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Gorean Question,and Qoutes
Topic Started: Jul 28 2010, 08:17 PM (2,642 Views)
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TARL CABOT THE MAIN CHARACTORE IN MANY OF THE
GOREAN BOOKS GRADUATED FROM A PRESTIGIOUS
UNIVERSITY IN ENGLAND FROM WHICH COLLEGE DID HE
GRADUATE?

"surprisingly enough i managed to gain enterances to
the university of oxford but i shall not choose to embarrass
my college by entering its somewhat too revered name
in this narrative i graduated decently having failed to astound
either myself or my tutors"

TARNSMANS OF GOR PAGE 2
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WHILE ON EARTH BEFORE BEING BROUGHT TO GOR TARL
GOES FOR A HIKE IN THE WOODS WHILE CAMPING HE FINDS
AN METAL ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO HIM HE MAKES MANY ATTEMPTS
TO OPEN IT WITHOUT SUCCESS HOW DOES HE FINALLY GET IT OPEN?

"I looked closely at the lettering it resembeld some now outdated
english scrip,but i knew too little about such things to hazard much
of a guess at the date. something about the lettering reminded me of
that on a colonial charter a page of which had been photocopied for an
illustration in one of my books,seventeenth century perhaps?the lettering itself
seemed to be inset in the envelope bonded in its metallic structure i could
find no seam or flap in the envelope i tried to crease the envelope with my thumbnail
but failed.feeling rather foolish i took out the can opener i had used on the chili can and
attempted to force the metal point through the envelope light as the envelope seemed to be
it resisted the point as if i were trying to open an anvil i leaned on the can opener with
both arms pressing down with all my weight the point of the can opener bent into a right angle
but the envelope had not been scratched i handled the envelope carefully puzzled trying to
determine if it might be opend there was a small circle on the back of the envelope carefully
puzzled trying to detemine if it might be opened there was a small circl on the back of the envelope
and in the circle seemed to be the print of a thumb i wiped it on my sleeve but it did not disappear the other
prints on the envelope from my fingers wiped away immediately as well as i could i scrutinized the print in
the circle it too like the lettering seemed a part of the metal yet its ridges and lineaments were exceedingly
delicate at last i was confident that it was a part of the envelope i pressed it with my finger
nothing happened tired of this strange business i set the envelope aside and turned my attention to the chili which
was not bubbling over the small campfire after i had eaten i removed my boots and coat and crawled into the sleeping bag
i rolled over and threw some wood on the fire and reached for the envelope sitting in the sleeping bag i waited for the
fire to rise a bit then i carefully placed my right thumb on the impression in the envelope pressing down firmly it answered
to my touch as i had expected it to as i had feared it would perhaps only one man could open that envelope he whose print fitted
the strang lock he whose name was Tarl Cabot the apparently seamless envelope crackled open alomst with the sound of cellophane"

TARNSMAN OF GOR PAGE 5-6
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DO THE HANDS OF THE GOREAN CLOSCK MOVES
CLOCKWISE OR COUNTERCLOCKWISE?

"that night when our repast had been finished and a
clothed bangled slave women the property of Farouk had
rinsed our right hands with veminium water poured over
our hand into a small shallow bowl of beaten copper i
drew forth from my robes a small flat closed gorean chronometer
it was squarish i placed it in the hands of the boy,achmed he opened
it he observed the tiny hands moving there are twenty hours or ahn in the
gorean day the hands of the gorean chronometers do not move
as the hands of the clocks of the earth they turn in the opposite direction
in that sense they move counterclockwise this chronometer tooled in Ar
was a fine one sturdy exact it contained too a sweeping Ihn hand with which
the tiny Ihn could be measured the boy watched the hands such instruments were
rare in the Tahari region He looked at me"

"it is yours" I told him "it is a gift"

