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General Gorean Sayings

1. "Good land is protected only by the swords of the strongest owners in the vicinity." (Tarnsman of Gor, p.27)

2. "Scavengers come to feast on the bodies of wounded tarnsmen." (Tarnsman of Gor, p.116)

3. "Tonight, let us drink wine." A fatalistic maxim in which the events of the morrow were cast into the laps of the Priest-Kings. (Tarnsman of Gor, p.132)

4. "There is no justice without the sword." "First the sword-then government-then law-then justice." (Tarnsman of Gor, p.155-6)

5. "A man who is returning to his city is not to be detained." (Outlaw of Gor, p.37)

6. "Money has no caste." (Outlaw of Gor, p.78)

7. "…all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes." (Priest-Kings of Gor, p.14)

8. "Gold has no caste." (Nomads of Gor, p.84)

9. "When gold will not do, only steel can meet steel." (Assassin of Gor, p.21)

10. "…a good sword is a good investment,…" (Assassin of Gor, p.44)

11. "…all truth and reality is not written in one's own codes." (Raiders of Gor, p.310)

12. "There is only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and steel." (Raiders of Gor, p.90)

13. "Most alone are those whom love has once touched, and left." (Captive of Gor, p.369)

14. "Generosity is the prerogative of the free man." (Hunters of Gor, p.17)

15. "Economic power and political power are like the left and the right foot. To truly move, to truly climb, one must have both." (Hunters of Gor, p.172)

16. "…but to take truth for granted is not to know it. Truth not won is not possessed. We are not entitled to truths for which we have not fought." (Marauders of Gor, p.7)

17. "Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live; they cannot tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live, for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live do not ask the question, its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words, do not ask how to live, but instead proceed to do so." (Marauders of Gor, p.9)

18. "Beware of a silent enemy." (Tribesmen of Gor, p.8)

19. "Invisible chains are those which weigh the most heavily." (Tribesmen of Gor, p.9)

20. "We are bred hunters; we are made farmers." (Tribesmen of Gor, p.165)

21. "A creature who had not known hatred, lust and terror, I suspected, would be ill-fitted to understand the Kur, or men." (Tribesmen of Gor, p.218)

22. "Perhaps we cannot see truth. Perhaps nature has denied us this gift. Perhaps we can sense only its presence. Perhaps we can sense only its heat. Perhaps to stand occasionally in its presence is sufficient." (Tribesmen of Gor, p.256-7)

23. "One must turn one's back in time upon the impenetrable wall." (Tribesmen of Gor, p.258)

24. "Wisdom decrees that the tree of thought must not be planted where it cannot bear fruit. A man may starve trying to feed on the illusion of nourishment." (Tribesmen of Gor, p.258)

25. "The test of a society is perhaps not its conformance or nonconformance to principles but the nature and human prosperity of its members. Let each look about himself and judge for himself the success of his own society. Man lives confused in the ruins of ideologies. Perhaps he will someday emerge from the caves and pens of his past. That would be a beautiful day to see. There would be a sunlit world waiting for him" (Slave Girl of Gor, p.212)

26. "And one may be rational, perhaps, without being weak. Indeed, is not weakness the ultimate irrationality?" (Beasts of Gor, p.8)

27. "You may judge and scorn the Goreans if you wish. Know as well, however, that they judge and scorn you. They fulfill themselves as you do not. Hate them for their pride and power. They will pity you for your shame and weakness." (Beasts of Gor, p.11)

28. "Perhaps the world only speaks to those who are prepared to listen." (Beasts of Gor, p.29)

29. "Civilized men, the small and pale, the righteous, the learned, the smug, the supercilious, the weak-stomached and contemptuous, stand upon the shoulders of forgotten, bloody giants." (Beasts of Gor, p.31)

30. "The meaning of history lies not in the future. It is like a range of mountains with many summits. Great deeds are the meaning of history. There are many meanings and many summits. One may climb different mountains at different times, but each mountain glows in the same sun." (Beasts of Gor, p.33)

31. "The machine and the animal must, I suspect, forever be at war, or until one conquers." (Beasts of Gor, p.57)

32. "…the world cannot be lonely where there are two people who are friends." (Beasts of Gor, p.289)

