“You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.”

— Jack Vance , Lyonesse Trilogy

Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 16, section 3 (p. 635)

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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

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