifte...
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18 45 "The one who was not a priest-king," quickly said Mul-Al-Ka, "was a Matok and is called a Toos and lives on discarded fungus spores".
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18 62 "I have never seen even a priest-king do that," said Mul-Al-Ka, with something of awe in his voice.
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18 72 "Do you think," said Mul-Ba-Ta loftily, "that a priest-king would have done so foolish a thing with a transportation disk?" "No," said Mul-Al-Ka, his face beaming.
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18 114 I then realized that he had touched himself at the points of entry taken by the wires which had been infixed in the young priest-king's body on the stone table in the secret compartment below Misk's chamber.
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18 141 "I suppose if I were a priest-king I would not wish to see it pass".
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18 161 "He for all his guilt and treason is yet a priest-king".
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18 163 "There can be no Nest Trust between a priest-king and a human," said Sarm.
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19 20 Where would one strike a priest-king? To my surprise Sarm then jerked at the door of the compartment from which he had withdrawn my sword.
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19 55 "By the way," I asked, "how does one kill a priest-king?" As I asked this I found myself unconsciously measuring my distance from Sarm.
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19 87 I said nothing for a moment, but simply looked at the priest-king who loomed above me.
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19 99 "Sarm is your friend," came from the priest-king's translator.
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20 3 "We are instructed," said Mul-Al-Ka, "to take you to the priest-king Misk, whom you are to slay".
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20 80 "On the other hand," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "it is the wish of a priest-king and thus we also rejoice".
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20 191 "A true priest-king," said Mul-Al-Ka.
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21 57 Many times was a golden vessel held for a priest-king as it slowly yielded whatever had been stored in its abdomen to the Muls.
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21 65 At last I saw one priest-king move from the ceiling and climb backwards down the wall.
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21 68 The priest-king, escorted by Muls, then began to move slowly, step by majestic step, down the passage outside of the chamber.
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21 70 In the light of the last torches which left the chamber I could see that there remained one priest-king who, though emptied of Gur, still clung to the ceiling.
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22 44 "Then there is no swift way to kill a priest-king?" I asked.
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22 84 I turned to the priest-king.
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22 106 "Let there be Nest Trust between a priest-king and two Muls," said Misk.
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22 107 "There can be no Nest Trust between a priest-king and Muls," said Mul-Ba-Ta.
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22 108 "Then," said Misk, "between a priest-king and two of the human kind".
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22 120 "It is much the same thing with a priest-king," said Misk.
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22 171 "Is it as difficult to slay a Golden Beetle as a priest-king?" I asked.
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22 178 I turned to go but then turned once again to face the priest-king.
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22 179 "Could you, Misk," I asked, "with those bladelike structures on your forelegs slay a priest-king?" Misk inverted his forelegs and examined the blades.
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22 189 And we turned, the priest-king and I, and went our separate ways.
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24 2 The Golden Beetle was not nearly as tall as a priest-king, but it was probably considerably heavier.
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24 28 It would most certainly limit its vision but I did not suppose that the Golden Beetle, any more than a priest-king, much depended on this sense.
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24 61 How was it then, I asked myself, that such a slow, awkward, clumsy creature, no matter how formidable at close range, could capture and slay an organism as alert and swift as a priest-king? I moved Vika's limbs and rubbed her hands to see if I could restore her circulatio...
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25 2 They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a priest-king, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system...
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25 139 The last time I had seen this woman conscious had been in the chamber where she had tried with the snares of her beauty to capture and conquer me for my archenemy, Sarm the priest-king.
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26 36 "You will be a girl brought from the surface," I said, "for you are still unshaved, and you are to be delivered to the Vivarium on the orders of Sarm, the priest-king".
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27 6 The word of the two Muls by the portal might or might not carry weight with their priest-king Masters.
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27 32 I wondered about the young male priest-king in the secret chamber below Misk's compartment.
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27 40 There was a priest-king on guard whose antennae waved quizzically about as I drew the disk to a stop not twelve feet from him.
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27 42 It took a moment for me to understand the priest-king's consternation.
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27 46 At last his antennae fastened on me but I am sure the priest-king was annoyed that he did not receive the strong signals he would have if I had been wearing my own scent-infixed tunic.
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27 50 The only priest-king in the Nest who could have recognized me immediately, and perhaps from a distance, was probably Misk, who knew me not as a Mul but a friend.
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27 52 The priest-king seemed relieved to hear me speak.
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27 56 "Return to whence you came and inquire," said the priest-king.
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27 58 I glanced over my shoulder and I could see the priest-king still straining to sense me.
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27 64 From one of these openings I could see that I was already behind the steel barricade with its priest-king guard, who was standing as I would have expected, in that almost vertical, slender, golden fixity that was so characteristic of his kind.
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27 72 There were perhaps hundreds of knobs on each side and one priest-king on each side with great skill and apparent rhythm touched one knob after another in intricate patterns.
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27 77 It was undoubtedly of the priest-king kind, and it now was unwinged, but the most incredible feature was the fantastic extent of the abdomen.
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27 78 Its head was little larger than that of an ordinary priest-king, or its thorax, but its trunk was conjoined to an abdomen which if swollen with eggs might have been scarcely smaller than a city bus.
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27 81 Her coloring was not that of the normal priest-king but darker, more brownish, and here and there black stains discolored her thorax and abdomen.
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27 95 As the musicians continued to produce their rhapsodic, involute rhythms of aroma on the scent-producer, one priest-king at a time, one after the other, would slowly stalk forward and approach the Platform of the Mother.
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27 105 I watched as one priest-king and then another approached the Mother and repeated the Gur Ceremony.
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27 117 I had watched for perhaps an hour and then it seemed that the ceremony might be over, for some minutes passed and no further priest-king approached the Mother.
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27 146 Before the Platform of the Mother, facing Misk, rearing perhaps two feet over him, Sarm stood with what, even for a priest-king, seemed a most terrible quietude.
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27 157 I wondered how long it would take to kill a priest-king.
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27 176 Had the translator been turned on, I would have heard "Lo Sardar"—"I am a priest-king".
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27 178 He could not slay a priest-king.
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27 192 "Hold, priest-king!" I cried.