33. "Where there is beauty and friendship what more could one ask of a world. How grand and significant is such a place. What more justification could it require?" (Beasts of Gor, p.289)

34. "One does not know, truly, what it is to stand, until one has fallen. Once one has fallen, then one knows, you see, what it is to stand." (Beasts of Gor, p.340)

35. "How can one know the answer to a question which one fears to ask?" (Explorers of Gor, p.11)

36. "When a man has once eaten of the meat of gods he will never again chew on the straws of fools" (Explorers of Gor, p.12)

37. "How difficult and subtle are the natures of men," (Explorers of Gor, p.153)

38. "Logic is as neutral as a knife," (Explorers of Gor, p.223)

39. "Why does the nibbling urt chatter and laugh at the larl? Is it because he himself is not a larl, or is it because he fears its paws?" (Explorers of Gor, p.229)

40. "Fairness is a central thesis of sound governance." (Explorers of Gor, p.230)

41. "I never trust a man until I know what he eats." (Explorers of Gor, p.383)

42. "How hard it is for two who do not share caste to understand one another," (Explorers of Gor, p.431)

43. "There are brave men in all castes," (Explorers of Gor, p.433)

44. "I think it is better to build than it is to destroy." "Even though one's work may fall into ruin?" "Yes, even though one's work may fall into ruin." (Explorers of Gor, p.448)

45. "But who is stronger, truly, I asked myself, he who continues to wound and bleed himself to please others, or he who refuses any longer to do so?" (Fighting Slave of Gor, p.94)

46. "Manhood cannot be forever denied. The beast will walk at our side, or it will destroy us." (Fighting Slave of Gor, p.115)

47. "Goreans, I knew, seldom drew steel unless they intended to make use of it." (Rogue of Gor, p.74)

48. "Beware the sleen that seems to sleep." (Guardsman of Gor, p.50)

49. "There is no single humanity, no single shirt, no correct pair of shoes, no uniform, even a gray one, that will fit all men. There are a thousand humanities possible. He who denies this sees only his own horizons. He who disagrees is the denier of difference, and the murderer of the better futures." (Savages of Gor, p.31)

50. "Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep. T hat is only a short-cut to destruction." (Savages of Gor, p.89)

51. "I wondered if barbarisms were civilizations which were not one's own." (Savages of Gor, p.89)

52. "It is pleasant to have one's enemies in one's power." (Savages of Gor, p.167)

53. "A civilization, you see, need not inevitably be a conflict with nature. A rational, informed civilization can even, in a sense, refine and improve upon nature; it can, so to speak, bring nature to fruition. Indeed, a natural civilization might be the natural flowering of nature itself, not an antithesis to nature, not a contradiction to nature, not a poison nor a trammel to it, but a stage or aspect of it, a form which nature itself can take." (Savages of Gor, p.194)

54. "Too, such things as civilization, and friendship and interchanges depend muchly upon trust." (Blood Brothers of Gor, p.175)

55. "Few things, I suspect, are more real than those which seem most intangible." (Blood Brothers of Gor, p.182)

56. "Truth is not terrible; it is merely real." (Blood Brothers of Gor, p.218)

57. "Orthodoxy is not invariably equivalent to soundness…Besides, from whence do you think orthodoxy derives? Does it not blossom from the root of heresy? Is it not true that today's orthodoxy is commonly little more than yesterday's heresy triumphant?…Similarly, the more orthodox your play, the more predictable it will be, and thus the more easily exploited." (Players of Gor, p.328)

58. "…among masters, Goreans, larls among men, uncrippled, unsoftened, untamed beasts, categorical, uncompromising owners of women, …" (Vagabonds of Gor, p.32)

59. "One wants a civilization, of course. Civilizations are desirable. One would wish to have one. But then, again, there are many sorts of civilizations. Suppose an old order should collapse, or disintegrate, or be destroyed. What would be the nature of the new order? Surely it need not be built on the failed model of the old order. That was an experiment which was tested, and found wanting. It was a mistake. It did not work. What would the new order be like? Let us hope it would be a sounder order, one, for once, fully in harmony with nature." (Vagabonds of Gor, p.118-9)

60. "Ritual is important. It is fulfilling, and meaningful. It is beautiful. It is symbolic, mnemonic and instructive. It establishes protocols. It expresses, defines and clarifies conditions. It is essential to, and ingredient within, civilization." (Vagabonds of Gor, p.213)

