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The Walls of Kassau
By: guest4 Date: January 30, 2021, 1:47 am
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Mending Wall
By Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors
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Re: The Walls of Kassau
By: guest4 Date: January 30, 2021, 2:01 am
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From Jack Donovan's the way of Men. I do not agree with all
of Donovan's musings, but I like this.
The Perimeter
You are part of a small human group fighting to stay alive.
The reason why does not matter.
Conquest, war, death, hunger or disease - any of the Horsemen
will do.
You could be our primal ancestors, you could be pioneers, you
could be stranded in some remote location, you could be
survivors of a nuclear holocaust or the zombie apocalypse.
Again, it doesn't matter. For humans without access to
advanced technology, the scenario plays out more or less the
same way.
You have to define your group. You need to define who is in and
who is out, and you need to identify potential threats. You need
to create and maintain some sort of safe zone around the
perimeter of your group. Everyone will have to contribute to the
group's survival in some way unless the group agrees to
protect and feed someone who cannot contribute due to age or
illness. For those who can work, you will need to decide who
does what, based on what they are good at, who works well
together, and what makes the most practical sense.
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Re: The Walls of Kassau
By: guest4 Date: January 30, 2021, 2:24 am
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Dangers of The Northern Forests
These are passages from Luther's essay on the Northern
Forrests
The forests are also the home to many different animals
including panthers, sleens, tabuk, tarsk and hith. In addition,
the forests are the haven for various outlaws, including panther
girls, and the forest people. The forest people are an
indigenous people who have chosen to reside within the great
forests. Little is said of them in the books. Due to the various
animals and peoples of the forests, it can be a very perilous
area to visit.
Panther girls attempt to capture and enslave any men who enter
the forests. Obviously, they will avoid large groups of
well-armed men, preferring to attack lone men or those in small
groups. If they do capture a man, they commonly shave a strip
down his heads. The strip is about two to two and a half inches
wide and is done to humiliate them, to mark them as having been
captured by a panther girl. It is called the degradation stripe.
Men who escape from the panther girls may wear a hat to cover
their shame until the hair grows back.
The northern forests can provide much excitement to your
role-play. Hunting expeditions are a primary activity in this
region and the many dangers of the forests will make it even
more thrilling. The forests are also immense and can hide many
different matters. Escaped criminals may be hidden within its
depths. Lost treasures may be secreted away in its expanses.
Interaction with outlaws or panther girls at exchange points or
within the forests can also lead to enjoyment. Don't
restrict your role-play to taverns and cities. Get out into the
wilderness and explore the varied world of Gor.
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Re: The Walls of Kassau
By: Hunter Date: January 30, 2021, 3:37 am
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I thank You for sharing all of this Brother...there is so much
to think on and we are not only thinking in roleplay terms. Not
just about Gor and those values and that world we build. It is a
life thing.
Our blood runs and we fight and love if life is kind. If it is
unkind a human exists and breathes but as a mere shell.
For Me poetry is so often philosophy couched in a non academic
language of mystery yet lucid and clear when examined. It comes
from the curious mind of creation.
All philosophy amounts to one thing, finding a meaning to human
existence.
I studied a book years back and wrote a long essay on it. I wil
see if I can recall its name. Perhaps even find the essay in My
papers. It was about a city within walls and the dangers to any
society and to art that a wall can be . And the dangers when
there is no wall.
Jarl Hunter
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Re: The Walls of Kassau
By: ellusive Date: January 31, 2021, 1:32 am
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This passage below really resonates with me Master Boks, but not
specifically as it is written but more now than ever in these
times where we are living with this viral pandemic.
It makes me realise how precious people are and how we have to
nurture those relationships that we took for granted and also
the relationships that are toxic to us, so many people are
finding the true nature of self in the lonely spaces of time
spent where you have no option but to reflect, both inwardly and
outwardly
i know my meaning is more personal and not to the point of Your
post but i thought id share regardless and bears thought to how
people can all read the same thing and all interpret it so
differently
el
simply a slave
"You have to define your group. You need to define who is in and
who is out, and you need to identify potential threats. You need
to create and maintain some sort of safe zone around the
perimeter of your group. Everyone will have to contribute to the
group's survival in some way unless the group agrees to protect
and feed someone who cannot contribute due to age or illness.
For those who can work, you will need to decide who does what,
based on what they are good at, who works well together, and
what makes the most practical sense."
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