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27 240 "A silver tube to kill only a Mul?" asked the priest-king.
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27 242 "I spoke in jest," said Sarm to the other priest-king, who made no response but, unmoving, regarded him.
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27 245 "It is a great crime to threaten a priest-king," he said.
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27 248 "If you are dead," I asked, "how will you have them sent to the dissection chambers?" "It is a great crime to kill a priest-king," said Sarm.
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27 283 Another priest-king and then another pressed more closely and I went with them to the platform.
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27 304 The other priest-king who had come with a syringe examined her antennae and the brown, dull eyes.
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27 340 "Half larl, half priest-king".
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27 362 Then before my horrified eyes the carcass of that ancient she began to shiver and tremble and I stood back as she struggled to my amazement to her feet and reared herself to the height of a priest-king, her antennae extended to their very lengths as though grasping, clutc...
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28 157 "We were bred in this Nest," he told the priest-king, "and it is ours as well as yours".
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28 162 And so it was that the former Muls, humans, bringing with them the basic food supplies of the Nest, began to flock to the side of the priest-king Misk and his few cohorts.
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28 178 What sensory data might escape the antennae might well be discovered by the sharp-eyed human, and what subtle scent might escape the human senses would likely be easily picked up by the priest-king in the group.
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28 180 Once a brave priest-king of Misk's forces was slain and the humans who had fought with him wept.
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28 181 Another time a priest-king braved the fire of a dozen silver tubes to rescue one of the spidery Gur Carriers who had been injured.
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28 234 Misk would pilot the craft upon occasion but it was, in fact, rather cramped for him and he could not stand within it, a fact that bothered him no end for a priest-king, for some reason, becomes extremely agitated when he cannot stand.
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28 247 Misk seized me and with the harrowing speed of the priest-king leaped across the room, buffeting the case I had occupied ten yards across the chamber, bent down and flung up the trap and, carrying me, darted into the passage below.
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29 72 For once I was sure I could outwait a priest-king.
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29 74 My heart leaped! Ground fire! I could imagine Misk hastening to his tools and the vast assemblage of instrumentation in his shop, or perhaps sending an outraged priest-king to some secret arsenal where lay a forbidden weapon, one to which Misk would never have had recours...
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29 88 At that moment I saw the hatch on the injured but threatening ship fly up and the head of a priest-king emerge.
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29 127 A forward door opened and a priest-king stepped into view, puzzled, startled at the sensing of the open hatch.
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29 128 I pressed the firing switch of the silver tube and it gave forth with a short, abortive scorching blast and was cold, but the golden body of the priest-king blackened and, half sliced through, reeled against the wall and fell at my feet.
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29 129 Another priest-king followed the first and I pressed the firing switch again but there was no response.
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29 134 I seized the sword which I had never ceased to wear and uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba rushed forward but as I did so I suddenly threw myself to the ground beneath those extended projections and slashed away at the priest-king's posterior appendages.
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29 135 There was a sudden fearful scream of odor from the signal glands of the priest-king and he tipped to one side, reaching for me with his grasping appendages.
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29 140 So this was how a priest-king might be slain, I thought, somehow here one must sever the ganglionic net in mortal fashion.
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29 142 Then, as though I were a pet Mul, the priest-king extended his antennae toward me.
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29 144 Did it wish me to comb the antennae? Was it conscious? Was it mad with pain? I stood not understanding and then the priest-king did what he wished: with a toss of his great golden head he hurled his antennae against my blade, cutting them from his head, and then, after a ...
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29 146 Now that it was not being controlled, it hovered where the second priest-king, probably its pilot, had left it when he had come to investigate the fate of his companion.
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30 5 To one side I saw a brownish priest-king, very thin and angular, wearing the appearances of age but yet his antennae seemed as alert as those of any one of the golden creatures.
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30 7 "May I introduce the priest-king Kusk," said Parp, gesturing to the tall, angular figure who loomed to one side.
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30 35 Kusk, who was a wise priest-king and perhaps aware of the psychology of humans, turned to Parp.
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30 70 Most savage and unnatural of all, at least to the mind of a priest-king, was the release of the Golden Beetles from their various tunnels in the vicinity of the Nest.
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30 115 I myself was pleased that it had taken a priest-king to have me chained at Vika's feet, that it had not been I myself who, in the hope of her favors, had fastened about my own throat the collar of a slave.
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30 163 "Do you think a priest-king is incapable of love?" * * * * Now my imprisonment on the rubber disk seemed less irritating than it had.
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30 176 "What a piteous thing you are," she said to me, "and how golden and strong and brave and fine is a priest-king!" And Sarm would extend his antennae down to her that she might delicately brush the small golden hairs which adorned them.
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30 212 "Sarm is a priest-king," he said.
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31 18 How tender I felt toward the golden giant in that moment as I realized that he, though a priest-king, had come to give his life for mine, simply because we had once locked antennae, simply because we were friends, simply because there was Nest Trust between us.
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31 138 Then I had the curve of the dome between me and the priest-king.
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31 152 At last I stood not more than a dozen yards from the priest-king.
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31 162 "No," he said, "there is only one priest-king, the First Born, Sarm—he who did not betray the Nest, he who was beloved of the Mother, he who kept and honored the ancient truths of his people".
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31 163 The bladelike figure of the priest-king seemed to waver on the walkway and the antennae seemed blown about as though by the wind.
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31 202 The priest-king could not move.
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31 213 Then to my amazement when the Beetle neared Sarm the priest-king sank down on his supporting appendages, almost as if he were on his knees, and suddenly plunged his face and antennae into the midst of the waving mane hair of the Golden Beetle.
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31 214 I watched the pincerlike jaws grip and puncture the thorax of the priest-king.
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31 225 Once, as though by some supreme effort of will, Sarm, who was a great priest-king, lifted his head from the golden hair and stared at me.
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31 227 "Die, priest-king," I said softly.
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32 19 The purple mass of bubbling fury poured over the rubble toward the priest-king.
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32 21 But the priest-king paid me no attention, trying to move a great block of stone which had fallen across one of the supporting appendages of the dead Sarm.