61. "The most dangerous lies are those which we tell ourselves." (Vagabonds of Gor, p.468)

62. "More broadly, order and structure in human life, stability in society, even, in a sense, civilization itself, depends on sanctions. A civilization must be willing to impose sanctions, and to impose them reliably and efficiently. A lapse in such resolve and practice is a symptom of decline, even of impending disintegration. Ultimately civilization depends upon power, moral and physical, upon, so to speak, the will of masters and the reality of the whip and sword." (Magicians of Gor, p.124)

63. "It is hard for a man to be great who does not have great enemies." (Magicians of Gor, p.183)

64. "It is often easier to know others than ourselves. Perhaps that is because there is less need to tell lies about them. Few of us recognize the stranger in the shadows, who is ourself." (Magicians of Gor, p.188)

65. "There are good fellows in all cities." (Magicians of Gor, p.240)
66. “Too, I considered the nature of legalities. One tends, if naïve, to think of those legalities with which one is most familiar as being somehow the only ones possible. This view, of course, is quite mistaken. This is not to deny that all civilizations, and cultures, have their own customs and legalities. It is only to remark that they need not be the same. Indeed, the legalities with which I was most familiar, as they stood in contradiction to nature, constituted, I supposed, in their way, an aberration of legalities. They were, at the least, uncharacteristic of most cultures, and historically atypical. To be sure, if the intent is to contradict nature rather than fulfill her, there was doubtless much point to them. Thusly, that they produced human pain and social chaos, with all the miseries attendant thereupon, would not be seen as an objection to them but rather as the predictable result of their excellence in the light of their objectives. But not all legalities, of course, need have such objectives. As I lay there in the darkness, in my chains, and considered the factuality and simplicity of my predicament, and the apparently practical and routine aspects of my helplessness and incarceration, I suspected that my current situation was not at all likely to be in violation of legalities. Rather I suspected it was in full and conscious accord with them. I suspected that I was now, or soon would be, enmeshed in legalities. To be sure, these would be different legalities from those with which I was most familiar. These would be, I suspected, legalities founded not on politics, but biology.” (Witness of Gor, p.9)

67. “On this world hierarchy exists, and status, and rank, and distance. Such things, always real, are not here concealed. Here they are in the open. The people of this world do not deign to conceal that each is not the same as every other, and not merely is this true of those such as I. Such articulations, of course, so healthy with respect to maintaining social stability, constitute an institutional counterpart to the richnesses of difference in an articulated, ordered, holistic nature. On this world, for better or for worse, order seems most often preferred to chaos, and truth to fiction.” (Witness of Gor, p.79)

68. “I did not think, on the other hand, that the men of this world would allow their world to be destroyed. Nature, and its truths, were too important to them.” (Witness of Gor, p.100)

69. “Very little on this world, and, I suppose, on others, is simple.” (Witness of Gor, p.226)

70. “It is not unusual on this world, incidentally, for men to prize such things as flowers. Perhaps all men have this softer side to their nature. I do not know. At any rate, men here, or most men here, do not seem to fear this part of themselves or attempt, perhaps for some cultural reason, to conceal it. Perhaps, given their culture, in which are secured their natural rights, those of manhood and the mastery, they can afford to be whole men here, not cultural or political half-men, of one sort or another.” (Witness of Gor, p.353)

71. “He thought for himself. How few men and woman of Earth, I thought, did that. Is not acquiescence superior to inquiry? Is not cowardice, rather than simple discretion, the better part of valor? Is not conformity to prescribed falsehood less perilous than the seeking of truth?” (Witness of Gor, p.460)

72. “Truth is a strange thing. There is a danger in seeking it, for one might find it. That one does not like a truth does not make it false. How few people understand that.” (Witness of Gor, p.586)

73. “But there are many sorts of truths, as there are flowers and beasts. Some truths are hard and cold, and sharp, and if one touches them one might cut oneself and bleed. Some truths are like dark stones on which do little more than exist unnoticed; others are green with the glow of life, like moist grass rustling in the morning sun; some truths are like frowns; and some are like smiles. Some are friendly; some are hostile; and, in both cases, their nature is just what it is, not what they may be said to be. Politics is not the arbiter of truth; it may be the arbiter of comfort, safety, conformity, and success, but it is not the arbiter of truth; the arbiter of truth is the world and nature; they have the last say in these matters.

