There's a wonderful and transparent compactness to Vance's work. He can accomplish in 30K words what would take other writers 60K, with no apparent loss of meaning.
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Dana Paxson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Vance is a marvelous model for me. All it took for me was ONE of his > lines in a story of his, Morreion, in which Xexamedes the archveult is > answering his interrogators: > > "I come, I go, I savor the sweet airs of Earth." > > With that single line, Vance taught me to forget about genres and write, > just write. > > !!!! > > Dana > > > delancey wrote: > > Today's (7/19) NYT Magazine has a very nice article about Jack Vance. > > It's -- shock! -- very respectful. The www site has it here: > > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19Vance-t.html?_r=1&sq=jack%20vance&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all > > > > If that doesn't work you can search their www site. > > > > cd > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
