The Demon Princes 2: The Book of Dreams by Jack Vance

Author:Jack Vance [Vance, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction; American, Revenge, Life on Other Planets
ISBN: 9780312853167
Publisher: Tor
Published: 1989-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

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From the Teaching of Didram Bodo Sime, 66

(Obloquies against the Toper and his Drink)

Motto It is not good to inebriate nor to souse, using swillage, near or far beers, or distillations

Expansion The toper is a fuming bore, a loon, a mongrel, a social mockery. Often he soils his clothes and commits mal- ditties. He smells and belches, his familiarities trouble all decent folk His songs and tirnlavs offend the ears He often gives breath to scurrilous conjecture.

The toper suborns good fruit and gives it to decay, and the good person who wishes to enjoy the samvacity and good savor of the wholesome fruit is bereft and must raise this outcry "Why have you despoiled me, O toper, of my fruit and given it to filthy decay? The toper performs foolish dances He postures like a clown and cleans his ears with broomstraws He is prone to perform pugnacities upon good and earnest folk who chance to halt upon their way to chide him for his fully

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