I am not the man for this sort of business; I detest puzzlement. - Jack Vance

“Anacho, my friend,” said Reith, “you have a great deal to learn. The process will come as an appalling shock to you.”

“I wonder, sir, if you’d be good enough to advise me.”
“Certainly, within the limits of discretion,” said Eubanq. “I should warn you, however, that free advice is usually not worth its cost.”

The Rhune is not a likable man. He is so sensitive as to be truculent; he is contemptuous of all other races than the Rhune. He is self-centered, arrogant, unsympathetic in his judgments.