Jack Vance Quote

I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.


Chapter 5, section 3 (p. 430) - Quotations and text from the Lyonesse Trilogy - The Green Pearl (1985)


I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic,...

I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic,...

I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic,...

I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic,...