3 Jack Vance Quotes on Value

Jack Vance quotes on value

12. All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.

16. My talismans are not obviously useless.

29. 'What are your fees?' inquired Guyal cautiously. 'I respond to three questions,' stated the augur. 'For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.' - From 'Guyal of Sfere', The Dying Earth.