Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.
Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?
Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.
Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.
Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?