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32 26 "Leave him!" "He is a priest-king," said Misk.
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32 30 "Because he is a priest-king," said Misk.
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32 32 "But he was a priest-king," said Misk, and he touched the crushed, torn figure of Sarm gently with his antennae.
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32 65 They met perhaps a hundred yards from where I stood and I saw the priest-king place a foreleg on the shoulder of each and together they stood and waited for the final crumbling of the Nest.
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32 140 "I am a priest-king," he said.
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32 141 "The probability is not such that a priest-king, who is a rational creature, would act upon it".
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32 145 "It is not becoming to a priest-king to scramble about like a human—still scratching here and there when there is no likelihood of success".
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32 172 "You do not understand, my children," said Kusk, "what the Golden Beetle means to a priest-king".
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32 192 "I wish you well, Misk, priest-king," I said.
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35 1 The Night of the priest-king It occurred last night.
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35 17 Outlined against the largest of Gor's three hurtling moons was the black silhouette, as sharp and keen as a knife, of a priest-king.
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35 22 "Misk!" I cried, rushing to the priest-king and lifting my hands to receive the antennae which were gently placed in them.
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35 41 He had been a great enemy, a great priest-king, and had lived as he had thought he should.
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35 66 "Who am I," asked Misk, "to decide how a priest-king should live—or die?" I was silent.
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35 163 "I wish you well, priest-king," I said.
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35 168 Together we watched the tall figure on the hill, outlined against the moon, not moving, standing in the uncanny, marvelous immobility of the priest-king, only its antennae blowing back over its head in the wind.
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35 177 How could I tell him that he looked, with incredulity and horror, on one of the awesome denizens of the grim Sardar, on one of the fabulous and mysterious monarchs of his very world, on one of the gods of Gor—on a priest-king? "I can hurl my spear through it," said...
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1 64 Such contests, in which life is lost, used to be popular at Ar, for example, being sponsored in that city by the Caste of Initiates, who regard themselves as being intermediaries between priest-kings and men, though I suspect that, at least on the whole, they know as litt...
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5 143 "Yes," she continued, "I, armed with my beauty, would come to the Sardar and wrest the riches and power of the priest-kings from them, for men had always sought to serve me, to give me what I wanted, and were the priest-kings not men?" People h...
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5 173 Perhaps Parp was the last of the priest-kings? Surely it seemed likely that such massive structures as the Hall of priest-kings must have been the product of more than one being.
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8 37 "The priest-kings see and the priest-kings hear!" I cried.
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10 2 What in the passageways I had taken to be the scent of priest-kings had actually been the residue of odor-signals which priest-kings, like certain social insects of our world, use in communicating with one another.
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10 30 Similarly in the language of the priest-kings, the seventy-three "phonemes" or basic scents are used to form the meaning units of the language, and a single morpheme of priest-kings may consist of a complex set of odors.
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10 33 I was told, incidentally, that the language of the priest-kings does possess more morphemes than English but I do not know if the report is truthful or not, for priest-kings tend to be somewhat touchy on the matter of any comparisons, particula...
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13 4 If the scent-dots were themselves not scented one might be tempted to think of them as graphemes in the language of the priest-kings, but since they themselves are scented they are best construed as analogous to uttered phonemes or phoneme combinations, direct expressions...
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17 13 "It is near the Feast of Tola," said Sarm, "and it is a time of pleasure and hospitality in the Nest of priest-kings, a time in which priest-kings are well disposed to all living things, whatever be their order".
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17 112 I, in the very Nest of priest-kings, was more free than he who walked the stones of some road in the bright sun, somewhere beyond the palisade, far from the mountains of priest-kings yet still in the shadow of the Sardar.
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20 144 Should I kill the innocent attendants, merely Muls who were performing the tasks allotted to them by priest-kings? Would I then have to slay Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta as well? And what would I do with the girl in the Nest of priest-kings? And wha...
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21 56 While the creatures remaining on the floor continued their mournful paean, their fellow creatures on the walls and ceiling, still carrying their torches, and scattering wild shadows of their own bodies and those of swollen priest-kings against the ceiling, began to fill t...
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27 68 There were perhaps a thousand priest-kings in the Nest, and I supposed that this might be almost all the priest-kings in the Nest, save perhaps those that might be essentially placed at a few minimum posts, such as the guard at the steel barric...
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27 104 The special Gur used on the Feast of Tola is, in the ancient fashion, kept for weeks in the social stomachs of specially chosen priest-kings to mellow and reach the exact flavor and consistency desired, which priest-kings are then spoken of as ...
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27 109 I was already familiar with the astounding patience of priest-kings and so I was not surprised at the almost total lack of movement in the lines of that golden pattern, formed of priest-kings, which radiated out from the Platform of the Mother.
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27 119 The rows of the priest-kings separated forming an aisle down the middle of the chamber and the priest-kings now stood facing this aisle, and down the aisle together came Sarm and Misk.
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27 316 "I wanted to be," said the brown, dying creature, "the only Mother of priest-kings, and I listened to my First Born who wanted to be the only First Born of a Mother of priest-kings".
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31 160 "It has sheltered the Nest of priest-kings but now there are no more priest-kings—only I, only Sarm is left".
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33 2 It was a strange but rapid journey, and as we leaped chasms and seemed almost to swim in the cold air I told myself that Misk and his priest-kings and the humans that were engineers in the Nest were losing the battle that would decide whether men and priest-...
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33 86 "Now the priest-kings blow the breath of my sacrifice as a blessing upon you, letting it travel to the ends of Gor to speak of their wisdom and mercy!" There was a great cry of joy from the crowd and shouts of gratitude to the priest-kings.
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35 35 Indeed, the ships were regarded as vehicles of a type forbidden to men by priest-kings and their passengers were attacked in the name of the very priest-kings from which they had come.
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35 127 If I should attempt to help Misk, what would this mean, ultimately? Would it not be to surrender my race to the mercies of the people of Sarm and the priest-kings who had served him, or would it be ultimately to protect my race until it had learned to live with itself, un...
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1 54 The fairs, incidentally, are governed by Merchant law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged.
