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272 | Hello, say, a question was asked about "Glasses" on Gor.
To my knowledge there were none mentioned specifically but can't recall if they were spoken of , off handedly ?
Any insight would be appreciated.
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I suppose you are not asking about the "long glass of the Builders" as this devise is mentioned many times throughout the series. For instance here:
From the stern castle of the Dorna, then, with a long glass of the builders, I observed, far across the waters, the masts of the ram-ships, one by one, lowering.
Raiders of Gor    Book 6    Page 197
I also suppose you are not asking about sunglasses as the only time these are mentioned is back on Earth. For instance here:
"I wore boots, and a skirt and short-sleeved blouse," she said, "and a helmet, of lightweight material, to protect me from the sun. Too, I wore sunglasses, pieces of colored glass sometimes worn by those of Earth before their eyes, sometimes to guard their expressions and features, but usually to reduce the glare of a bright sun."
Explorers of Gor    Book 13    Page 320
Or spectacles, which are also only mentioned back on Earth. As shown here:
I discovered, to my dismay, that being English does not automatically qualify one as an authority on English history. Fortunately, my departmental chairman, a gentle, bespectacled man, whose specialty was American economic history, knew even less than I did, or, at least, was considerate enough to allow me to believe so.
Tarnsman of Gor    Book 1    Page 11
"This coin, or medal, or whatever it is, is very puzzling," had said the gentle, bespectacled man, holding it by the edges with white, cotton gloves, and then placing it down on the soft felt between us.
Kajira of Gor    Book 19    Page 10
So, the only type of glasses on Gor, mentioned within the series, is the type of spectacles on a stick known as lorgnon or lorgnette. As shown here:
There, now, on the summit, was not only the guard and the other work slave, now kneeling, with her head down to the sand, but the overseer, and a palanquin, with eight bearers, and a man in silken robes, fat and bald, who reclined upon it, holding a short-stemmed lorgnon, in his right hand. Swiftly I knelt, covered with sand, in my chains, before the palanquin, doing obeisance.
"Look up," said the overseer.
The fellow regarded me through the lorgnon.
"This," said the overseer, "is the girl, Tuka, who served your supplier, Tyrrhenius, in Argentum. We had her purchased, following your policy, for a tarsk bit over her former selling price. We had her brought here, as we thought would please you, to the black chain. We are gratified that this should have coincided with your tour of inspection."
The overseer gestured to the guard and he opened my tunic, and pulled it back. I saw the lorgnon lift a little.
"As you might surmise," said the overseer, "she was an excellent lure girl. She figured in the entrapment of twenty-three of the prisoners below."
I trembled, kneeling in the soft, warm sand, it up about my thighs.
"You may greet your master," said the overseer to me.
"Greetings, Master," I said.
The man in the palanquin made a small gesture with the lorgnon, hardly a movement.
Dancer of Gor    Book 22    Pages 328 - 329
My opened tunic was thrust back on both sides, I, half submerged in the sand, put my head back, looking up, and back. I could see the figures, and the palanquin, seemingly small, seemingly far above me, seemingly far away from me on the ridge. I thought my master, Ionicus, of Cos, might be looking at me, through the lorgnon.
Dancer of Gor    Book 22    Page 335
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