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Tales of Nevèrÿon

Tales of Nevèrÿon

Tales of Nevèrÿon is a collection of five sword and sorcery stories by Samuel R. Delany published in 1978. It is the first of the four-volume Return to Nevèrÿon series and contains the stories "The Tale of Gorgik," "The Tale of Old Venn," "The Tale of Small Sarg," "The Tale of Potters and Dragons," and "The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers."


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“You mean I’ve come all this way to kill a man, and you tell me he’s gone?”

Section 3 (p. 183)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)

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“The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.”

Source: Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979), Chapter 3, “The Tale of Small Sarg” Section 3 (p. 140)

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