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For the Gorean, a City is almost a living thing, or more than a living thing. It is an entity with a history, as stones and rivers do not have history; it is an entity with a tradition, a heritage, customs, practices, character, intentions, hopes.
This love of their City tends to become invested in a stone which is known as the Home Stone, and which is normally kept in the highest cylinder in a City. The Home Stone--sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the City was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jeweled-incrested cube of marble or granite--the City finds its symbol. The myths of these matters have it that while the Home Stone survives, so too, must the City.
Outlaw of Gor pgs 22-23 |
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