“Many may wish it were not the case; and many will pretend it is not the case; but it is, for better or for worse, the case.

“Truth does not care whether it is believed or not; similarly, stone walls and cliffs do not care whether they are noted or not; so then let us leave it to the individual to do as he thinks best. Truth, the stone wall, the cliff, are not enemies; but they are real.” (Witness of Gor, p.586)

74. “Some games are such, that the outcome depends not on the pieces of power, which may balance one another, but on the smallest move of the most insignificant piece on the board. I suppose that this may upon occasion be true on greater games, as well, that even a child, or slave, properly placed, at a critical juncture, might serve to topple empires.” (Witness of Gor, p.642)
75. “Sometimes, said the officer, the best Kaissa is no Kaissa.” (Witness of Gor, p.655)

76. “In thinking you betrayed your oath, you were mistaken. Rather you were bringing about the very ends which it envisaged. Do you think that the meaning of an oath is in the words it wears? It is rather what it celebrates and intends, the meaning behind the meanings of the words. Repudiated in words, it was revered in deeds. Denied, it was fulfilled. Forsworn, it was kept. Honor rejected was honor transformed, honor restored. How often do we seek to do one thing and discover we have done another? How often we achieve ends which we do not intend.” (Witness of Gor, p.657)

You are a brave man," said he, "to trifle with those of the black caste.
Witness of Gor, p.554

There is a reference to Assassins being "sleen of the north.
Explorers of Gor, p.241

The training of the assassin is thorough and cruel. He who wears the black of the caste has not won it easily.
Beasts of Gor, p.358

One is then alone, with gold and steel.
Beasts of Gor, p.358

"It is seldom," he said, "that those of the black caste laugh."
Assassin of Gor, p.267


The men in the black tunics who had remained overnight in the quarters of the pit master, including their leader and his lieutenant, seemed to me strange fellows. They were much unlike many, if not most, of the men of this world. They did not laugh, they did not joke, they did not tell stories. They were silent, frightening, terrible men. I do not think they had Home Stones. If they had some loyalty, and I do not doubt they did, I think it was rather to some bloody oath, or dark covenant, or even to a leader. They attended to their equipment, they sharpened their swords. They drank only water. They ate sparingly. The hospitality of the pit master, offering us to them, was declined. Even the women chained at the wall were not touched.
Witness of Gor, p.550

The sword of the warrior, commonly, is pledged to a Home Stone, that of the assassin to gold and the knife.
Beasts of Gor, p.136

"The Assassin," he said, "is like a musician, a surgeon. The Warrior is like a butcher. He is a ravaging, bloodthirsty lout."
Beasts of Gor, p.413

But Assassins are such arid fellows. Warriors are more genial, more enthusiastic.
Beasts of Gor, p.413

An Assassin goes in and does his job, and comes out quietly," he said. "Warriors storm buildings and burn towers.
Beasts of Gor, p.413

There are few men who have done great wrong or who have powerful, rich enemies who do not tremble upon learning that one has been brought to their city who wears the dagger.
Assassin of Gor, p.7

More than one triumph in a Gorean city has been spoiled by the bolt of an assassin.
Magicians of Gor, p.90

Scormus of Ar reminded me of men of the caste of Assassins, as they sometimes are, before they begin their hunt. The edge must be sharp, the resolve must be merciless, the instinct to kill must in no way be blunted.
Beasts of Gor, p.86

Scormus would play like an Assassin. He would be merciless, and he would take no chances.
Beasts of Gor, p.88

It was not irrational on her part, of course, to fear an assassination plot.
Magicians of Gor, p.459

He wore a black robe with a stripe of white down the front and back. Kuurus knew that it would be this man, who wore the black, but not the full black, of the Assassin, who would deal with him. Kuurus smiled bitterly to himself. He laughed at the stripe of white. Their tunic, said Kuurus to himself, is as black as mine.
Assassin of Gor, p.4

