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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

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
Always
Chords
Like
Serenity
Multiplex
Elements
Crystalline
Either
Resolving
Fall
Prevails
Science
Symmetry
Away
Explicit
Art
Equations

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