“Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.”

— Vernor Vinge , A Fire Upon the Deep (1st edition)

Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 2 (p. 18).

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