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Notice this rent in my garment I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

Jack Vance

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Jack Vance
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2013
Died: May 26
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
San Francisco County
California
John Holbrook Vance
Jack Vance
John H. Vance
Loss
Existence
Garment
Universe
Puzzled
Even
Garments
Rent
Notice
Explain
Presence

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