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1 56 Yet perhaps this is not so puzzling, for the Gorean cities will, within their own walls, enforce the Merchant law when pertinent, even against their own citizens.
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1 63 Sometimes these men are merchants who wish thereby to secure goodwill for their products; sometimes they are practitioners of the law, who hope to sway the votes of jury men; sometimes they are Ubars or High Initiates who find it in their interests to keep the crowds amused.
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17 153 "What right have you to make the law for him?" I asked.
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25 18 I smiled to myself, for I could always tell her, and truthfully, that having saved her life she was now mine by Gorean law, so brief had been her freedom, and that it was up to me to determine the extent and nature of her clothing, and, indeed, whether or not she would be allowed cloth...
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35 100 "If you should regain your power," I asked, "what do you propose to do with it? Will you still set forth the law in certain matters for men?" "Undoubtedly," said Misk.
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Book 4. (26 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 17 And if I should find the object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of priest-kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of priest-...
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16 305 The Others—those of power, not priest-kings, must, to some extent, understand or sense the politics, the needs and policies of the remote denizens of the Sardar—they were probably not altogether unaware of the business of priest-king<...
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2 21 But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for priest-kings, a n...
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16 295 How else would he dare to use the name of priest-kings on the message in the message collar?" I knew, of course, that the man was not a priest-king.
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7 206 Who, or what, could dare such a thing? Besides, how did I know that the message was not from priest-kings? I knew, as Kamchak and Kutaituchik did not, of the recent Nest War beneath the Sardar, and of the disruption in the technological complexes of the Nest—who kn...
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7 209 And finally, I reminded myself again, was I not now engaged in their work? Was I not now attempting to be of service to them? Was I not now among the Wagon Peoples, in peril perhaps, on their behalf? But, I asked myself, if this message was not from priest-kings, from who...
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7 210 There must be others—others, who did not wish me to succeed in my work, who wished priest-kings, the race, to die, others who were capable even of bringing humans from Earth for their purposes—technologically advanced—others who were, perhaps, cautiou...
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16 299 He might well be, and I supposed it true, merely an agent—but for whom, or what?—something that would challenge even priest-kings—but, it must be, something that feared priest-kings, or it would already have struck—t...
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2 20 "Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the priest-king, adding, "Man is not yet rational".
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16 294 "For all I know," said Saphrar, "the man is a priest-king.
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2 3 Some years before, perhaps between two and five years before, as the culmination of an intrigue enduring centuries, two men, humans from the walled cities of Gor, had, for the sake of priest-kings, undertaken a long, secret journey, carrying an object to the Wagon Peoples...
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2 8 Could I—Tarl Cabot, a human and mortal, find this object and, as priest-kings now wished, return it to the Sardar—return it to the hidden courts of priest-kings that it might there fulfill its unique and irreplaceable role in the ...
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2 10 But why was it I who came? Why not priest-kings in their ships and power, with their fierce weapons and fantastic devices? priest-kings cannot stand the sun.
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2 26 Perhaps if I were successful I might save my race, by preserving the priest-kings that might shelter them from the annihilation that might otherwise be achieved if uncontrolled technological development were too soon permitted them; perhaps in time man would grow rational...
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6 61 Had the girl been brought to this world by priest-kings? Was she the recent victim of one of the Voyages of Acquisition? But I understood them to have been curtailed in the recent subterranean War of priest-kings.
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16 306 They could have learned of the destruction of much of the surveillance equipment of the Sardar, of the substantial reduction in the technological capabilities of priest-kings, at least for a short time—and, most importantly, that the War had been fought, in a way, ...
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16 309 Thus, the Others might well infer that there was one, or more, concealed eggs, hidden away, which must now be secured that the new generation might be inaugurated, but hidden away quite possibly not in the Place of priest-kings itself, but elsewhere, out of the home of 6
17 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 na...
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26 227 "Because," I said, "—it is the last seed of priest-kings—an egg—a child—the hope of priest-kings, to them all—everything, the world, the universe".
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26 299 It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of priest-kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my fr...
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9 18 There would be something, of course, to be said for such a claim, for the merchants are often indeed in their way, brave, shrewd, skilled men, making long journeys, venturing their goods, risking caravans, negotiating commercial agreements, among themselves developing and...
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1 19 Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...
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9 479 It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative—or nearest relative if no adult male...
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11 52 "How fortunate then," observed Saphrar, "that such a transaction is precluded by law".
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11 65 A slave, not being a person in the eyes of Gorean law, cannot possess a name in his own right, any more than an animal.
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11 66 Indeed, in the eyes of Gorean law, unfortunately, slaves are animals, utterly and unqualifiedly at the disposition of their masters, to do with as he pleases.
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Book 5. (26 results) Assassin of Gor

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4 87 We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the priest-kings, and the Others, not priest-kings, who desired this world of priest-kings and men, a...
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5 150 On the surface of the ship, tall and thin, like the blade of a golden knife, his forelegs lifted delicately before his body, his golden antennae blown in the wind, there stood, with the incredible fixity and alertness of his kind, a priest-king.
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5 152 The priest-king took a step toward me on its four supporting posterior appendages, and stopped, as though it dared not move more.
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5 159 The cleaning hooks behind the third joints of the priest-king's forelegs lifted and emerged delicately, and extended toward me.
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5 216 I myself had much to speak of with Misk and with other friends of the Nest, notably Kusk, the priest-king, and Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, who were humans, and fondly remembered.
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5 219 A priest-king named Serus, whom I had not known in the Nest War, but who had been of the cohorts of Sarm, had developed an interesting device for slave control, which I might mention.
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5 228 Also, in the Nest, I met the male, who had no name, no more than the Mother has a name among the priest-king kind.
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5 237 Elizabeth had agreed but was startled when placed on a long table, actually of a size for a priest-king, and found her head enclosed between two curved, intricate devices, rather like two halves of a bowl.
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5 244 "In educating a priest-king," I said, "wires were used—eight—one to each brain".
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5 245 "We now dispense with wires," said Kusk, "even in the case of a priest-king.
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17 230 I saw in his elevation a portion of the plan of Others being unfolded; with one of their own on the throne of Ar, they would have a remarkable base in Ar for the advancement of their schemes, in particular the influencing of men, the recruitment of partisans in their cause; as Misk had pointed out, ...
