Thousands of scrolls, organized and catalogued The last few days had been full ones. Aside from the
markets and bazaars, and the theaters in the evening, I had
seen much else of Corcyrus as well. It had been pleasant to
walk through the cool halls of the libraries, with their
thousands of scrolls organized and cataloged, and through the galleries
on the avenue of Iphicrates.
Kajira
In most Gorean libraries there is a section containing an incredible
number of scrolls pertaining to the techniques, tactics and strategies of
kaissa It might be mentioned
that the game, as I shall speak of it, for in Gorean it has no other
designation, is extremely popular on Gor, and even children find among
their playthings the pieces of the game; there are numerous clubs and
competitions among various castes and cylinders; careful records of
important games are kept and studied; lists of competitions and
tournaments and their winners are filed in the Cylinder of Documents;
there is even in most Gorean libraries a section containing an incredible
number of scrolls pertaining to the techniques, tactics and strategy of
the game. Almost all civilized Goreans, of whatever caste, play.
Assassins
Gorean libraries tend to be open to men of all castes
The mention here of Second Knowledge information suggests the types of scrolls
that could be found in the libraries for any who looked That there is a third knowledge, that of Priest-Kings, is also a
common belief. The distinctions, however, between knowledge tend to be
somewhat imperfect and artificial. For example, the second knowledge,
while required of the higher castes and not of the lower castes, is not
prohibited to the lower castes. It is not a body of secret or jealously
guarded truths, for example. Gorean libraries, like the tables of Kaissa
tournaments, tend to be open to men of all castes.
Kajira
At least one library described as a beautiful building "Look," he said, pointing, "there is the library of Antisthenes."
"It is beautiful," I said, observing the shaded porticoes, the
slim, lofty pillars, the graceful pediment with its friezes.
Kajira
Libraries contain scrolls of history, battle analysis “So is Dietrich of Tarnburg, of the high city of Tarnburg, some two
hundred pasangs to the north and west of Hochburg, both substantially
mountain fortresses, both in the more southern and civilized ranges of
the Voltai, was well-known to the warriors of Gor. His name was almost
a legend. It was he who had won the day on the fields of both Piedmont
and Cardonicus, who had led the Forty Days’ March, relieving the siege
of Talmont, who had effected the crossing of the Issus in 10,122 C.A.,
in the night evacuation of Keibel Hill, when I had been in Torvaldsland,
and who had been the victor in the battles of Rovere, Kargash, Edgington,
Teveh Pass, Gordon Heights, and the Plains of Sanchez. His
campaigns were studied in all the war schools of the high cities.
I knew him from scrolls I had studied years ago in
Ko-ro-ba, and from volumes in my library in Port Kar , such as the
commentaries of Minicius and the anonymous analyses of “The Diaries,”
sometimes attributed to the military historian, Carl Commenius, of
Argentum, rumored to have once been a mercenary himself.
Mercenaries
Private Libraries
In the Slver House of Cernus, among other rooms to support a business
with 4 - 6 thousand slaves at a time, a library is mentioned I have already mentioned the baths in the House of Cernus, which can
rival some of the pools in the gigantic Capacian Baths, the finest of
known Gor. 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; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live
in the House; its library, its records and files; its cubicles for
Smiths, Bakers, Cosmeticians, Bleachers, Dyers, Weavers and Leather
Workers; its wardrobe and jewelry chambers; its tarncots, two of them,
opening by means of vast portals to tarn perches fixed in the side of
the cylinder; its training rooms, both for slaves and for guards, and
for those learning the trade of the slaver; recreation rooms for the
staff; eating places; and, of course, various pens, kennels and retention
facilities; as well as a chamber in which slaves are processed, collared
and branded; deliveries to the House of Cernus, both of foodstuffs and
materials, and slaves, are frequent; it is not unusual that a hundred
slaves be received in a given day; the total number of slaves in the
house at any one time, a shifting population, of course, tends to be
between four and six thousand.
Gorean Libraries
