“Like all power seekers, Pae was amazingly shortsighted. There was a trivial, abortive quality to his mind, it lacked depth, affect, imagination. It was, in fact, a primitive instrument.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin , Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 9 (p. 278)

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