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1 22 These men of Ko-ro-ba, he knew, when their city had been destroyed by priest-kings, had been scattered to the ends of Gor but, when permitted by priest-kings, they had returned to their city to rebuild it, each bearing a stone to add to its wal...
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5 299 In the last days, I spoke often with Misk of the difficulties connected with obtaining the last egg of priest-kings, in particular informing him that others had wished the egg as well, and had nearly acquired it, others who had had the technology to visit Earth, to seize ...
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7 73 The ship was disklike, as are the ships of priest-kings, but it had observation apertures, which the ships of priest-kings lack.
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18 171 "Dar-Kosis," I said, "is thought to be holy to the priest-kings, and those afflicted with it to be consecrated to priest-kings".
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13 131 He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the proceeds of her sale were used, again following th...
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2 197 "There seems little law now," said Portus.
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11 325 The male of Earth is conditioned to be more timid, vacillating and repressed than the males of Gor; to be subject, to achieve social controls, to guilts and anxieties that would be as incomprehensible to the Gorean male as a guilt over having spoken to one's father-in-law's sister woul...
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15 403 Gorean law, however, does not so regard them.
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16 211 If a substantial proportion of races are not won in the first two seasons the law of the Stadium of Tarns discontinues its recognition of that faction.
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17 160 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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17 206 Shortly thereafter Maximus Hegesius Quintilius was found dead, poisoned by the bite of a girl in his Pleasure Gardens, who, before she could be brought before the Scribes of the law, was strangled by enraged Taurentians, to whom she had been turned over; it was well known that the Taur...
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18 170 Those who contract the disease are regarded by law as dead.
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24 450 "Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the Home Stone?" I gasped.
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24 456 "As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the Home Stone of Ar".
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24 472 "If a Ubar does not respect the law of the Home Stone, what man shall?" "None," said I.
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Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

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9 176 When at last I had brought her safely back to the Sardar I had thus told her I would arrange with Misk, the priest-king, that she be returned to Earth.
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18 883 "Did Misk," I asked, "the priest-king, know of any of this?" "No," said Samos.
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18 937 "When you lost your images of yourselves, and learned your humanity, in your diverse ways, and shame, you abandoned your myths, your songs, and would accept only the meat of animals, as though one so lofty as yourself must be either priest-king or beast.
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9 173 Already she would doubtless be known to the Others, not priest-kings, who would challenge priest-kings for this world, and Earth.
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10 26 The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.
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15 210 In Gorean law a slave is an animal; before the law he has no rights; he is dependent on his master not only for his name but for his very life; he may be disposed of by the master at any time and in any way the master pleases.
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11 358 "Be it known to you, Ubars," said he, "that Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, now proposes to the council that it take into its own hands the full and sole governance of the city of Port Kar, with full powers, whether of policy and decree, of enforcement, of taxation and law, or other, ...
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15 121 Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law.
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15 123 For the first time in several years one could count on the law being the same on both sides of a given canal.
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Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

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11 379 She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most practical purp...
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12 440 The stockades are governed under Merchant law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.
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14 420 Perhaps one of the things that free women most envy in slaves is that they are not only permitted to reveal their beauty but that they must, even in the light of law, do so.
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14 467 Gorean law is on his side, not hers.
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14 468 Indeed, as an animal, she has no standing whatsoever before the law.
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16 287 On Gor, of course, her relationship to the master is open, public, institutionalized, accepted, taken for granted, and celebrated, a matter of law.
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18 38 By Gorean law the companionship, to be binding, must, together, be annually renewed, pledged afresh with the wines of love.
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Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 97 It was true that the Companionship, not renewed, had been dissolved in the eyes of Gorean law.
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1 321 The Gorean slave, in the eyes of Gorean law, is an animal, with no legal title to a name.
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3 41 The Merchants, who control Lydius, under Merchant law, for it is a free port, like Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, are more interested in having their port heavily trafficked than strictly policed.
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9 163 In law, and in the eyes of Goreans, Talena was now without family.
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11 60 In the eyes of Goreans, and Gorean law, the slave is an animal.
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Book 9. (23 results) Marauders of Gor

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11 208 If the priest-kings did not do this, perhaps for reasons of pride, their laws having been given, then, in effect, Gor might become a Kur world, in which, given local allies, the priest-kings might finally be isolated and destroyed...
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18 654 Native Kurii, bred from ships' survivors over centuries, would not, it seemed, if limited to the primitive weapons permitted men, be capable of conquering Gor, isolating the priest-kings in the Sardar, until they could be destroyed, or, alternatively, perhaps be used to l...
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20 138 Long ago, in the Sardar, Misk, the priest-king, had told me that priest-kings see little difference between Kurii and men, that they regarded them as equivalent species.
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1 95 He had been instrumental in the Nest War, and had earned the friendship and gratitude of the priest-king, Misk, glorious, gentle Misk.
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2 218 It is regarded as blasphemy to attempt to picture a priest-king.
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18 644 I thought of golden Misk, the priest-king, of once, long ago, when his antennae had touched the palms of my uplifted hands, and Nest Trust had been pledged between us.
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20 113 Though I am only human, neither Kur nor priest-king, I give you salute".
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2 54 It was said that he wished, in regret for the wickedness of his life, to be carried in death to the temple of priest-kings in Kassau, that the High Initiate there might, if it be his mercy, draw on his bones in the sacred grease the sign of the priest-...
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2 223 I wondered what might become of the religion of priest-kings, if priest-kings should ever choose to make themselves known to men.
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2 259 There were the golden bowls used to gather the blood of the sacrificed animals; cups used to pour libations to priest-kings; vessels containing oils; lavers in which the celebrants of the rites might cleanse their hands from their work; there were even the small bowls of ...
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2 293 He comes in death to the temple of priest-kings, that his bones may be anointed with the grease of priest-kings.
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2 330 But Ivar Forkbeard had come in death, if not in life, to the temple of priest-kings, betraying the old gods, to have his bones anointed at last with the grease of priest-kings.
