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| 191 | Tal Fogban and much thanks for the Gorean Cave. I find Myself using it as a quick reference in conjunction with My kindle collection almost daily.
My request is for references to females committing suicide to avoid the Collar. the subject came up in a group discussion. The only references I have found to suicide of any kind have been the pani regaining their honor by the knife. Thanks muchly for your help and for The Cave
Answer
First, you mentioned the general reference to suicide. So here are all the times the word suicide appears within the series.
I had neared the compound a hundred times before, but this time I was determined to enter. I began to walk with a quickened pace, my heart began to beat powerfully, and I felt the elation of decision. I would act. It would be suicide to attempt to cut my way in, but Pa-Kur was in the environs of Ar, directing the siege operations, and I might, with luck, pass myself off as his messenger, who would be bold enough to deny entrance to one whose helmet bore the golden slash of the courier?
Tarnsman of Gor Book 1 Page 182
It seemed to me that under the circumstances, while I was still my own master, I should perhaps slay myself. Otherwise I would be used as a weapon by Sarm, used to injure and destroy my friends. The thought of suicide has always horrified me, for life seems precious, and the mortal moments that one has, so brief a glimpse of the vistas of reality, it seems to me should be cherished, even though they might be lived in pain or sorrow. But under the circumstances it seemed that I should perhaps surrender the gift of life, for there are some things more precious than life, and were it not so I think that life itself would not be as precious as it is.
Priest-Kings of Gor Book 3 Pages 254 - 255
"But man must be free," I had said.
"Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the Priest-King, adding, "Man is not yet rational."
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 7
These developments, however, are not likely to occur on Gor. That is because of the nature of Gorean men. Indeed, even on another world which occurs to me, such developments would seem unlikely, once the fevers and fits of madness have passed. Surely even that world, finding itself on the brink of species suicide, might be expected to draw back in horror. Let the fanatics and the insane be put to one side, not to be followed, but to be ignored, as was done before, when one emerged from the late Middle Ages, and into the light of the Renaissance.
Prize of Gor Book 27 Page 234
In the interests of advancing a particular political agenda she had had to deny large numbers of the most obvious facts of ethology, biology and anthropology. That went without saying. Ideology and politics were to take priority over such embarrassments as truth and fact; reality was inconvenient; clearly it had not been formed with orthodoxy in mind; nature denied would, of course, exact her vengeance; causes would continue to have their effects; rationality would be sacrificed, intellectual suicide for a rational animal, happiness would be lost, minds would be stunted, miseries multiplied, lives shortened.
Prize of Gor Book 27 Page 394
I also put Ichiro, my signalman, whose ritual suicide I had forbidden weeks ago, into the air, fearing that more might be on the wing than a single fugitive.
Swordsmen of Gor Book 29 Page 317
"Join my guard then, bold, outspoken swordsman," said the shogun. "I would have such a sword at my side."
"It has been lifted, in war," said Nodachi.
"To attack me," said the shogun, "is suicide, even if I do not draw my blade."
Rebels of Gor Book 33 Pages 478 - 479
But then I searched using the words "kill myself" and sure enough, there is a reference to a Free Woman threatening to kill herself to avoid becoming a slave.
"I will kill myself first," cried Aphris, posing the quiva over her heart.
Kamchak shrugged.
The girl did not slay herself. "No," she cried, "I will slay you."
"Much better," said Kamchak, nodding. "Much better."
"I have a knife!" cried out Aphris.
"Obviously," said Kamchak. He then got up and walked rather heavily over to one wall of the wagon and took a slave whip from the wall.
He faced Aphris of Turia.
"Sleen!" she wept. She threw back her hand with the knife to rush forward and thrust it into the heart of Kamchak but the coil of the whip lashed forth and I saw its stinging tip wrap four times about the wrist and forearm of the Turian girl who cried out in sudden pain and Kamchak had stepped to the side and with a motion of his hand had thrown her off balance and then by the whip dragged her rudely over the rug to his feet. There he stepped on her wrist and removed the knife from her open hand. He thrust it in his belt.
"Slay me!" wept the girl. "I will not be your slave!"
Nomads of Gor Book 4 Page 142
I wish you well,
Fogaban
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