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The first Gorean words the Earth girl had been taught, and she had learned them in the pens of Samos of Port Kar, were "La Kajira," which means, "I am a slave girl."
Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 74 [b] I wept; a Kajira, I knew, was not even a servant; a Kajira was a slave girl; and the meaning of "La Kajira," which I had uttered to my captor was "I am a slave girl." Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 80 [b] |
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"Ute," repeated the short, dark-haired girl, pointing at herself.
Then she again pointed at me. "La?" she inquired. The man
cinched the strap on my body. It was snug. Then he stepped away from
me. I was harnessed. "La?" persisted the dark-haired girl, pointing
at me with her strapped hand. "La?"
"Elinor," I whispered. Book 7 Captive of Gor, pg 55 [C] |
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Needless to day, these movements, particularly when they intrude into more settled area, often bring the folk of the laagers into conflict with other peasants and, of course, shortly thereafter, townsfolk and city dwellers who depend on the peasants for their foodstuffs
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 43 [b] When groups are traveling together the wagons are often arranged in a circle, end to end, tongues inward, narrowing gaps between the "sections" of the improvised rampart, and chained together, the front axle of the next, the camp, and the draft animals, and any accompanying livestock, within the circle. This forms a wagon fort or laager. The circle contains more interior space than any other geometrical figure, so the camp is thus as large as possible, given the number of wagons. Too, as every point on the circumference is normally visible from, and equidistant from, the center, this facilitates defense, for example, the prompt and pertinent deployment of reserves." Book 23, Renegades: pg 7 [b] |
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"You will address me," she said, "as Lady Elicia, my mistress, or, as you have done, simply as Mistress, that sort of thing."
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 309 [b] |
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"Ah, yes, weapons," Kamchak was saying, "what shall it be the kaiila lance, a whip and bladed bole, perhaps the quiva?"
Book 4, Nomads: pg 123 [tLi] The lances of the Wagon Peoples are not couched. They are carried in the right fist, easily, and are flexible and light, used for thrusting, not the battering-ram effect of the heavy lances of Europe's High Middle Ages. Needless to say, they an be almost as swift and delicate in their address as a saber. The lances are black, cut from the poles of young tem trees. They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break. A loose loop of boskhide, wound twice about the right fist, helps to retain the weapon in hand-to-hand combat. It is seldom thrown. Book 4, Nomads: pg 15 [C] Too, there are five riders of the kaiila, with kaiila lances, between the kailiauk and the dark guest, and the man. Book 17, Savages: pg 42 [b] |
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In a minute the rider appeared in view - a fine, bearded warrior with a golden helmet and a tharlarion lance.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 115 [b] It is to be distinguished in particular from the longer, heavier tharlarion lance, designed for use from tharlarionback, and often used with a lance rest, and the smaller, thicker stabbing lances used by certain groups of pedestrian nomads. Book 17, Savages: pg 42 [b] |
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On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down in the
saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top
of which was placed a dried tospit... Such a thrust was worth two points for us. There was a thunder of kaiila paws on the worn turf and Conrad, with his red lance, nipped the tospit neatly from the tip of the wand, the lance point barely passing into it, he having drawn back at the last instant. "Well done!" I called to him. My own thrust had been full thrust, accurate enough but rather heavily done, in war, such a thrust might have lost me the lance, leaving it in the body of an enemy. His thrust was clearly, I acknowledged, worth three points. Book 4, Nomads: pg 59 [tLi] Albrecht pointed his lance at me. "You are challenged," he said. "Lance and tospit." "We have finished with that," I said. Book 4, Nomads: pg 79 [tLi] |
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In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer andlang gim.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 311 [C] |
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To the Goreans it is always, simply, The Language, as though
there were no others, and those who do not speak it are regarded
immediately as barbarians. This sweet, fierce, liquid speech
is the common bond that tends to hold together the Gorean world.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 52 [b] |
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Oddly enough, one of the expressions in the tongue of Gor for our sun was Lar-Torvis, which means The Central Fire...
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 28 [C] |
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On the throne itself there sat a woman, proud, lofty in haughty dignity,
garbed regally in majestic robes of golden cloth, wearing a mask
not of silver but of pure gold, carved like the others in the
image of a beautiful woman. The eyes behind the glittering mask
of gold regarded me. No one need tell me that I stood in the
presence of Lara, Tatrix of Tharna.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 90 [tLi] |
To the Earthan, Lara may be likened to many of the walled city-states of ancient Earth Greece. Lara's citizens are noted for their toughness, and extreme independance even by Gorean standards. In Lara, the reward for declaring oneself Ubar is death, usually by slicing or some other creative, festive means.
Lara has a history of being a shelter for various refugees of the incessant Gorean wars, and that there are many Inns in the city, although (of course) few as fine as the Gor-famous tLi.
