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Eric Larsen
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Love the dialogue here: Aillas learned that recondite art of the Galician bandits: knife throwing. "This use of the knife," stated Tauncy, "is neither courteous or knightly. It is, rather, the desperado's resource, a ploy of the man who must kill to survive the evening."
— Aug 06, 2014 02:19PM
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Eric Larsen
is on page 320 of 448
100% convinced of Jack Vance's writing ability as superb. It is a mystery to me why his writing is so hard to find in print these days.
— Dec 19, 2014 09:00PM
Eric Larsen
is on page 87 of 448
Tauncy continues his lecture: "You are sauntering along the back streets of Avallon; you step into a tavern for a cup of wine. A great lummox claims that you have molested his wife; he takes up his cutlass and comes at you. So now! With your knife! Draw and throw! All in a single movement! You advance, pull your knife from the villian's neck, wipe it on his sleeve. In fact you have molested the dead churl's wife.."
— Aug 06, 2014 02:23PM
Eric Larsen
is on page 41 of 448
Wow. Even after having just recently visited the ye olde torture museum at the Renaissance festival, Vance just casually did one better in his narrative here.
— Jul 11, 2014 03:44PM
Eric Larsen
is on page 40 of 448
If I lived in the Elder Isles, I would have been consigned to "the rocks west of the Chale [where] crawled cripples, lepers, and the weak-minded, in accordance with the statutes of Lyonesse." Thank goodness for not having that.
— Jul 11, 2014 03:22PM
