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. It is not the same as the wearing of the bondage knot in the hair, theoffering of fruit, the serving of wine, the moaning, the prostrations, theobeisances, the gently, supplicatory licking of the feet? Yes, Master! she said.Page 201ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html What is your master s name? I asked Teibar, she said, of Ar.(294) And what are you called? I asked. Tuka, she said, if it pleases master. I have seen you before, I said, months ago, outside the walls, at the campof refugees.She looked up at me. You dance well, slave girl, I said. Thank you, Master, she said. You dance better than many women I have seen in taverns, I said. Thank you, Master, she said. But perhaps you, too, I said, once so danced. I could well imagine her insuch a place, in a bit of silk, belled, with bangles, pleasing men. Yes, Master, she said. Once I so danced. And do you now so dance? I asked. When my master chooses to put me forth, she said. Doubtless upon occasion, I said, you dance privately for your master? It is my hope that I please him, she said. And if you did not please him? I asked.Magicians of Gor He would whip me, she said. He is strong? I asked. Yes, Master, she said. You love to dance? I asked. Yes, Master, she said. But as a slave? I asked. I am what I am, Master, she said, looking up at me. I see, I said. Surely all women desire to appear before me as a slave, and to so move, andso serve, and to dance for them, to please them. Do you suggest that all women are slaves? I asked. It is what I am, she said. I do not presume to speak for all women. You have an accent, I said. Forgive me, Master, she said. Where do you come from? I asked. From far away, Master, she said. What is your native language? I asked. I do not know if Master has heard of it, she said. What is it? I asked. English, she said. I have heard of it, I said. Perhaps Master has owned girls such as I? she asked. Yes, I said.(pg.295) From Earth? Yes, I said. I have heard of it, said Marcus. It is far away.Magicians of Gor Yes, I said. It is an excellent source of female slaves, he said. Yes, I said. Thank you, Masters, she said. What is your name on Earth? I asked. Doreen, she said. Doreen Williamson. Doreen, I said. Yes, Master, she said. Is that a slave name? I asked.Page 202ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html It was the name of a slave, she smiled. Though at that time I was not yetcollared and branded. So you are from Earth? I said.I had, of course, noted her vaccination markat the camp outside Ar months before.By such tiny signs may an Earth femalebe recognized among other Gorean slaves. Yes, Master, she said. What are you now? I asked. Only a Gorean slave girl, she said.I regarded her.It was true. Master, she said, timidly, looking up at me from where she knelt by theroadside, to where I was high above her, in the saddle of the tharlarion. Yes, I said. Forgive a girl who does not wish to be punished, she said, but I suspectthat Master may not be native to this world either. He is from the place called Earth , too, said Marcus.Marcus, of highcaste, was familiar with various tenets of the second knowledge, such thingsas the roundness of his world, its movement in space, and the existence ofother planets.On the other hand he remained skeptical of many of these tenetsas he found them offensive to common sense.He was particularly suspicious ofthe claim that the human species had an extraterrestrial origin, namely, thatit did not originate on his own world, Gpr.It was not that he denied therewas a place called Earth but he thought it must be somewhere on Gor, perhaps east of the VoltaiRange or south of the Tahari.Marcus and I had agreed not to discuss the issue.I had no ready response,incidentially, to his suggestion that the human race might have originated onGor and then some of these folks, perhaps transported by Priest-Kings, hadbeen settled on Earth.Indeed, although I regarded this as quite unlikely, itseemed an empirical (pg.296)possibility.For example, anthropoidal fossils can be found on Gor, as well ason Earth, and so on.At any rate,Magicians of GorMarcus found it much easier to believe that magic existed than that his worldwas round, that it moved, and that there might be other worlds rather like ithere and there in the universe.In fact, in his philosophy, so to speak, theuniverse was still of somewhat manageable proportions.Sometimes I ratherenvied him. It is true, I said. I am originally from Earth. Undoubtedly she haddetected my accent, as I had hers.To be sure there are many accents on Gorwhich are not Earth accents.For example, not everyone on Gor speaksGorean.There are many languages spoken on Gor.For example, most of the redhunters of the north do not speak Gorean, nor the red savages of the Barrens,nor the inhabitants of the jungles east of Schendi. Strange, then, Master, she said, that we should meet in this reality, I,once a woman of Earth, as now no more than a kneeling slave before you, once aman of Earth. Do you find it unfitting? I asked. No, Master, she said. It is as it should have been on Earth, I said. Yes, Master, she said. But such considerations need not concern us, I said. They are in the past.They belong to a different world.You are now of Gor, and only of Gor. Yes, Master, she said. But if I am not mistaken, it is not I alone who amnow no longer of Earth, not I alone who am now of Gor, and wholly so. Oh? I said. It seems that we are both now of Gor, and wholly so. Yes, I said.It was true
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