Lara and the city of Ar have a history of official non-belligerance, or lessened bellecosity (at least), and that the chief concern of the Arrans, indeed, of the Larans themselves, were raiding forces of Cos, and the river pirates who preyed on all alike.
One may speculate as to why the Arrans showed disinterest in attacking Lara, beyond strategic reasons. Larans are known for being eccentric (to say the least); could it be that the Arrans, who view their City as the Queen of Gor, were concerned lest they somehow "catch" whatever it is that makes the Larrans so... odd?
Surprisingly enough, Lara is the birthplace and home of Oryx, Mapmaker and Explorer of some note.
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"Lara!" she cried. "Lara!" This was a town in the Salerian Confederation at
the confluence of Vosk and Olni.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 15 [tLi] His act, thus though perhaps one of dubious propriety, and accordingly not one he would care to publicize in the streets of Ar, was neither treasonous nor illegal. It did, however, Lara being a member of the Salerian Confederation, suggest some economic desperation. Being denied the markets of Vonda, and perhaps of Port Olni and Ti, it was natural I supposed for Oneander to turn to Lara. Book 15, Rogue: pg 16 [tLi] I did not understand the meaning of his remark. It did not, I gathered, pertain to the women of Vonda. It would be difficult to get them to the river markets, which lay beyond Lara, down the Vosk, and higher prices, presumable, could be obtained for them in the markets of the south. Book 15, Rogue: pg 36 [tLi] |
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The Inn was that of Strobuis, in Lara, at the
confluence of the Olni and Vosk. It was crowded with refugees from Bonda.
Many hundreds had fled from Vonda and most had taken the river southward,
paying highly for their fares on the varities of river craft, barges, skiffs,
river galleys and even coracles, which had brought them to Lara.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 38 [tLi] In Lara there were many refugees from Vonda and its vicinity. Book 15, Rogue: pg 43 [tLi] They had demonstrated that the could have destroyed Lara, but they had not seen fit to do so. This was taken as an expression of disinterest on the part of Ar in all-out warfare with the Salerian Confederation. Also, of course in the future, this action might tend to divide the confederation in its feelings toward Ar. When it had become clear, incidentally, that Ar had for most practical purposes, spared Lara, the troops of Lara, not bothering to join with those of Port Olni and Ti, had returned to their city. There would now be sentiment in Lara favoring Ar. This would give Ar political leverage at the confluence of the Olni and Vosk, a strtegic point if Cos should ever choose to move in force eastward along the Vosk. Lara was the pivot between the Salerian Confederation and the Vosk towns. Book 15, Rogue: pg 60 [tLi] |
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I had gone from Lara to White Water using the barge canal, to circumvent the
rapids, and from thence to Tancred's Lansing. I had later voyaged down river
to Iskander, Forestport, and Ar's Station.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 62 [tLi] "They fear that their post will be subject to attack?" "Yes," I said, drying my face with a towel. "and if Ar's Station should be destroyed, the eastern river, between Tafa and Lara would lie much as the mercy of the raiders." Book 15, Rogue: pg 120 [tLi] The headquarters of the Vosk League is located in the city of Victoria. I suppose there are special historical reasons for this, for Victoria is not centrally located on the river, say, between the delta to the west and the entry of the Olni into the Vosk on the east, which point, incidentally, is controlled by the city of Lara, a member of the Salerian's Confederation. Book 23, Renegades: pg 34 [tLi] |
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The larl is a predator, clawed and fanged, quite large, often
standing seven feet at the shoulder. I think it would be fair to say
that it is substantially feline; at any rate its grace and sinuous
power remind me of the smaller but similarly jungle cats of my old
world. The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet
across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull
something of the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred
and the pupils of the eyes like the cat's and unlike the viper's,
can range from knifelike slits in the broad daylight to dark,
inquisitive moons in the night.
