The symbologist made a cryptic sign. “That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.” - Jack Vance
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The symbologist made a cryptic sign. “That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.”
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Jack Vance
John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, who wrote the four-book Dying Earth series.
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Ellery Queen
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John van See
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Jay Kavanse
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Urbanized men and women experience not life but the abstraction of life, on ever higher levels of refinement and dislocation from reality. They become processors of ideas, and have evolved such esoteric occupations as the critic, the critic who criticizes criticism, and even the critic who criticizes criticism of criticism. It is a very sad misuse of human talent and energy.