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11 31 To me this seems preposterous, for ones so wise as priest-kings, but, in spite of its obvious falsity, priest-kings regard the Kurii and men as rather similar, almost equivalent species.
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15 57 Not only would the decision to halt the invasion be in violation of the practices and commitments of priest-kings, which would doubtless create dissension in the Nest, producing a leverage the Kurii might be able to exploit, but, if the invasion were halted, it being a la...
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20 49 They need an envoy, one known to priest-kings, yet one independent of them, one whom they respect, a man of valiance and judgment, with whom to negotiate, one to carry their proposals to priest-kings".
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6 433 "It was set so high," said he, "out of the reach of custom and law, against the protests of the rune-priests and his own men, that none, in his belief, could pay it".
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1 259 At that point, in Gorean law, the companionship had been dissolved.
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2 88 There is often a tension between them and the civil authorities, for each regards themselves as supreme in matters of policy and law for their districts.
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6 393 Most lived in ships, the steel wolves of space, their instincts bridled, to some extent, by Ship Loyalty, Ship law.
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10 73 Blows are not to be struck at the Thing, but not even the law of the Thing, with all its might, would have the temerity to advise the man of Torvaldsland to arrive or move about unarmed.
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10 89 In the crowd, too, much in evidence, were brazen bondmaids; they had been brought to the Thing, generally, by captains and Jarls; it is not unusual for men to bring such slaves with them, though they are not permitted near the law courts or the assemblies of deliberation; the voyages t...
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10 155 A man, incredibly enough, may be challenged by such a fellow for his farm, or his companion, or daughter; if the challenge is not accepted, the stake is forfeit; if the challenge is accepted, of course, he who is challenged risks his life among the hazel wands; he may be slain; then, too, of course,...
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12 18 About them, some on the dais, and some below it, stood his high officers, and his men of law, his counselors, his captains, and the chief men from his scattered farms and holdings; too, much in evidence, were more than four hundred of his men-at-arms.
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Book 10. (14 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 734 "Misk, a priest-king," said he, "one high in the Sardar, has asked Kurii for a further specification of details".
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11 199 Each of these, however, the world of the man, the cuttlefish, the butterfly, the ant, the sleen, the priest-king is congruent, though perhaps in unusual ways, with the presumably singular, unique physical world.
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13 383 The priest-king is a relatively gentle organism, delicate and stately.
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1 786 Had they known the weakness of the Sardar, and the time required to restore the power source, regenerating itself now at inexorable concentration rates determined by natural law, they would have surely launched their fleets.
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5 762 The collar, by Gorean law, canceled the past.
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9 86 "More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari.
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10 12 The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.
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12 168 Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the seraglio, backe...
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12 300 "It is my understanding, following merchant law, and Tahari custom," I said, "that I am not a slave, for though I am a prisoner, I have been neither branded nor collared, nor have I performed a gesture of submission".
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13 76 He holds within his territories the right of law and execution.
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17 34 His will, his word, in the kennel decrees law.
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17 94 One must speak carefully whose words become law.
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24 806 "Men on Earth," she cried, "will be dethroned by law!" "Earth has a complex and intricate political history," I said.
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26 1208 Further, Gor was the true prize of the planets rotating about the sun, not the Earth, for, in the name of rights and liberty, and business, the fools of Earth, confused by the rhetoric of law and morality, shielding short-sighted greed and madness, had stood aside, permitting the poiso...
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Book 11. (12 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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26 202 "You understand further, of course," said he, "that under Gorean merchant law, which is the only law commonly acknowledged binding between cities, that you stand under separate permissions of enslavement.
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3 481 The brand has on Gor legal, institutional status; that which it marks it makes an object; its victim has no rights, or appeal, within the law.
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3 531 That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th...
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5 142 The Companion Contract, thus, had been duly negotiated, with the attention of scribes of the law from both Fortress of Saphronicus and the Confederation of Saleria.
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5 198 Some cities are governed by a Ubar, who is in effect a military sovereign, sometimes a tyrant, whose word is law.
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6 55 I now saw them as unique, exciting masters, each different and incredibly individual, who might, for a word or gesture, have me; how could I not regard them differently from a free woman; and, too, doubtless, they saw me in a similarly immediate and intensely personal fashion, not as an object shiel...
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7 227 The slave is not a person before Gorean law but a rightless animal.
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9 934 If it were true, in Gorean law, it could be no slander.
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9 959 If this were true, it was, in Gorean law, no slander.
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22 358 The slave is seen as a lovely property which may be purchased or stolen, owned and mastered; she has no standing in the eyes of the law; she is rightless and vulnerable; she belongs to the master and must obey and serve him; she exists to please; that is her purpose; she must hope to w...
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22 451 This not only has its profound erotic effect on the slave and others, but it usefully, from the point of view of merchant law, identifies her as a slave.
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24 97 "And it is a civic matter, and you have been authorized to apprehend her and bring her before a slave praetor?" Slaves, as animals, lack standing before the law.
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Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 14 "It is not unlike men," had once said Misk to me, a priest-king.
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3 137 An initiate in the lead carried a standard on which was mounted the sign of the priest-kings, a golden circle, that which has no beginning or end, the symbol of eternity, the symbol of priest-kings.
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3 75 It is here that Merchant law is drafted and stabilized.
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15 486 Gorean law, of course, is complex and latitudinous on these matters.
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Book 13. (9 results) Explorers of Gor

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48 255 Technically, according to Merchant law, which serves as the arbiter in such intermunicipal matters, the girls become briefly the property of their rescuers, else how could they be freed? Further, according to Merchant law, the rescuer has no obligation to free the girl.
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4 128 Also, of course, one standing before the desk must look up to see the praetor, which, psychologically, tends to induce a feeling of fear for the power of the law.
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4 192 Then I was naked! Find her, if you wish to be busy with matters of the law! I was the victim of theft! It was stolen from me, my garment! You should be hunting her, the thief, not holding me here.
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18 44 Bila Huruma was then hearing cases at law, selected for his attention.
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27 154 Too, it is in accord with Merchant law.
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32 337 "Also," I said, "if you are interested in these matters, you are not simply an animal in the literal sense, in the biological sense of 'animal', but in the sense that persons, individuals with rights before the law, are distinguished from animals".