The pelt of the larl is normally a tawny red or sable black. The black larl, which is predominately nocturnal, is maned, both male and female. The red larl, which hunts whenever hungry, regardless of the hour, and is the more common variety, possesses no mane. Females of both varieties tend generally to be slightly smaller than the males, but are quite as aggressive and sometimes even more dangerous, particularly in the late fall and winter of the year when they are likely to be hunting for their cubs. Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 18 [b] |
larl, black fauna predominately nocturnal larl which is sable coated and maned both male and female. [T]larma victual two varieties of larma are described: one, segmented and juicy, and the other, hard-shelled, but with delicious and very juicy fruit about a single seed; sometimes called the pit fruit; sometimes sliced and fried, and served with browned-honey sauce; offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slavegirl to her master is a silent plea for the girl to be raped [pyxi{OcL}/tLi]
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The black larl, which is predominantly nocturnal, is maned, both male and female.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 18 [b]
larl, red fauna predominately day hunting larl which is tawny-red coated and has no mane in either male or female. [T]
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The red larl, which hunts whenever hungry, regardless of the hour, and is the more common variety, possesses no mane.... I had once killed a male red larl in the Voltai Range within pasangs of the city of Ar.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 18 [b]
larl, white fauna seen in icy mountains of the Sardar they are the largest of the big cats standing 8 feet; upper canines extending below their jaws very similar to saber-toothed tiger; long tails are tufted at the ends. [T]
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I was struck with wonder, though I was careful to keep beyond the range of their chains, for I had never seen white larls before. They were gigantic beasts, superb specimens, perhaps eight feet at the shoulder. Their upper canine fangs, like daggers mounted in their jaws, must have been at least a foot in length and extended well below their jaws in the manner of ancient sabre-toothed tigers. The four nostril slits of each animal were flared and their great chests lifted and fell with the intensity of their excitement. Their tails, long and tufted at the end, lashed back and forth.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 22 [b]
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Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to kneel before the
master and put her head down and lift her arms, offering him
fruit, usually a larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 27 [b] The larma is luscious. It has a rather hard shell but the shell is brittle and easily broken. Within, the fleshy endocarp, the fruit, is delicious and very juicy. Sometimes, when a woman is referred to as a 'larma,' it is suggested that her hard or frigid exterior conceals a rather different sort of interior, one likely to be quite delicious. Book 23, Renegades: pg 437 [C] I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This is a firm, single-seeded, applelike fruit. It is quite unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, and perhaps more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone. Book 20, Players: pg 267 [b] |
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The hunter pulled a pelt from the bundle of furs he carried. It was snowy white, and thick, the winter fur of a two-stomached snow lart. It almost seemed to glisten. The slaver's man appreciated its value. Such a pelt could sell in Ar for half a silver tarsk. He took the pelt and examined it. The snow lart hunts in the sun. The food in the second stomach can be held almost indefinitely. It is filled in the fall and must last the larl through the winter night, which lasts months, the number of months depending on the latitude of his individual territory. It is not a large animal. It is about ten inches high and, weighs between eight and twelve pounds. It is mammalian, and has four legs. It eats bird's eggs and preys on the leem, a small arctic rodent, some five to ten ounces in weight, which hibernates during the winter.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 74 [b/nineve{Rem}] |
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As he spoke, my father often referred to the planet Gor as the Counter-Earth, taking the name from the writings of the Pythagoreans who had first speculated on the existence of such a body. Oddly enough, one of the expressions in the tongue of Gor for our sun was Lar-Torvis, which means The Central Fire, another Pythagorean expression, except that it had not been, as I understand it, originally used by the Pythagoreans to refer to the sun but to another body. The more common expression for the sun was Tor-tu-Gor, which means Light Upon the Home Stone. There was a sect among the people that worshipped the sun, but it was insignificant both in numbers and power when compared with the worship of the Priest-Kings ...
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 28 [C] |
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This was the position of "Last Girl," which, fittingly, not counting the Hobarts, she would occupy, being the newest girl on the coffle.
Book 17, Savages: pg 240 [nineve{Rem}] |
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Once Last Spear casts his weapon he may not throw himself to the ground. If he should, and any of his comrades survive, they will slay him. But this seldom occurs for the Gorean hunters fear cowardice more than the clwas and fangs of larls. Last Spear must remain standing, and if the beast still lives, receive its charge with only his drawn sword. He does not hurl himself to the ground in order that he will remain conspicuously in the larl's field of vision and thus be the object of its wounded, maddened onslaught. It is thus that, should the spears miss their
mark, he sacrifices his life for his companions who will, while the larl attacks him, make good their escape.
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 20 [b] |
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The lineaments of my face could now be detected beneath the veil of the citizeness. The last veil, in its sheerness, and transparency, is little more than a token.
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 10 [C] |
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I smote my thigh, laughing, in the Gorean fashion, so preposterous were the urgent words of the lovely, kneeling slave.
Book 15, Rogue: pg 111 [tLi] |
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He was bound, traveling over the hills and meadowlands east and north of Ko-ro-ba, for the city of Laura, which lies on the banks of the Laurius river, some two hundred pasangs inland from the coast of the sea, called Thassa. Laura is a small trading city, a river port, whose buildings are largely of wood, consisting mostly it seems of warehouses and taverns. It is a clearing house for many goods, wood, salt, fish, stone, fur and slaves
Book 7, Captive: pg 59 [b] |
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The Laurius is a winding, long, gently, slow river. It does
not have the breadth and current which are the terrors of the titanic
Vosk farther to the south, well below Ko-ro-ba, though well above Ar...
Book 7, Captive: pg 59 [b] |
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In a moment I had left the building, pulling the captive behind me, her head down at my waist, in leading position.
