“My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.”

—  Jack Vance

Source: Quotations and text from the Dying Earth novels, The Dying Earth (1950), Chapter 6, "Guyal of Sfere"

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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

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