Posted by Robert Ruork on December 16, 1997 at 04:49:12:
In Reply to: Garstang posted by Suan Yong on June 17, 1997 at 00:31:53:
: How many times has Vance used the name Garstang?
: At least three comes to mind, and I tend to recall several minor mentions in other novels.
: Suan
: Also, while everyone else seems to to be familiar with the "bottomless pit" notion, only with Vance do we continually encounter what I call the "topless ceiling" - you know, the castles and palaces with the ceilings "so high as to be lost in the gloom" :-D
::re Garstang - First try "Green Magic: The Fantasy Realms of Jack Vance", TOR Books,USA,1979, or, for the more intrepid, the
orginal "The Pilgrims" in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,Mercury Press,USA ,1966. This is Cugel in
yet another attempt to return from banishment -- he struggles, a fellow (the last) Pilgrim, one Garstang, dies. He is one of Vance's more morally dis-atrophied subsidiary characters in this piece, I think.