Book 21, Mercenaries: pg 399 [b] Her master seized her from the circle then and hurried her from the light, her head down, held by the hair, at his left hip. This is a common leading position for female slaves being conducted short distances. As the master holds her hair in the left hand, it leaves his right hand, commonly the sword hand, free. Book 25, Magicians: pg 46 [b] |
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Learning was closely associated, even immediately, with reward and,
punishment. Sometimes, months later, even when not under the switch,
a girl would, upon a mistake in grammar or vocabulary, wince, as
though expecting a fresh sting of the switch. Goreans do not coddle
their slave girls. This is one of the first lessons a girl learns.
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 5 [tLi] |
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I then leashed her. "Now you will not run away," I said.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 195 [b] The common Gorean leash, incidentally, unlike the simple strap I was using, has a lock snap and closes either about a collar or a collar ring. It might be mentioned that there are also such devices as wrist leashes and ankle leashes. Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 371 [tLi/nineve{Rem}] |
leash, choke noun leash that constricts if the leashed slave struggles; favored by Panther Girls [tLi]Leather Workers, Caste of caste Mentioned in the Scrolls
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Another girl snapped a choke leash on my throat, twisting it, so that I almost strangled. As I opened my mouth, gasping for air, a wadding was thrust into it by another girl. Then I was gagged. The pressure on my throat then eased.
Book 7, Captive: pg 118 [tLi]
The girl bound my ankles cruelly, using the end of the choke leash, making the strap taut between my throat and ankles. My head was strapped back. I could barely breathe.
Book 7, Captive: pg 123 [tLi]
leash, hair position hair confined into a ponytail with a ribbon or wooden fillet, so called because it can be used as a method of seizure and control by the Master. [T]
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Some masters like the ponytail hairdo on a slave, which, on Gor, is usually spoken of as the "leash," or "hair leash," for, by it, a girl may be conveniently seized and controlled.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 112 [b]
leashed-legs tie noun a standard submission tie; the kneeling girl has the leash, attached to her collar, passed down the front of her body and between her legs to bind her crossed ankles together. [T]
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"Put her in the wagon," said Kenneth, "kneeling position, leashed-legs tie."
"Yes, Master," I said. Telitsia looked up at me. Her hands were bound behind her back. There were tears in her eyes. She lifted her lips to mine. I kissed her. I then lifted her into the wagon, kneeling her on the boards. Her breasts were loose and sweet within her small garment. It was high on her thighs. I then, using the leash, passing it before her body and between her legs, crossed and bound her ankles, thus fastening her in that same kneeling position in which I had originally placed her. She could not rise and the fastening on her collar kept her head down. It is a standard submission tie on Gor for a female slave.
Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 244 [b]
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It was there that she had been purchased by Baus, of the Leather Workers.
Book 7, Captive: pg 234 its libraries, its records and files; its cubicles for Smiths, Bakers, Cosmeticians, Bleachers, Dyers, Weavers, and Leather Workers. |
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Once i shouted in pain. Two fangs had struck into my calf. An, ost I thought! But the fangs held fast, and I heard the popping, sucking sound of the bladder like seed pods of a leech plant, as they expanded and contracted like small ugly lungs. The leech plant strikes like a cobra and fastens two hollow thorns into its victim. The chemical responses of the bladder like pods produce a mechanical pumping action, and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it.
Book 2, Outlaw: pg 33 [C] Normally such plants are cleared from the sides of the roads and from inhabited areas. They are primarily dangerous to children and small animals, but a grown man who might lose his footing among them would not be likely to survive. Book 2, Outlaw: pg 34 [C] As you look up, you catch a glimpse of an urt scurrying beneath the safety of the leech plant, unknowingly sealing his fate as the plant pierces its skin with the long thorns and begins its meal of blood, an omen mayhaps of what is to come? Website of the Gretuk Dur Cavern, used by permission |
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"But there are many marks on your body," she chided.
"From various things," I said, "from blows, from ropes, from harness, from the slash of rence, from the bites and stings of insects, from the fastening places of marsh leeches." Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 96 [b] "The marsh leech is edible," I said. "At one time I did not know that." Book 24, Vagabonds: pg 99 [b] |
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[The snow larl] eats bird's eggs and preys on the leem, a small
arctic rodent, some five to ten ounces in weight, which hibernates
during the winter.... The hunter drew forth from the bundle of furs two tiny pelts of the leem. These were brown, the summer coats of the animals. Book 12, Beasts: pg 52 [b] |
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These are commonly reserved by the red savages for their white female slaves. They wore single-position leg-spreaders. One ankle, by thongs threaded through a pierced end, is fastened tightly to one end of the sturdy spreader. The other ankle is then pulled to a corresponding position at the other end of the pole where, by means of another thong passed through another hole, drilled at that point in the spreader, it is fastened securely in place.
