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I've not read the books in question, so cannot comment on the review. However, I think the piece is nicely written and captures Vance's output and philosophy very well indeed. This pretty much says who he was and what he was about, I think, as much any single sentence can:
"a humanist, a preacher of doubt and moderation, of reasonable kindness without mandatory compassion, of self-restraint without self-punishment, of minimizing the inevitable sufferings we all cause each other in order to survive"
Yes, that's certainly Vance as I "knew" him.
Thank you for posting it.
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