“He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one’s youth.”

—  Jack Vance , book Space Opera

Source: Space Opera (1965), Chapter 13 (p. 130)

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