Book 17, Savages: pg 162 [C] |
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Lelts are often attracted to the salt rafts, largely by the
vibrations in the water, picked up by their abnormally developed
lateral-line protrusions, and their fernlike craneal vibration
receptors, from the cones and poles. Too, though they are blind, I
think either the light, or the heat, perhaps, from our lamps, draws
them. The tiny, eyeless heads will thrust from the water, and the
fernlike filaments at the side of the head will open and lift,
orienting themselves to one or the other of the lamps. The lelt is
commonly five to seven inches in length. It is white, and
long-finned. It swims slowly and smoothly, its fins moving the water
very little, which apparently contributes to its own concealment in a
blind environment and makes it easier to detect the vibrations of its
prey, any of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures,
predominantly isopods. The brain of the lelt is interesting,
containing an unusually developed odor-perception center and two
vibration-reception centers. Its organ of balance, or hidden "ear,"
is also unusually large, and is connected with an unusually large
balance center in its brain. Its visual center, on the other hand, is
stunted and undeveloped, a remnant, a vague genetic memory of an
organ long discarded in its evolution.... The gills of the lelt are located at the lower sides of its jaw, not on the sides of its head, as is common in open-water fish. Book 10, Tribesmen: pg 247 [b] |
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"What counts on Earth as the liberation of women." I said, "is conformance
to a certain stereotype, an aggressive, man-like, Lesbian image,
one alien to, and offensive to, most normal women."
Book 11: Slave Girl, pg 199 [tLi] How could I speak of Earth to them? I did not want them to think me mad, or a liar. Could they believe a world might exist where men, shouting political slogans, vied with one another to surrender their dominance, hastening gleefully to their own castration? Could such a world be welcomed by any save Lesbians, and men who were not men? Truth and political convenience, I thought, do not always coincide. Book 11: Slave Girl, pg 199 [tLi] It is not clear, historically, whether the values of slaves were imposed on the Waniyanpi by their masters, or whether the Waniyanpi inventer their ethos to dignify and enoble their own weakness. It may be mentioned that, interestingly, since the Waniyanpi repudiate nature, and natural relationships, that there is in the compounds, an unusual incidence of homosexuality, both of the male and female varieties. This is perhaps a natural enough development considering the conditioned obstacles placed in the way of more usual relationships. It also fits in better with the values of Sameness. To be sure, officially the Waniyanpi disparage all sex, despite the relative countenance tacitly afforded by their ethos to the homosexual relationship. Book 18: Blood Brothers, pg 156 [tLi] |
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"Lesha," snapped the second officer to the blond girl. She spun from
facing him, and lifted her chin, turning her head to the left,
placing her wrists behind her, as though for snapping them into slave bracelets.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 76 [C] "Lesha!" he said. Immediately, responsive to this command, I flung my wrists behind me, separated by some two inches, and lifted my chin, my head turned to the left. I felt slave bracelets flung, snapping shut, on my wrists. I was braceleted. In another moment I was leashed. Book 22, Dancers: pg 365 [C] |
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Another useful source of water is the liana vine. One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion to the vine. The second cut, made a foot or so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 310 [C] |
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I withdrew some of the lice, the size of marbles, which tend
to infest the wild tarns, and slapped them roughly into the mouth of
the tarn, wiping them off on his tongue. I did this again and again,
and the tarn stretched out his neck.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 144 [b] |
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She can beg of him... an enslavement ceremony, in which she proclaims
herself, and becomes, his slave.... If a woman fears to do this she
may, on an experimental basis, resort to limited self-contracting, in
which her documents will contain stated termination dates. Thus, by
her own free will, she becomes a slave for a specific period, ranging
usually from an evening to a year. The woman enters into this
arrangement freely; she cannot, of course, withdraw from it in the
same way. The reason for this is clear. As soon as the words are
spoken, or her signature is placed on the pertinent document, or
documents, she is no longer a free person. She is then only a slave,
an animal, no longer with any legal powers whatsoever. She is, then,
until the completion of the contractual period, unto the expiration
date of the arrangement, totally subject to the will of her master.
Book 18, Blood Brothers: pp 101-102 [Lady Viviane/tLi] |
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"Drink," he said, offering me the cup.
I looked at the rim of the cup. I shook with terror. "A slave girl dares not touch with her lips the rim of that cup which has been touched with the lips of her master," I whispered. "Excellent," said Verna. "She was trained in the pens of Ko-ro-ba," said Rask of Treve. Book 7, Captive: pg 302 [tLi] |
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"There are one hundred and eleven basic shades of slave lipstick," said Sucha. "Much depends on the mood of the
master."
