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Civitatis Ar, Plus!
Boards / News
State
"Here it is," said Marcus, calling
back to me, "on the public boards." The public boards are posting areas,
found at many points in Ar, usually in plazas and squares. These boards
were along the Avenue of the Central Cylinder , and were state boards, on
which official communiqués, news releases, announcements and such, could
be posted. Some boards are maintained by private persons, who sell space
on them for advertising, notifications, and personal messages. To be sure,
many folks, presumably poorer folks, or at least folks less ready to part
with a tarsk bit, simply inscribe their messages, in effect as graffiti,
on pillars, walls of buildings, and such. Too, posters, and such, usually
hand-inked, are common in public places, usually put up by the owners or
managers of palestrae, or gymnasiums, public baths, taverns, race courses,
theaters, and such. Sales of tharlarion and slaves, too, are commonly
thusly advertised. Heralds and criers, too, and carriers of signs, are not
unknown. Some proprietors rent space in their shops or places of business
for small postings. So, too, similarly, some homeowners who live on busy
streets charge a fee for the use of their exterior walls. There are many
other forms of communication and advertising as well, such as the parades
of acrobats, jugglers, clowns, animal trainers, mimes and such, and the
passage of flatbedded display wagons through the streets on which snatches
of performances, intended to whet the viewer's interests, are presented,
or, say, slaves are displayed usually decorously clad, in connection with
imminent sales at various markets and barns. The viewer, or the male
viewer, at any rate, understands that the decorous attire of the imbonded
beauties of the moving platform is not likely to be worn in the exposition
cages or on the block. There is a Gorean saying that only a fool buys a
woman clothed. On these platforms the women are usually chained only by an
ankle, that there will be but little interference with their movements and
their appeals to the crowds. On the other hand, some owners, who prefer
more obvious restraints for their women, who are, after all, slaves, use
flatbedded wagons with mounted slave bars of various sorts, sometimes with
intricate chainings or couplings. Similarly, stout, multiply locked cage
wagons may be used for a similar purpose.
"I see," I said, reading the boards.
"I have heard," said a man, near me, speaking to another, "that many other
free women, like Talena herself, have offered themselves as slaves, that
the city be spared."
"There is nothing to that effect here on the public boards," said the
other fellow.
"True," said the first.
"Read to me," begged a fellow looking up at the boards. "I cannot read.
What does it say?" MAGICIANS OF GOR-, (25) Pages 75-76
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A rich, yet utterly simple saga; a world, a time, a people;
those of the Counter-Earth .. the planet .. Gor.
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