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Jack Vance, vlastním jménem John Holbrook Vance byl americký důlní inženýr, fyzik, scenárista a spisovatel science fiction, fantasy a detektivních příběhů. Počátky jeho tvorby jsou spojeny s tzv. Zlatým věkem science fiction. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. srpen 1916 – 26. květen 2013   •   Další jména جک ونس, ჯეკ ვენსი
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“Aillas replied that while King Audry cited several points of technical interest, and used the resources of abstract logic in an adroit manner, he had actually made no connection with reality.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 16, section 2 (p. 626)

“Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party—whether he realizes it or not—must always come out the worse.”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

"Morreion" (first published in Flashing Swords #1, March 1973), chapter 4
Dying Earth (1950-1984), Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)

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

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 4, "The Sorcerer Pharesm"

“IF THERE BE HERE LESSON OR MORAL, IT LIES BEYOND THE COMPETENCE OF HIM WHO INSCRIBES THIS RECORD.”

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Jack Vance kniha Emphyrio

Zdroj: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 19

““Are you yourself a Christian?”
The young man made a negative sign. “The concepts of religion baffle me.”
“This inscrutability is perhaps not unintentional,” said the ex-priest. “It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.””

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 1, section 4 (p. 367)

“We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.”

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Jack Vance kniha Space Opera

Zdroj: Space Opera (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 31)

“Shanne said, “You are quiet; are you sad?”
“In a way. Do you know why?”
She put her hand across his mouth. “Never speak of it. What must be, will be. What can never be—can never be.”
Ghyl turned to look at her, trying to divine every last scintilla of her meaning.
“But,” she added in a soft voice, “what can be—can be.””

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Jack Vance kniha Emphyrio

Zdroj: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 12

“Ildefonse said ponderously: "If your analysis is correct, we must undertake to secure the future against this pangynic nightmare."”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

"The Murthe", chapter 2
Dying Earth (1950-1984), Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)

““Dame Fairy of the Silver Eyes: allow me to put you a question, which is this: where should I seek the Holy Grail?”
“Determine its location and go to that spot; that is my wise advice.”
Travante spoke tentatively: “If you could guide me to my lost youth, I would be most grateful.”
Twisk jumped high in the air, pirouetted, settled slowly to the ground. “I am not an index of the world’s worries. I know nothing either of Christian crockery nor truant time! And now: silence!”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 8, section 3 (p. 881)

“Music is like a language: you cannot understand it unless you learn it, or more accurately, are born into it.”

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Jack Vance kniha Space Opera

Zdroj: Space Opera (1965), Chapter 1 (p. 12)

“Kings, like children, tend to be opportunistic. Generosity only spoils them. They equate affability with weakness and hasten to exploit it.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Suldrun's Garden (1983), Chapter 12, section 2 (p. 122)

““Tomorrow?”
“Sh.” She put her hand across his lips. “Never say the word!””

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Jack Vance kniha Emphyrio

Zdroj: Emphyrio (1969), Chapter 12

““I learned a great deal,” said Beran. “And then I lost all heart for further learning.”
Palafox’s eyes glinted. “Education is not achieved through the heart—it is a systematization of the mental processes.”
“But I am something other than a mental process,” said Beran. “I am a man. I must reckon with the whole of myself.””

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Jack Vance kniha The Languages of Pao

Zdroj: The Languages of Pao (1958), Chapter 13 (p. 133)

“I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 5, section 3 (p. 430)

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

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 1, "The Overworld"

“Enough of this intolerable inanity! I propose that such loquacity passes beyond the scope of the nuisance and over the verge of turpitude.”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

"Morreion", chapter 8
Dying Earth (1950-1984), Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)

“I may be called upon to address the company. No one will listen, of course, which is just as well, since I have nothing to say.”

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 10, section 3 (p. 954)

“"I distrusted him from the start! Still, who could imagine such protean depravity?"
Bunderwal, the supercargo, concurred. "Cugel, while plausible, nonetheless is a bit of a scoundrel."”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 2, section 2, "Lausicaa"

“Kergan Banbeck threw up his hands, turned once more to the sacerdote. “How can I halt his nonsense? How can I make him see reason?
The sacerdote reflected. “He speaks not nonsense, but rather a language you fail to understand. You can make him understand your language by erasing all knowledge and training from his mind, and replacing it with patterns of your own.””

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Jack Vance kniha The Dragon Masters

Section 2
The Dragon Masters (1962)

“I can now report that the mathematics of the multiple focus are a most improbable thicket, and the useful service I enforced upon what I must call an absurd set of contradictions is one of my secrets. I know that thousands of scientists, at home and abroad, are attempting to duplicate my work; they are welcome to the effort. None will succeed. Why do I speak so positively? That is my other secret.”

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Jack Vance

Section 3 (p. 169)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)

“It was right and proper to exploit the excellences of the moment, but still, when conditions reached an apex, there was nowhere to go but down.”

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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 2, section 3, "The Ocean of Sighs"

“Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.”

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Jack Vance kniha Showboat World

Zdroj: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 7 (p. 81)

““Tell me, then! What is so important?”
“Your life! I could not bear that you should lose it!”
“I feel much the same. Say on.””

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Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy

Zdroj: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 10, section 2 (p. 948)

“A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.”

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Jack Vance kniha Big Planet

Zdroj: Big Planet (1957), Chapter 3 “Free for All” (p. 31)

“Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.”

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Jack Vance kniha The Dragon Masters

Section 6
The Dragon Masters (1962)

“The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.”

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Jack Vance kniha The Book of Dreams

Quotations and text from the Demon Princes novels, The Book of Dreams

“If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another’s mind.”

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Jack Vance Demon Princes

Zdroj: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Face (1979), Chapter 3 (pp. 17-18)

“Down we go,” said Paddy. “Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic—”
“I'm not,” snapped Fay, “and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.”

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Jack Vance kniha The Five Gold Bands

Zdroj: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 11 (p. 131)

“I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.”

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Jack Vance kniha Showboat World

Zdroj: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 11 (p. 123)

“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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Jack Vance Dying Earth

Zdroj: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 4, "The Sorcerer Pharesm"