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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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| 35 | "i am looking for a quote that says something about one who can pull back a long bow (or some weapon) can not be a slave."
Answer
Hello,
At first I was unable to locate this quote. Then a girl sent to me it's location within the series and I verified this. Here now is the quote which answers the original question followed by the additional information from my first responce.
Fogaban
He who can bend the longbow, a peasant saying has it, cannot be slave. Women, of course, it might be noted, lack the strength to bend this bow. I suppose if they could bend the bow, the saying would not exist or would be altered.
Slave Girl of Gor Book 11 Page 112
. . . a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows. The bow is not commonly favored by Gorean warriors, but all must respect it. It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incidentally, even some warriors, cannot draw the bow . . .
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Well used, the long bow is a far more devastating weapon than its rival, the crossbow; but few men had the strength and eve to use it well; I prided myself on my skill with the weapon.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Pages 2 - 3
I knew she could not string the bow. I knew, further, that she could not, even were the weapon strung, draw it to the half, but further I knew that, at the range she might fire, the arrow, drawn even to the quarter, might penetrate my back. Accordingly she would follow me bearing the weapon unstrung.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 79
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