Book 11, Slave Girls: pg 199 [b] "Does Master enjoy my taste?" she asked. "The lipstick is flavored," I said. "I know," she said. "It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros," I said. "I do not know what the flavor is," she said, "but it is lovely, is it not?" Book 12, Beasts: pg 349 [b] |
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In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible
variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the
common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some
varieties of parrot, and many more.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 311 [C] To the oases caravans bring various goods, for example, rep-cloth, embroidered cloths, silks, rugs, silver, gold, jewelries, mirrors, kailiauk tusk, perfumes, hides, skins, feathers, precious woods, tools, needles, worked leather goods, salt, nuts and spices, jungle birds prized as pets, weapons, rough woods, sheets of tin and copper, the tea of Bazi, wool from the bounding Hurt, decorated, beaded whips, female slaves, and many other forms of merchandise. Book 10, Tribesman: pg 38 [la`dina{Seij}/tLi] |
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Behind and about him had swirled a gigantic cloak of yellow and red feathers, from the crested lit and the fruit tindel, brightly plumaged birds of the rain forest.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 236 [tLi] In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrot, and many more Book 13, Explorers: pg 311 [b] |
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The liqueurs of Turia are usually regarded as the best, but I
think this is largely a matter of taste. Those of Cos and Ar, and of
certain other cities, are surely very fine.
Book 19, Kajira: pg 406 [C] |
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She wore the briefly skirted, sleeveless slave livery common
in the northern cities of Gor; the livery was yellow and split to the
cord that served as her belt; about her throat she wore a matching
collar, yellow enameled over steel.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 7 [C] |
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Save for armed combat, lance and tospit with the living wand is the most
dangerous of the sports of the Wagon Peoples. In this sport, as might be expected, one's own slave must stand for one. It is essentially the same sport as lancing the tospit from the wand, save that the fruit is held in the mouth of a girl, who is slain should she move or in any way withdraw from the lance. Needless to say many a slave girl has been injured in this cruel sport. Book 4, Nomad: pg 79 [tLi] |
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"Lo Rask," said he. "Rarius. Civitatis Trevis." "I am Rask," he said, "of the caste of warriors, of the city of Treve."
Book 7, Captive: pg 266 [C] |
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'Lo Sardar,' it said. 'I am a Priest-King.'
Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 76 [b] Had the translator been turned on, I would have heard 'Lo Sardar' - 'I am a Priest-King'. Book 3, Priest-Kings: pg 220 [b] |
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Most doors giving entry into a compartment, or set of compartments, on Gor do, however, have locks, generally hand-crafted, highly ornate locks, usually set in the center of the door and controlling a long bolt.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 50 [b] |
lock, combination noun an infrequently found lock, commonly consisting of a series of lettered rings concealing a bolt [tLi]long ship noun a swift, maneuverable ship having 2 rudders, 1 removable lateen-rigged mast, and a keel-to-beam ratio of 8:1; often used in military actions; some are fitted
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Also, combination locks are not unknown, but they are infrequently found. The most common combination lock consists of a set of lettered rings which conceal a bolt. When the letters are properly aligned the bolt may be withdrawn.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 52 [tLi]
lock, disk noun a type of lock in which moving disks, rather than pins are used in the mechanism [tLi]
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There are a number of other forms of lock also found upon occasion, a common variety being the disk lock in which moving disks, rather than pins are used.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 51 [b]
lock gag noun a gag that locks onto a girl, with rounded curved metal bars about ¼″ in diameter, locking by means of a ratchet and pawl arrangement behind the slave's neck [tLi]
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She was naked except for her collar and a leather-and-metal lock gag. Her mouth was closed. I saw the curved metal bars, rounded, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, emerging from the sides of her mouth. By means of a ratchet and pawl arrangement the device is fitted to the individual girl. It locks behind the back of the neck It cannot be removed, even though the girl's hands are free.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 272 [b]
lock, knife noun a lock which, wneh tampereed with, releases a blade, or several of them, with great force [tLi]
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Some locks, on the compartments of rich persons, or on the storehouses of merchants, the treasuries of cities, and so on, are knife locks or poison locks; the knife lock, when tampered with, releases a blade, or several of them, with great force, sometimes from behind the individual at the lock. On the other hand, knife locks are seldom effective against an individual who knows what to look for.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 52 [tLi]
lock, metal insert noun lock used in Kurian collars [tLi]
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The collars were of thick leather, with metal insert locks, flat metal bolts slipping, locking, into spring catches; when closed, two rectangular metal plates adjoined...