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32 341 In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal.
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34 259 "Technically," I said, "in the eyes of Gorean law you are not an object but an animal".
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51 107 The brief garments of the female slave identify her instantly as slave, comply with recommendations of Merchant law, brazenly display her flesh which is that of an animal for the delectation of free men, impress upon her her lowly status, and, interestingly, keep her in a state of sexu...
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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24 82 These are the three standard marking places, following the recommendations of Merchant law, for the marking of Kajirae, with the left thigh being, in practice, the overwhelmingly favored brand site.
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2 75 You are not yet a legal slave, a slave under law.
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2 79 You will eventually find that you are, fully and legally, under law, a slave, totally a slave, and only a slave".
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12 32 Is it truly easier, I wonder, to adopt columns and arches, philosophy and poetry, mathematics and medicine, and law, than a rational mode of dress.
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12 373 I have not mentioned, either, slaves with professional competencies, such as medicine or law, or fighting slaves, in effect gladiators, men purchased for use as bodyguards or combatants in arranged games.
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27 114 It has proven to be an especially viable social institution, contributing to the stability and practicality of society, and it is honored in mores and sanctioned in law.
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27 296 "There is a breakdown of law and order".
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27 372 The thighs and the lower left abdomen are the brand sites recommended by Merchant law.
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34 157 Her position is sanctioned in law.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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21 297 It is a complex, vital, bright, colorful, deeply sensuous civilization; it is a harsh, gorgeous world in which the slave girl has a special role and place; her condition is unquestioned and categorical; it is supported by history, by custom and law; there is absolutely no escape for he...
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24 392 The fullest slave, of course, is she who is a natural slave, and then, beyond this, truly wears the collar, that slave who is a slave by nature and whose slavery, released, is then confirmed and fixed upon her openly, publicly, by all the sanctions of custom and law, for all the world ...
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24 400 Beyond this, of course, we knew we were, categorically and absolutely, legal slaves, lovely properties which might be bartered and sold, and who might figure in transactions which would be upheld in any court of law.
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Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

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2 107 They come to the sea walls flying the merchant flag which, in virtue of Merchant law, the only law common to civilized Gor other than the rules and dictates of priest-kings, normally allows access to a Gorean Port.
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1 648 They had not directly experienced priest-kings, only the power of priest-kings.
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13 671 "Merchant law," I said, "is the only law common to many Gorean cities".
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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25 2308 It is like the English king who in the legend sat upon the beach and forbade the incoming waves to touch his robes".
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Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

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24 755 Most Goreans, save for occasional sacrifices, observations, donations to temples, and such, called for by the caste of Initiates, who claim to mediate between men and priest-kings, live their lives without much concern for priest-kings, and see...
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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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Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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12 28 In some cities the veil is prescribed by law for free women, as well as by custom and etiquette; and in most cities it is prohibited, by law, to slaves.
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 352 I thought that Misk, the priest-king, my friend, might have been fascinated, if puzzled, by this behavior.
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3 1084 "Pray to the priest-kings! Pray to the priest-kings!" wept a man.
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13 85 "But if they possess the power of priest-kings, why not call them priest-kings?" "Do you think they would mind, if I did not?" he asked, somewhat apprehensively.
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Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor

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19 475 Enough to spill a few drops from the first cup, a libation, honoring priest-kings, or perhaps, in the name of priest-kings, for what is involved here may have many names, what might hold sway over both men and priest-king 6
19 308 To be sure, perhaps a priest-king might show up and say, "No, that is not what I wanted, at all".
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19 309 But how would you know it was a priest-king? How would it establish its identity? Perhaps it could uproot trees, or kill people, or something.
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19 310 But, could priest-kings do such things? And, if so, was it only priest-kings who could do them? I expected that, here and there on this world, and doubtless on others, similar ceremonies might take place.
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19 311 The women of city A, for example, might be led to believe that it was the will of the priest-kings that they become the slaves of the men of city B, and the women of city B might be led to believe that it was the will of the priest-kings that t...
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19 401 What if, for example, as an outside possibility, but one they were not willing to discount, there might be some mysterious connection between the Initiates and the priest-kings? Why not, then, put a coin in the bowl, particularly if it were not too valuable a coin? As far...
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19 472 These would be neither the soldiers of priest-kings nor the foes of priest-kings.
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Book 27. (8 results) Prize of Gor

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27 3488 "For the love of priest-kings," cried Tersius Major, "give me something to drink, something to eat!" "You have broken the law of priest-kings," said Portus Canio.
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16 252 It is hot enough to burn the turban of a priest-king".
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27 754 "Have you ever seen a priest-king?" asked one of the strangers, of the fellow who had spoken.
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27 2057 "I am now the equal of a priest-king," said Tersius Major.
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27 2839 "I am the equal of a priest-king!" Then Tersius Major turned to the officer.
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22 501 It is both historical and contemporary; it is honored in custom and tradition; it is honored in practice; it is pervasive, societally and culturally; it is familiar, recognized and unquestioned; it is ingredient in the law and enforced with all the sanctions of the law.
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26 752 "Now I surely acknowledge that the confiscation was within the letter of the law, given the current sorry state of Ar and the ordinances of the occupation; and I acknowledge further that she has been out of my hands for more than the number of days which, in Merchant law,...
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3 35 It was large, deep and luxurious, the sort of bed on which a sovereign might have sported with concubines, or a virile king with his pet courtesans.
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Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

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2 308 Why then? For what? To probe the defenses of priest-kings, to test equipment, to train and season pilots and task squads, to enact a trial of courage, to fling before priest-kings some sort of an act of defiance, what? Where are the pries...
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57 2 "Dear Grendel!" he cried, "we had report that your plan had failed, and your command destroyed, wiped out, each and every one of our fellows, in the Vale of Destruction! Praise the priest-kings! You, and Cabot, and some others, Statius, I see, and some few, have escaped!"...
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79 543 "A king?" "More powerful than a king," said Cabot.
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80 290 Indeed, as earlier noted, this display, as certain others, is prescribed by Merchant law, which is a general, intermunicipal body of law regularly promulgated by the Merchant caste at the great fairs, and tending to be shared by disunited, often hostile, Gorean communitie...
