Jack Vance - The Eyes of the Overworld (1966)

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The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?

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Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real?

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Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

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Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

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And, stretching in languid warmth, she contrived to twist her body into first one luxurious position, then another.

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There can be no doubt as to the facts as I have stated them. Orthodoxy derives from this axiomatic foundation, and the two systems are mutually reinforcing: hence each is doubly validated.

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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

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Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.

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All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.

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"Here you see the pattern from which my great work is derived. It expresses the symbolic significance of NULLITY to which TOTALITY must necessarily attach itself, by Kratinjae's Second Law of Cryptorrhoid Affinities, with which you are possibly familiar." <br.> "Not in every aspect," said Cugel.

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Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.

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Ah! Five hundred years I have toiled to entice this creature, despairing, doubting, brooding by night, yet never abandoning hope that my calculations were accurate and my great talisman cogent. Then, when finally it appears, you fall upon it for no other reason than to sate your repulsive gluttony!

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"Enter, my friend, enter. How goes your trade?"
"In all candor, not too well," said Cugel. "I am both perplexed and disappointed, for my talismans are not obviously useless."

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I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

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