Book 9, Marauder: pg 155 [b]
lock, notched beam noun a simple lock, opened by a heavy sickle-like key, giving very poor security. The keys are quite heavy, carried over the shoulder, and can even function as weapons [tLi]
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Another form of lock, providing perhaps even less security, is the notched beam lock which may be opened by a heavy sickle-like key which is inserted through a hole in the door, fitted into the notch, and then rotated to the left or right, depending on whether the door is being locked or opened. These keys are quite heavy and are carried over the shoulder, and can, if necessary, even function as weapons.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 52 [tLi]
lock, padlock noun a common lock used on Gor [tLi]
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Padlocks, it might be mentioned, are common on Gor.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 52 [tLi]
lock, pin-tumbler noun a common lock used on Gor n which the locking is secured by a set of heavy pins extending into the lock plug [tLi]
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Most of these locks, interestingly, though hand-crafted, are of the pin-tumbler variety, in which the locking is secured by a set of heavy pins extending into the lock plug; when the key is inserted the pins, of various lengths, are lifted to the surface of the lock plug, freeing it, so that when the key turns the plug may rotate, thereby moving the bolt.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 51 [b]
lock, pit noun a dangerous lock used on Gor where, if tampered with, a trap drops away sending the unwary into a pit, wich may contain vertical knives, poisonous reptiles [tLi]
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Another form of lock difficult to guard against is the pit lock, because of the natural crevices in Gorean tiling commonly found in corridors of cylinders; when tampered with a trap falls away beneath the individual, dropping him to a pit below, usually containing knives fixed in stone, but upon occasion osts, or half-starved sleen or water tharlarion, sometimes, however, the pit may be simply a smooth-sided capture pit, so that the individual may later be interrogated and tortured at length.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 52 [tLi]
lock, poison noun a dangerous lock used on Gor where, if tampered with, tiny pins coated with kanda-root (see kanda) paste shoot out to poison the unaware thief [tLi]
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Much more dangerous is the poison lock, because the opening through which the tiny pins, usually coated with a paste formed from kanda root, can emerge can be extremely small, almost invisible to the eye, easy to overlook in the crevices and grillwork of the commonly heavy, ornate Gorean lock.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 52 [tLi]
lock, ring noun a low-security padlock with rotating metal disks that, when fitted together and properly aligned, permit the free extraction of the bolt. [tLi]
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The box, about a foot wide and deep, and two feet long, floating, heavy, almost entirely submerged, with an ornate ring lock, rubbed against the side of the canoe. By its metal handles I drew it into the canoe. With the back of one of the heavy pangas I struck loose the ring lock. There were varieties of ring locks. This one was a combination padlock, in which numbers, inscribed on rotating metal disks, fitted together, are to be properly aligned, this permitting the free extraction of the bolt. This, as is the case with most single-alignment ring locks, was not a high-security lock. The materials in the box, I was confident, would not be of great value. The numbers on the lock were in Gorean.
Book 13, Explorers: pg 292 [nineve{Rem}/tLi]
lock, sleeve noun a secure lock used on Gor wa sleeve that prevents insertion of a pick, and a cone that must be unscrewed to insert the key [tLi]
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"They cannot be picked," said Sucha. "They are sleeve locks. The sleeve prevents the direct entry of a wire or pick. Too, within the sleeve there is a plug, a rounded, metal cone, which must be unscrewed before the key can be inserted. A wire or pick could not turn the cone."
Book 11, Slavegirl: pg 258 [b]
lock, wooden noun a common lock used on Gor; provides poor security [tLi]
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On Gor, though most locks are of metal, wooden locks are not altogether unknown. In the most common variety there are two sets of matching pins, one fixed on a wooden spatula like key and the other set, movable, falls into the bolt, securing it. With the key placed under the bolt, and pressed upward, the movable pins are lifted over the bolt, permitting its movement. This form of lock, however, as one might suspect, provides a poor sort of security, for the pins may be lifted individually by tiny sticks wedged in the holes until the bolt is free.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 52 [tLi]
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as ram-ships
These five ships, pertinent to council membership, may be either the round ships, with deep holds of rmerchandise, or the long ships, ram-ships, ships of war. Both are predominantly oared vessels, but the round ship carries a heavier, permanent rigging, and supports more sail, being generally two-masted. The round ship, of course, is not round, but it does have a much wider beam to its length of keel, say, about one to six, whereas the ratios of the war galleys are about one to eight.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 127 [C] |
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The hall of Ivar Forkbeard was a longhouse. It was about one
hundred and twenty feet Gorean in length. Its walls formed of turf
and stone, were curved and thick, some eight feet or more in
thickness. It is oriented north and south. Thls reduces its exposure
to the north wind, which is partlcularly important in the Torvaldsland winter.
Book 9, Marauders: pg 91 [b] |
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Then, soberly, though I acknowledged it as a superstition, I
performed the Gorean ritual of looking into the blood. With
my cupped hands I drank a mouthful of blood, and then,
holding another in my hands, I waited for the next flash of lightning. One looks into the blood in one's cupped hands. It is said that if one sees one's visage black and wasted one will die of disease, if one sees oneself torn and scarlet one will die in battle, if one sees oneself old and white haired, one will die in peace and leave children. Book 2, Outlaw: pg 38 [b] |
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"Can you not wait to be shackled and thrown into the loot pits with other women, to await the collar and brand?" inquired Marcus.
