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Scribes"It took not much time to purchase a small bundle of supplies to take into the Sardar,
nor was it difficult to find a scribe to whom I might entrust the history of the events in Tharna. I did not ask his name
nor he mine. I knew his caste, and he knew mine, and it was enough. He could not read the manuscripts it was written in English,
a language as foreign to him as Gorean would be to most of you , but yet he would treasure the manuscript and guard it as
though it were a most prized possession, for he was a scribe ad it is the way of scribes to love the written word and keep
it harm, and if he could not read the manuscript, what did it matter, perhaps someone could someday, and then the words which
had kept their secret for so long would at last enkindle the mystery of communication and what had been written would be heard
and understood."
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 15
"He scarcely glanced up from the game board at
which he sat across from Caprus, of the Caste of Scribes, Chief Accountant of the House."
Assassin of Gor, page
86
"Many castes, incidentally, have branches and divisions. Lawyers and Scholars, for example, and Record
Keepers, Teachers, Clerks, Historians and Accountants are all Scribes."
Assassin of Gor, page 208
"I
was further cheered by the thought that Caprus had informed me his work was coming along very well and he hoped to have the
documents and maps copied by the beginning of Se'Kara; ...And Caprus seemed in good humor; that perhaps was significant, betokening
an end in sight for my mission. In thinking about this I realized what a brave man Caprus was, and how little I had respected
his courage and his work. He had risked much, probably much more than I. I felt ashamed. He was only a Scribe, and yet what
he had done had taken great courage, probably more courage than that possessed by many Warriors."
Assassin of
Gor, page 237
"Your man was courageous to come and fetch us," I said. "He is Ngumi," said Shaba, "He is courageous,
indeed. We did not know if he would get through. "I did not know a scribe could be so courageous," I said. "There are brave
men in all castes," Said Shaba. "
Explorers of Gor, page 433
"The
scribes, of course, are the scholars and clerks of Gor, and there divisions and rankings within the group, from simple copiers
to the savants of the city."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 44Builders"The road, like most Gorean roads, was built like a wall in the earth and was intended
to last a hundred generations. The Gorean, having little idea of progress in our sense, takes great care in his building and
workmanship. What he builds he expects men to use until the storms of time have worn it to dust. Yet this road, for all of
the loving craft of the Caste of Builders which had been lavished upon it, was only an unpretentious, subsidiary road, hardly
wide enough for two carts to pass. Indeed, even the main roads to Ko-ro-ba were a far cry from the great highways that led
to an from a metropolis like Ar."
Outlaw of Gor, page 25
"Inside, the tunnel, though dim, was not altogether
dark, being lit by domelike, wire-protected energy bulbs, spaced in pairs every hundred yards or so. These bulbs, invented
more than a century ago by the Caste of Builders, produce a clear, soft light for years without replacement."
Tarnsman
of Gor, page 200
"The tharlarion saddle, unlike the tarn saddle, is constructed to absorb shock. Primarily, this
is done by constructing the tree of the saddle in such a way that the leather seat is mounted on a hydraulic fitting which
actually floats in a thick lubricant. Not only does this lubricant absorb much of the shock involved, but it tends, except
under abnormal stress, to keep the seat of the saddle parallel to the ground."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 125
"On
the heights of distant Turia itself I could see the flutter of flags and pennons. The walls were crowded, and I supposed many
upon them used the long glasses of the Caste of Builders to observe the field of the stakes."
Nomads of Gor, page
113
Physicians
"You spoke of knowing the Cabot's for four hundred years" I said "Yes" said Misk "and your
father who is a brave and noble man, has served us upon occasion, though he dealt only, unknowingly, with Implanted Ones.
He first came to Gor more than six hundred years ago." "Impossible!" I cried "Not with the stabilization serums" remarked
Misk." Priest Kings of Gor, page 126
"The Stabilization Serums, which are regarded as the right of all human beings, be they
civilized or barbarian, friend or enemy, are administered in a series of injections, and the effect is, incredibly, an eventual,
gradual transformation of certain genetic structures, resulting in indefinite cell replacement without pattern deterioration.
These genetic alterations, moreover, are commonly capable of being transmitted. For example, though I received the series
of injections when first I came to Gor many years ago I had been told by Physicians that they might, in my case, have been
unnecessary, for I was the child of parents who, though of Earth, had been of Gor, and had received the serum. But different
human beings respond differently to the Stabilization Serums, and the Serums are more effective with some than with others.
With some the effect last indefinitely, with others it wears off after but a few hundred years, with some the effect does
not occur at all, with others tragically, the effect is not to stabilize the pattern but to hasten its degeneration. The odds,
however, are in favour of the recipient, and there are few Gorean's who, if it seems they need the Serum's do not avail themselves
of them."
Assassin of Gor, page 30
"They are administered in four shots ...said the Physician. ...The
guard took me and threw me, belly down on the platform, fastening my wrists over my head and widely apart, in leather wrist
straps. He similarly secured my ankles. The Physician busying himself with fluids and a syringe before a shelf in another
part of the room laden with vials. I screamed. The shot was painful. It was entered in the small of my back, over the left
hip. They left me secured on the table for several minutes and then the Physician returned to check the shot. There had been
apparently no unusual reaction. ...On the first day I had been examined, given some minor medicines of little consequence,
and the first shot in the Stabilization Series. On the second, third and fourth day I received the concluding shots of the
series. On the fifth day the Physician took more samples. The serums are effective ...he told the guard."
Captive
of Gor, page 93
"Dar-Kosis" I said "is regarded as an instrument of Priest Kings, used to smite those who displease
them." "Another myth of Initiates" said Flaminius unpleasantly. "But how do you know that?" I queried. "I do not care," said
Flaminius, "if it is true or not. I am a Physician."
Assassin of Gor, page 266
"I and others
worked secretly in the Cylinder of Physicians. We devoted our time, those ahn in the day in which we could work to study,
research and experiment. Unfortunately for spite and for gold word of our work was brought the High Initiate, by a minor Physician
discharged from our staff for incompetence. The Cylinder of Initiates demanded that the High Council of the Caste of Physicians
put an end to our work, not only that it be discontinued but that our results to that date be destroyed. The Physicians, I
am pleased to say stood with us. There is little love lost between Physicians and Initiates. Before the next passage hand,
he said. Armed men broke into the Cylinder of Physicians; the floors we worked on were burned; the Cylinder itself was seriously
damaged; our work our records, the animals we used were all destroyed; several of my staff were slain, others driven away."
Assassin
of Gor, page 267
"Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens,
its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided."
Assassin
of Gor, page 111
"On a rounded wooden block a naked slave girl knelt, her wrists braceletted behind her. Her head
was back. One of the physicians was cleaning her teeth."
Beasts of Gor, page 54
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