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5 44 When necessary, we shall refer to the Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, not inappropriately we trust, by the name of a powerful war leader and king, Agamemnon.
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20 3 He refused a diadem of gold, as he felt himself no ruler, no king, no baron, no Ubar, no Administrator, or such.
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Book 29. (15 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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5 139 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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5 135 "You received this message," I said, "from the great priest-king, Lord Sarm?" "—Yes," he said.
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28 389 But how could someone or something think they had a hold over me, in virtue of one such as she, a false Ubara, now deposed, last seen bound on the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, kneeling at the feet of men, fearing apprehension, fittingly placed in the rag of a slave? How could anyone, or any...
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1 270 How could we have then failed to embrace, and therewith comply with the will and intrigues of priest-kings? Do they not use us as their pawns, their dupes, and instruments? Using our congruent natures how could we, so subtly manipulated, have failed to dance upon their st...
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4 83 Too, the caste of Initiates, which claims to mediate between humans and priest-kings, with their sacrifices, and such, would obviously prefer for priest-kings to remain as invisible and mysterious as possible.
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5 74 Who is to tell priest-kings who will be their instruments? Are you privy to their councils, can you read the mists, the fogs and clouds, which hover about the Sardar?" I supposed it was possible that this man might be an agent of priest-kings.
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5 191 Doubtless the agent of priest-kings would have resisted capture, and would have been quickly, brutally slain, it being presupposed that his life would be of small value, that he was the mere carrier of the message, a message presumably in the box, and the token, which the...
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5 283 Perhaps this had little to do with Tyros? Perhaps a round ship would raise less suspicion? Perhaps this was the very ship on which the agent of priest-kings might have had his passage? "I speak in the name of priest-kings," said Sullius Maximus...
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5 320 Presumably, too, assuming I was compliant to the will of priest-kings, I would now naively prosecute the machinations of Kurii, confident that it was in the cause of priest-kings that I labored.
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12 76 How could it be otherwise, for I was disembarked on the northern coast according to the exact coordinates of priest-kings, secret coordinates doubtless, was there met by two agents, doubtless also in the service of priest-kings, though that app...
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12 85 Too, why should they believe, in the first place, that I would wish to labor on behalf of priest-kings? Surely I had not been treated well by priest-kings.
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18 171 The second major theory proposed to explain the ban of priest-kings on body armor is that the priest-kings, in their benign concern for human beings, one of the diverse life forms with which they stocked the planet, thought the banning of body ...
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3 204 I had encountered the tarn again, years later, in the Barrens, and we had again been one, but at the end of local wars I had freed him again, that he might again take his place as the master of a mighty flock, that he might be again awing in broad, lonely skies, be again a prince amongst clouds, a l...
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23 174 It is said that in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
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23 175 So, too, it might be said that in the kingdom of the addled and staggering, he is king who is sober, swift, and purposeful.
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Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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2 200 How wise they were, and how powerful they were, how sacrosanct and holy they were, to have the ear of priest-kings, to have at their disposal the prayers, the spells, the rituals, the devotions, and sacrifices by means of which priest-kings mig...
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 168 How could such a world exist and not be known, or, I thought, is it known? Perhaps it is known, but as a guarded secret, official or governmental, to be kept from the general public? Is it the will of the priest-kings, the alleged lords of this world, I wondered, that the...
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10 92 "Agamemnon," I said, "was an ancient king, on Earth".
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Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
14 425 "Have you ever seen a priest-king?" "No," I said.
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14 373 You have heard of priest-kings, and Kurii?" "All have heard of priest- kings," I said.
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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 Fairs.
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Book 33. (8 results) Rebels of Gor

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27 178 "I know little of priest-kings, or their laws, or thoughts," said Haruki, "or that there are priest-kings, or that they think, but there are many ways to communicate quickly, to transmit even complex messages, explaining situation...
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45 93 For example, though the iron dragon clearly incorporates the technology of priest-kings, it just as clearly violates the laws of priest-kings, and would thus, in countering the effect of the cavalry, seem to tip a balance in favor...
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58 233 Did priest-kings favor Lord Temmu or Lord Yamada? Which, if either, was favored by Kurii? Surely both Kurii, or some Kurii, and priest-kings, or some priest-kings, had collaborated in the readying of, and the flight ...
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21 75 It was obvious, given the technologies involved in such a suspension of consciousness and such a methodology of transition that either the priest-kings or the Kurii, or both, had chosen to intervene in what might otherwise have been regarded as little more than a final ba...
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21 76 The possibility had suggested itself to some, a possibility which seemed plausible to me, that the Kurii, frustrated at the current failure of their designs, and the priest-kings, annoyed by probes, and predatory intrusions, might be willing to gamble for a world's surfac...
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21 78 If the dice fell in favor of the bestial Kurii, the priest-kings would surrender to their intrusion and habitation the surface of their world, and should the dice fall in favor of the priest-kings, the Kurii would withdraw to their steel worlds...
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45 89 "If the iron dragon utilizes gravitational technology, as you suggest, and that is within the provenance of priest-kings," said Pertinax, "then it is clear the priest-kings favor Yamada".
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45 95 "With so much at stake," I said, "in effect, a planet, for Kurii would not long be likely to peaceably share a world with priest-kings or any others, and surely priest-kings would realize the danger of admitting a technologically advanced, aggr...
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Book 34. (6 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter # Sentence # Quote Confidence
8 353 You are no more likely to see one than a priest-king".
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49 41 They bravely stand between the power, mystery, and formidableness of priest-kings and ordinary people, on whose behalf they will intercede, for a fee, with the priest-kings themselves.
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40 80 Whereas most Gorean cities share in, and respect, Merchant law, the only common law binding scattered, and often hostile, communities, there are no provisions in such law for securing protections against one party's appropriation of another party's methods, ...
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49 75 Merchant law, instituted at, and revised in, the Sardar Fairs, is the only common body of law on Gor.
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36 122 "That is the name," I said, "of a Greek king".
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36 123 "An Argive king," said Kurik, my master, "a name chosen doubtless with something in mind".
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