"You will not lead me as a prisoner," he said. Then, without another word, he turned and leaped into space. I walked slowly to the edge of the cylinder. There was only the sheer wall of the cylinder, broken once by a tarn perch some twenty feet below. There was no sign of the Assassin. His crushed body would be recovered from the streets below and publicly impaled. Pa-Kur was dead.
Tarnsman of Gor, p.212

"Why Assassins," asked the pit master. "Why those of the black caste?"
"Efficiency, anonymity." Said the officer."
Witness of Gor, p.547

".., It is, though delicate and beautiful, a reasonably common, unimportant flower; it is also easily plucked, being defenseless, and can be easily crushed, overwhelmed and, if one wishes, discarded.
Slave Girl of Gor, p.62

"It seemed a lofty, fine city, white and shimmering, rising from the plains." --Nomads of Gor, p.55

"I found Turia to match my expectations. She was luxurious. Her shops were filled with rare, intriguing paraphernalia. I smelled perfumes that I had never smelled before. More than once we encountered a line of musicians dancing single file down the center of the street, playing on their flutes and drums, perhaps on their way to a feast. I was pleased to see again, though often done in silk, the splendid varieties of caste colors of the typical Gorean city, to hear once more the cries of peddlers that I knew so well, the cake sellers, the hawkers of vegetables, the wine vendor bending under a double verrskin of his vintage." (Nomads of Gor, p.87

"I supposed that life in high-walled Turia, for most of its citizens, went on from day to day in its usual patterns oblivious of the usually distant Wagon Peoples." (Nomads of Gor, p.88

The city had never fallen, and had not been under siege in more than a century." (Nomads of Gor, p.88

There is a famous Turian saying: "---to give you something, so to speak, to stir in your wine" (Nomads of Gor, p.198

"Turian girls are proud," said Kamchak, "Thus, they make excellent slaves." (Nomads of Gor, p.29)


"It is said that only a man knows how to tie a Turian camisk on a girl properly." (Captive of Gor, p.160)

"Most placatory dances however, are not fixed-form dances, but are 'free' dances, in which the slave, exquisitely alert to the nuances of the situation, the particular master, the nature of his displeasure, the gravity of her offense, and such, improvises, doing her best to assuage his anger and beg his forgiveness, to reassure him of the authenticity of her contrition and the genuineness of her desire to do better." (Dancer of Gor, p.332

"The Tahari is perhaps most beautiful at night. During the day one can scarcely look upon it, for the heats and reflections. During the day it seems menacing, whitish, shimmering with heat, blinding, burning; men must shade their eyes; some go blind; women and children remain within the tents; but, with the coming of the evening, with the departure of the sun, there is a softening, a gentling, of this vast, rocky harsh terrain. It is at this time that Hassan, the bandit, would make his camps. As the sun sank, the hills, the dust and sky, would become red in a hundred shades, and, as the light fades, these reds would become gradually transformed into a thousand glowing tones of gold, which, with the final fading of the light in the west, yield to a world of luminous, then dusky, blues and purples. Then, it seems suddenly, the sky is black and wide and high and is rich with the reflected sands of stars, like clear bright diamonds burning in the soft, sable silence of the desert's innocent quietude." (Tribesman of Gor p.169-70

"…that dry vastness, almost a continent of rock, and heat, and wind and sand." (Tribesman of Gor p.36

"In the cafes, as in the paga taverns of the north, one learns the realities of a city, what is its latest news, what is afoot in the city, what are its dangers, its pleasures, and where its power lies." (Tribesman of Gor p.47

"Between them they had, in the crusts, scratched a board for Zar. This resembles the Kaissa board. Pieces, however, may be placed only on the intersections of lines either within or at the edges of the board. Each player has nine pieces of equal value which are originally placed on the intersections of the nine interior vertical lines with what would be the rear horizontal line, constituted by the back edge of the board, from each player's point of view. The corners are not used in the original placement, though they constitute legitimate move points after play begins. The pieces are commonly pebbles, or bits of verr dung, and sticks. The "pebbles" move first. Pieces move one intersection at a time, unless jumping. One may jump either the opponent's pieces or one's own. A jump must be made to an unoccupied point. Multiple jumps are permissible. The object is to effect a complete exchange of original placements. The first player to fully occupy the opponent's initial position wins. Capturing, of course, does not occur. The game is one of strategy and maneuverability." (Tribesman of Gor p.265)

