tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post7954336702605502709..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: Been Remiss in my Vance Posts...Big Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-67630204663388513582010-04-28T19:21:20.592-04:002010-04-28T19:21:20.592-04:00Thanks, JP, your excellence knows no bounds.Thanks, JP, your excellence knows no bounds.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-55230920745199117912010-04-27T01:15:46.898-04:002010-04-27T01:15:46.898-04:00Yay Fred!
Only 8 Google-hits for 'lapidary pro...Yay Fred!<br />Only 8 Google-hits for 'lapidary prose' + 'Jack Vance'! It is an outrage!Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-24763905450049004262010-04-26T21:46:26.526-04:002010-04-26T21:46:26.526-04:00By a staggering coincidence, Fred Pohl also has a ...By a staggering coincidence, Fred Pohl also has <a href="http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/04/jack-vance-the-master-of-the-dragons/" rel="nofollow">a post up</a> on Jack Vance.Johnny Pezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07430884010621619176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-88221594102128716852010-04-26T14:22:50.435-04:002010-04-26T14:22:50.435-04:00If the culinary notes that you cite are any guide,...<i>If the culinary notes that you cite are any guide, then I am an adherent of the Sandusk sect without even knowing it till now.</i><br /><br />Well, the limp pink sausages can be found in any supermarket or ballpark in the States.<br /><br />We are all Sanduskers now!Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-59640935077614119512010-04-26T14:18:24.724-04:002010-04-26T14:18:24.724-04:00You two talked me into reading all of this.
You h...<i>You two talked me into reading all of this.</i><br /><br />You have no hope for escape, your assimilation is unavoidable!Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-20851094397096726902010-04-25T20:19:19.032-04:002010-04-25T20:19:19.032-04:00You two talked me into reading all of this.
~You two talked me into reading <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=L2nkDav2B-oC&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=%22You're+a+Sandusker%3F%22+asked+Gersen&source=bl&ots=uA1CNglOlK&sig=wtxid6SyD96Ww6l_ujU0L5_Hg1U&hl=en&ei=RtrUS4O3GIWglAet86XuDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22You're%20a%20Sandusker%3F%22%20asked%20Gersen&f=false" rel="nofollow">all of this</a>.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-83856286009185469462010-04-25T06:01:58.040-04:002010-04-25T06:01:58.040-04:00It is an excellent Vance site to which you link. I...It is an excellent Vance site to which you link. I was particularly chuffed when the author acknowledged Vance's debt to Kai Lung... I was exposed to the Kai Lung stories at an impressionable age (due to Dorothy Sayers' habit of having her characters quote from them off-handedly as if this is a natural accomplishment for any well-educated person), so later encountering Jack Vance was like reclining back into a comfortable, familiar piece of furniture. The two have a shared approach to dialogue in which characters shroud their intentions or views behind a veil of persiflage, and part of the fun for the readier is piercing that veil.<br /><br />Also, the word 'deodar' is linked inextricably in my mind to Dying Earth stories.<br /><br />If the culinary notes that you cite are any guide, then I am an adherent of the Sandusk sect without even knowing it till now.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.com