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What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.
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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
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You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.
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Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.
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Born:
August 28, 1916
Died:
May 26, 2013
(aged 96)
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John Holbrook "Jack" Vance was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer.
Known for:
The Dying Earth (1950)
The Eyes of the Overworld (1966)
Cugel's Saga (1983)
The Dragon Masters (1962)
Emphyrio (1969)
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