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« A symbolism must have existed in this confused set of dimensions, shapes and proportions, he thought; a technological civilization cannot be conceived without the mastery of a minimum of abstractions. »
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Jack Vance
Asutra |
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Jack Vance
Asutra
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« Man enters the world through the genital portal: an original smear from which the Chilite unravels, like a snake that moults, by means of purifications and attitudes, but which ordinary men keep in them, like a stinking incub, until the grave! »
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Jack Vance
The Chronicles of Durdane, Volume 1: The Faceless Man |
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Jack Vance
The Chronicles of Durdane, Volume 1: The Faceless Man
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« This was how Turjan began his apprenticeship with Pandelume. By day, and late in the opalescent night of Embelyon, he was working under the invisible tutelage of the sorcerer. He learned the secret of renewed youth, many spells of the ancients, as well as a strange abstract science that Pandelume called "mathematics". »
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Jack Vance
A magical world |
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Jack Vance
A magical world
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