TRIBESMEN OF GOR PAGES 61-62



you are traveling thru the schendi jungles as YOU ARE TRAVELING THRU THE SCHENDI JUNGLES AS
YOU PASS AN OPEN AREA AFFORDING YOU A VIEW OF THE WATER YOU ARE STARTLED TO SEE A FISH PROPELING
ITSELF OUT OF THE WATER AND ONTO A ROCK,EVADING THE SNAP OF A MUCH LARGER FISH YOU WATCH IN
AMAZEMENT AS THIS FISH CONTINUES TO BREATH AND REST QUIETLY WARMING ITSELF IN THE SUN WHAT KIND OF
FISH COULD THIS BE:

"i was intersted in the fauna of the river and the rain forest i recalled sunning themselves on exposed
roots near the river tiny fish they were bulbous eyed and about six inches long with tiny flipperlike lateral
fins they had both lungs and gills their capacity to leave the water in certain small streams during dry
seasons enables them to seek other streams still flowing or pools This property also of course makes it possible
for them to elude marine predators and on the land to return to the water in case of danger normally they remain
quite close to the water sometimes they even sun themselves on the backs of resting or napping tharlarion should
the tharlarion submerge the tiny fish often submerges with it staying close to it but aways from its jaws its proximity
to the tharlarion affords it interstingly an effective protection against most of its natural predators in particular the
black eel which will not approach the sinuous reptiles similarely the tiny fish can thrive on the scraps from
the ravaging jaws of the feeding tharlarion they will even drive one another away from their local tharlarion fighting
in contests of intraspecific aggression over the plated territory of the monsters back the remora fish and the shark have what
seems to be in some respects a similar relationship these tiny fish incidentally are called gints"

EXPLARERS OF GOR PAGE 335
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NAME THE 6 LEGGED LIZARD LIKE FURRED MAMMALIAN
PREDATOR ON GOR.

"the large wide trangular head of the sleen,its nocturnal
eyes blinking against the sudden light of the fire thrust
further into the room followed by its shoulders then its
right clawed paw. the beast bellowed in fury leaping up.
the man as though brought to his senses by the maddened cry
of the beast picked up the slave whip and ran to the window
striking the sleen trying to drive it back through the windrow
and a third of its body it squealed and hissed in fury struck by the
whip and then it caught it in its teeth and tore it away from man
I bound screamed and pressed against the wall then the man picked up
a peice of wood kindling from near the fire and struck the sleen the wood
broke across its neck another paw and leg clawed scrabbled through the windrow
the sleen has six legs it is long sinuous it resembles a lizard save that
it is is furred and mammalian in its attack frenzy it is one of the most
dangerous animals on gor wildly the man bent down to the fire and picked up
a piece of wood from the fire burning and thrust it toward the sleen it squealed
in pain blinded in one eye then it caught the wood in its teeth and wrenched it
away then another leg came through the windrow and almost half of the animals body
thrust into the room"

CAPTIVE OF GOR PAGE 158 (E-BOOK EDITION)



WHAT IS THE ONLY COMMON BODY OF LAW EXISTING AMOUNG GOREAN CITIES?

"the weight and the Stone incidentally are staandardized throughout the Gorean cities
by Merchant law the only common body of law existing among cities"

RAIDERS OF GOR PAGE 130
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HOW MANY BASIC SHADES OF LIPSTICK ARE AVAILABLE TO THE
SLAVES OF GOR?

"there are one hundred and eleven basic shades of slave lipstick" said Sucha

"Much depends on the mood of the Master"

SLAVE GIRL OF GOR PAGE 301

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YOU COME UPON A GROUP OF RENCERS IN THE VOSK RIVER
DELTA. A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES ARE GOING ON ALL THAT
SEEM TO BE RELATED ONE GROUP IS SLICING THE STEMS OF THE
STEMS OF THE RENCE PLANT INTO THIN NARROW STRIPS THE NEXT
ARE CAREFULLY ARRANGING THEM IN A LATTICE PATTERN OTHERS ARE
POUNDING SCRAPING AND FLATTENING THE LATTICED STRIPS WHAT ARE
THEY MAKING?