"Certain cities, like Tor, dealt in slaves, commonly buying unsold girls from caravans, and selling them at a profit to other caravan masters. The city's warriors, too, were paid a bounty on women captured from enemy cities, customarily a silver tarsk for a comely female in good health." (Tribesman of Gor p.19-20

"In the Tahari," said Hassan, "it is well to be of the Tahari, if one would live." (Tribesman of Gor p.175

"The trench, of course, is always dug with its long axis perpendicular to the path of the sun, that it provides the maximum shade for the longest period of time." (Tribesman of Gor p.21)

"One does not, alone, without water, move on the sands during the day. Interestingly, because of the lack of surface water, the nights, the sun gone, are cool, even chilly at times. One would, thus, if not in caravan, move at night." (Tribesman of Gor p.21

can form on them in the morning. They will then lick the dew off the rocks in the morning, though this has limited use. "One cannot pay the water debt, of course, with the spoonful or so of moisture obtainable in this way. It does, however, wet the lips and tongue." (Tribesman of Gor p.94

"The conservation of body water is the crucial parameter in survival. One moves little. One sweats as little as possible." (Tribesman of Gor p.21

"In the desert, decomposition proceeds with great slowness. Bodies, well preserved, had been found which had been slain more than a century before. Skeletons, unless picked by birds or animals, are seldom found in the desert." (Tribesman of Gor p.22-3)

"spoke" of a wheel, spacing themselves at intervals. The number of men in the caravan determines the length of the "spoke." No one in the caravan departs from it by more than the length of the wheel's spoke, pertinent to the individual caravan." (Tribesman of Gor p.21)

"As the "wheel" of men turns about its axis, the camp, at intervals the men draw arrows in the dirt or sand, or, if rocks are available, make arrows, pointing to the camp. When the search is discontinued, after success or failure, these markers are destroyed, lest they be taken by travelers for water arrows,…" (Tribesman of Gor p.22)

"The men of the Tahari kill those who make maps of it. They know their own country, or their districts within it; they are not eager that others know it as well. Without a guide, who knew the locations of water, to enter the Tahari would be suicidal." (Tribesman of Gor p.101

"The man of the Tahari, conquered, stands ready, his scimitar returned to him, to defend his conqueror to the death. The conqueror, by his might and cunning, and victory, has won, by the right of the Tahari, a soldier to his cause." (Tribesman of Gor p.177

"Sulieman was a man of discrimination, and taste; he was also one of high intelligence." (Tribesman of Gor p.93

"The caravan kailla, incidentally, both those which are pack animals and those used as mounts for guards and warriors, are muchly belled. This helps to keep the animals together, makes it easier to move in darkness, and in a country where, often, one cannot see more than one hundred yards to the next dune or plateau, is an important factor in survival." (Tribesman of Gor p.22

"The red salt of Kasra, so called from its port of embarkation, was famed on Gor. It was brought from secret pits and mines, actually deep in the interior, bound in heavy cylinders on the backs of pack kaiila. Each cylinder, roped to others, weighed in the neighborhood of ten stone, or some forty pounds, a Gorean "Weight." A strong kaiila could carry sixteen such cylinders, but the normal load was ten. Even numbers are carried, of course, that the load is balanced. A poorly loaded Kaiila can carry far less weight than one on whom the burden is intelligently distributed." (Tribesman of Gor p.20

At Klima, and other such areas, salt is an industry. Thousands serve there, held captive by the desert." (Tribesman of Gor p.238

To be a salt slave, it is said, one must be strong. Only the strong, it is said, reach Klima." (Tribesman of Gor p.220)

"From the secret pits of Klima, it was said, no slave had ever returned." (Tribesman of Gor p.117

"Besides the mines and pits of the salt districts, there are warehouses and offices, in which complicated records are kept, and from which shipments to the isolated, desert storage areas are arranged. There are also processing areas where the salt is freed of water and refined to various degrees of quality, through a complicated system of racks and pans, generally exposed to the sun. Slaves work at these, raking, stirring and sifting. There are also the molding sheds where the salt is pressed into the large cylinders, such that they may be roped together and eventually laden on pack Kaiila." (Tribesman of Gor p.240)