Book 25, Magicians: pg 190 [b] |
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The Love Dance of the Newly Collared Slave Girl has many variations, in the different cities of Gor, but the common theme is that the girl dances her joy that she will soon lie in the arms of a strong master.
Book 6, Raiders: pg 115 [tLi] |
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The girl looked at him gratefully and she, with the others, rose to
her feet and to the astounding barbarity of the music performed the
savage love dances of the Kassars, the Paravaci, the Kataii, the Tuchuks.
Book 4, Nomads: pg 98 [b] |
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On the other hand, the single greatest period for the sale of slaves is the five days of the Fifth Passage Hand, coming late in the summer, called jointly, the Love Feast.
Book 5, Assassin: pg 193 [C] |
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Then with his own hand he throws upon the stone floor of his chamber luxurious love furs, perhaps from the larl itself, and commands her to them.
Book 1, Priest-Kings: pg 68 [b] |
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...sooner or later, masters tended to find girls who were, from their
point of view, superb slaves, apd girls tended to find men who were,
from their point of view, marvels as masters. It is a beautiful
moment when the woman realizes that the man who owns her is her love
master, and the man realizes that the girl he bought, looking up at
him, tears in her eyes, is his love slave.
Book 12, Beasts: pg 236 [b] |
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I hoped that eventually, however, she might come into the keeping of
a single master, to whom she would be a love slave. I thought that
there was something in the slave now called "Claudia" a precious,
vulnerable, yearning love slave.
Book 23, Renegades: pp 392-393 [tLi] "Yes, Master," she said. "It is what I am, and want to be. I hope only that someday I may have a private master, a love master, to whom I may be his devoted and obedient love slave." Book 23, Renegades: pg 438 [tLi] "Yes," she cried. "I am your love slave! I have known this from the first time you put me to your feet! If you weighted and wrapped me with a thousand chains and a thousand locks they could not hold me more helplessly than the love I bear you! Alas, I have confessed! Kill me now, if you will!" she put down her head, sobbing. Book 22, Dancer: pg 403 [rusty{tLi}] |
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It is a beautiful moment when the woman realizes that the man who
owns her is her love master, and the man realizes that the girl he
bought, looking up at him, tears in her eyes, is his love
slave.
Then the only danger is that he will weaken. One must be strong with a love slave. If one truly loves her, he will be that strong. The slavery in which a love slave is kept is an unusually deep slavery. She must serve him with a perfection which would stun and startle other girls; if she should fail in any way, even in so small a way that the lapse would be overlooked in the case of another wench, or bring perhaps a mild word of reprimand, she is likely to be tied at the slave ring and whipped; there is a good reason for this; she is, you see, a love slave; no woman can be more in a man's power; and with no woman must he be stronger. Book 12, Beasts: pg 236 [tLi] |
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The institution of Love War is an ancient one among the Turians and the Wagon Peoples. The games of the Love War are celebrated every spring
Book 4, Nomads: pg 115 [C] As I knew, not just any girl, any more than just any warrior, could participate in the games of the Love War. Only the most beautiful were eligible, and only the most beautiful of these could be chosen. Book 4, Nomads: pg 117 [C] |
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I wondered, however, if the Second Knowledge, that of the intellectuals, might not be as carefully tailored to preclude inquiry on their level as the First Knowledge apparently was
to preclude inquiry on the level of the Lower Castes.
Book 1, Tarnsman: pg 42 [b] The crowd, mostly, was an excited and motely assortment of low caste males, but, here and there, there were veiled women amongst them, generally these, too, oflow caste Book 14, Fighting Slave: pg 210 [b] |
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"Are you a Luck Girl?" I asked.
She shrugged. "I am a female slave," she said. I smiled. Many Goreans regard the sight of a female slave as good luck. Certainly, at the very least, they are joys to look upon. Book 16, Tribesmen: pg 61 [C] |
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It was similar to the tiny lung fish I had seen earlier on the river, those little creatures clinging to the half-submerged roots of shore trees
Book 13, Explorers: pg 384 [b] |
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To my right were the lines of the Aretai. The Aretai themselves, of course, with black kaffiyeh and white agal cording, held their center. Their right flank was held by the Luraz and the Tashid. Their left flank was held by the Raviri, and four minor tribes, the Ti, the Zevar, the Arani and the Tajuks
Book 10, Tribesman: pg 301 [C] |
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Such devices, of course, but without the authenticity and ultimate
surrender, are often resorted to by "lure girls," slaves who
serve as bait for captains who need crewmen, masters of work gangs,
and such.
Book 22, Dancer: pg 244 [b] |
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At the mouth of the Laurius, where it empties into Thassa, is found
the free port of Lydius, administered by the merchants, an important
Gorean caste. Goods, primarily rough goods like tools, crude metal
and cloth are shipped from this port to many islands and coastal cities.
Book 7, Captive: pg 59 [C] |
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