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Gorean Book Quote Requests
Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 115 | "Are slaves permitted to carry coins or must they carry them in their mouth"
Answer
Hello,
There are very few "hard fast rules" in the Gorean culture. Most of what is taken as "law" online is in fact more of a principle from the books. Many times it is shown that slaves do not hold coins with their hands but then again it is shown that there are times that they do.
Fogaban
"The check is to be paid, or put on the bill, I gather, at the keeper's desk," I said. One had to pass the keeper's desk after leaving the paga room. That arrangement, I supposed, was no accident. For example, it would save the posting of one employee, which was perhaps a calculated economy on the part of the proprietor. I would not have put it past him, at any rate. Too, in virtue of this arrangement, one need not entrust coins to debtor sluts, slaves, and such. In this house I suspected that they would not be permitted to so much as touch a coin. They would be kept coinless, absolutely.
Renegades of Gor Book 23 Page 75
"Thank you, noble people, splendid patrons of the arts," called Boots. "Thank you!" The Chino and Lecchio gathered up the coins, handing them to Boots, who took them and deposited them somewhere inside his robes, perhaps into the lining or a hidden pocket. The girls, here at the fair, were not passing through the crowd with copper bowls, perhaps because they had both been in the play. At any rate, even when they had done this in Port Kar, they had not, of course, been handling or touching the coins, only the bowls in which the coins were collected. The only female performers who customarily gather up the coins thrown to them for their masters are dancers, who usually perform alone, except for their musicians. They tuck the coins in a bit of their silk, if they have been permitted any. Given the nature of their silk, which is usually diaphanous, and the general scantiness of their garb, and the publicness of their picking up the coins, there is little danger that they could conceal a coin, even if they dared to do so. A slave girl, you see, is generally forbidden to so much as touch a coin without permission. This does not mean, of course, that they may not be sent to the market, and given coins for errands, and such. For an unaccounted-for coin to be found in a slave girl's possession, or among her belongings, can be a cause for severe punishment. She might even be fed to sleen.
Players of Gor Book 20 Page 159
I noted a slave passing by in the street, the lower portion of her body in shadows, the upper portion bright in the late afternoon sun. She was shading her eyes. Her collar was close-fitting. Her dark hair fell about it. She was probably on an errand. A coin sack was tied about her neck. Some slaves are not allowed to touch money. Many, on the other hand, on errands, carry coins in their mouth. This, however, is not unusual on Gor, even for free folks. Gorean garments generally lack pockets.
Mercenaries of Gor Book 21 Page 442
"I am only sorry that you are not worth more," she said. Tears welled up in my eyes.
"I will leave you now, slave, roped and braceleted, and in the power of men," she said. She turned away.
But the door was blocked by a fellow, leaning against it; his arms folded.
"Stand aside!" she said, angrily.
He did not move, nor did he respond to her.
She spun to face the leader of the men.
"What do you have there, in your hand?" he asked.
She clutched the tarsk more tightly.
"Open your hand," said the leader.
"What is the meaning of this!" she cried.
"Must a command be repeated?" he inquired.
She opened her hand, revealing the silver tarsk.
He walked to her, and removed it from her hand. "Have you been permitted to touch money?" he asked.
"Please!" she said.
"We could always check with her master," suggested a fellow.
"It is mine!" said Tupita.
"Yours?" asked the leader, smiling.
"Yes!" she said.
"Surely you know that animals are not allowed to own money," he said.
Tupita turned white.
The leader dropped the coin into his wallet.
"Let me go," she said. "I will bother you no longer!"
"Remove your cloak," said the leader.
Tupita thrust it back, over her shoulders, untied the strings and let it fall to the floor, behind her.
She then stood there among them, in a brief tunic of opaque slave silk, such as might be worn during the day. She was a very lovely, and very frightened woman. The cloak removed, the collar could be seen on her neck. If he from whom she had intended to purchase tarn passage had not seen the collar, nor, of course, her brand, nor her tunic, or such, and, theoretically, at least, did not know she was a slave, he would not be held legally responsible for having sold her passage. Tupita had excellent legs.
"Remove the tunic," said the leader.
She reached to the disrobing loop, and dropped the tunic to the floor, about her ankles. Tupita was too good a slave, and too wise a slave, to dally before a Gorean male, having received such a command.
Dancer of Gor Book 22 Page 275
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