"Needless to say, Klima contains as well, incidental to the salt industry centered there, the ancillary supports of these mining and manufacturing endeavors, such as its kitchens and commissaries, its kennels and eating sheds, its discipline pits, its assembly areas, its smithies and shops, its quarters for guards and scribes, an infirmary for them, and so on. In many respects Klima resembles a community, save that it differs in at least two significant respects. It contains neither children, nor women." (Tribesman of Gor p.240)

"There are those who say, and I do not doubt it true, that it is he, and not the merchants, who controls the salt of the Tahari." (Tribesman of Gor p.209

"The kailla of raiders, incidentally, are never belled." (Tribesman of Gor p.22

The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel." (Tribesman of Gor p.151

"The kaffiyeh is a squarish scarf, folded over into a triangle, and placed over the head, two points at the side of the shoulders, one in back to protect the back of the neck. It is bound to the head by several loops of cord, the agal. The cording indicates tribe and district." (Tribesman of Gor p.20

"The slave veil is a mockery, in its way. It reveals, as much as conceals, yet it adds a touch of subtlety, mystery; slave veils are made to be torn away, the lips of the master then crushing those of the slave." (Tribesman of Gor p.70)

"The mouth of a woman, by men of the Tahari, and by Goreans generally, is found extremely provocative, sexually." (Tribesman of Gor p.69-70

Set on rocks, boards of metal some two feet in length, and six inches wide, are sometimes used by the nomad women in frying foods." (Tribesman of Gor p.21

"A beautifully measured gait is thought, in the Tahari, to be attractive in a woman." (Tribesman of Gor p.45

"Cold, white-skinned women are of interest to the men of the Tahari. They enjoy putting them in servitude. They enjoy, on their submission mats, turning them into helpless, yielding slaves. Too, blue-eyed, blond women are, statistically, rare in the Tahari districts." (Tribesman of Gor p.44

"In the Tahari a woman is often stuffed with food for days before her sale, even force fed, if necessary. Many of the men of the Tahari relish soft, pretty, meaty little slaves." (Players of Gor, p.219

"She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and bangled, and has been made up, and touched with slave perfume, she kneels, head down in a large oval of light gleaming chain, extending her wrists before her; fastened at the sides of the top of the oval are two wrist rings, at the sides of the lower loop of the oval two ankle rings; the oval is then pulled inward and the wrist and ankle rings fastened on the slave; her throat is then locked in the dancing collar, which has, under the chin, an open snap ring; with the left hand the oval is then gathered together, so the two strands of chain lie in the palm of the left hand, whence, lifted, they are placed inside the snap ring, which is then snapped shut, and locked; the two strands of chain flow freely in the snap ring; accordingly, though the girl's wrists and ankles are fastened at generous, though inflexible limits from one another, usually about a yard for the wrists and about eighteen inches for the ankles, much of the chain may be played through, and back through, the collar ring; this permits a skillful girl a great deal of beautiful chain work; the oval and collar are traditional in the Tahari; it enhances a girl's beauty; it interferes little with her dance, though it imposes subtle, sensuous limits upon it; a good dancer uses these limits, exploiting them deliciously; for example, she may extend a wrist, subtly holding the chain at her waist with her other hand; the chain slides through the ring, yet short of the expected movement; the chain stops her wrist; her wrist rebels, but is helpless; it must yield; her head falls; she is a chained slave girl." (Tribesman of Gor p.215)

"In sharing their water I had made myself, by custom of the Tahari, their guest." (Tribesman of Gor p.143

"It is a hard choice you impose upon me," said Hassan, "to choose between my brother and my tribe." Then he said, "I am of the Tahari. I must choose my brother." (Tribesman of Gor p.277)

More real than the law is the heart," said the girl, quoting a proverb of the Tahari." (Tribesman of Gor p.146)

"A good fight, I have heard men of the Tahari say, licking their lips, justifies any cause." (Tribesman of Gor p.177)

"The desert is my mother, and my father." (Tribesman of Gor p.264

"And strangest of all," said the merchant, leaning forward, looking at us intently, "is the fact that the Aretai raiders were led by a woman." (Tribesman of Gor p.158)

"She was not unskillful." (Tribesman of Gor p.329)

But he also does not defend with his full strength so as to not tire her arm. He eventually tells her that: "You are not a match for a warrior," (Tribesman of Gor p.329