"Rence paper is made by slicing the stem itno thin narrow strips those
near the center of the plant are particularly favored one layer of
strips is placed longitudinally and then a shorter layer is place latitudinally
across the first layer these two surfaces are then soaked uner water which releases
a glue like substance from the fibers melding the two surfaces into a single
rectuangular sheet these formed sheets are then hammered and
dried in the sun roughness is removed by polishing usually with a smooth shell
or a bit of kailiauk horn the side of a tharlarion tooth may also be used int his work
the paper is then attached sheet to sheet to form rolls usually about twenty sheets to a roll
the best papaer is on the outside of the roll always not to practice deceit in the quality of
the roll and rather to have the most durable paper on the outside which will take the most weathering
handling and genteral wear rence paper comes in various grades about eight in all the rence growers market
their product either at the eastern or western end of the delta"

RAIDERS OF GOR PAGE 7
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THERE ARE MANY UNITS OF MEASURE IN GOR ONE FOR
MEASURING DISTANCE IS THE PASANG HOW DOES THE PASANG
COMPARE TO THE MILE ON EARTH?

"the pasang a common unit of gorean land measurement is
approximately seven tenths of a mile"

NOMADS OF GOR PAGE 12
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YOU WALK INTO THE FOOD PREPARATION AREA OF
AN INN...A SLAVE BENT OVER THE CHOPPING BLOCK
IS CUTTING A VARIETY OF INGREDIENTS.YOU SEE THE
STARCHY GOLDEN BROWN SUL A PILE OF CURLED RED
OVATE LEAVES AND THE ROOT OF A PLANT THAT APPEARS
TO BE SLIGHTLY BLUE IN COLOR WHAT DO YOU THINK THE
SLAVE IS MAKING?

"First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage,
a common gorean soup consisting of three cstadard ingredients
and as it is said whatever else may be found saving
only rocks of the field the principal ingredients of Sullage
are the golden sul the starchy golden brown vine borne
fruit of the golden leaved sul plant the curled red ovate
leaves of the Tur Pah a tree parasite cultivated in host
orchards of Tur tree and the salty blue secondary roots of
the Kes Shrub a small deeply rooted plant which grows best in
sandy soil"

PRIEST KINGS OF GOR PAGES 39-40
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YOU ARE GETTING READY TO TAKE A TRIP ACROSS
KNOWN GOR. YOU BETTER LEARN TO READ A MAP.JUST
LIKE ON EARTH ALL DIRECTIONS ON THE PLANET ARE CALCULATED
FROM ONE POINT WHAT POINT IS USED ON GOR?

'Briefly for those it might interst all directions
on the planet are calculated from teh Sadar Mountains
which for the purposes of calculating direction play a role
analogous to our north pole...."

NOMADS OF GOR PAGE 3
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THE TWO MAIN DIRECTIONS IN THE GOREAN WAY OF
THINKING ARE TA-SARDAR-VAR AND TA-SARDAR-KI-VA
TA-SARDAR-VAR MEANS 'TURNING TO THE SARDAR' AND
TA-SARDAR-KI-VAR NOT TURNING TO SARDAR DO THESE
TERMS SHOW UP ON THE GOREAN MAP?

"ta-sardar-var is a direction which appears on all
gorean maps Ta-Sardar-Ki-Var of course never appears
on a map since it would be any direction which is not
Ta-Var"

NOMADS OF GOR PAGE 3

YOU SETTLE DOWN TO STUDY YOUR MAP OF GOR,UNROLLING IT YOU
SPREAD IT OUT BEFOER AT THE TOP PROMINENTLY WRITTEN YOU SEE
THE WORDS "TA-SADAR-VAR" WHATD DOES THIS MEAN?

".... the two main directions so to speak in Gorean way of thinking
are Ta-Sardar-Ki-Var or as one would normally say Var and Ki-Kar;Var
means a turning and 'Ki' signifies negation
thus rather literally one might speak of "turning to the Sardar and not
turning to the Sardar something like either facing north or not facing
north"

NOMADS OF GOR PAGE 3
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