## Metadata - Author: [[Jack Vance]] - Full Title: Cugel - Category: #books ## Highlights - “Two hours of loose philosophizing will never tilt the scale against the worth of one sound belch. ([Location 2415](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008847CRE&location=2415)) - “Very well,” said Cugel. “I will ride with you to Taun Tassel, but you must accept these three terces in full, exact, final, comprehensive and complete compensation for the ride and every other aspect, adjunct, by-product and consequence, either direct or indirect, of the said ride, renouncing every other claim, now, and forever, including all times of the past and future, without exception, and absolving me, in part and in whole, from any and all further obligations.” ([Location 5540](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008847CRE&location=5540)) - After draining his goblet, Vasker voiced a generalization: “Without urgent goals, life is insipid!” Disserl also tilted his goblet high, then responded to his brother: “I believe that this thought has been enunciated before. A surly critic might even use the word ‘banality’.” Vasker replied in even tones: “These are the ideas which true originality rediscovers and renews, for the benefit of mankind. I stand by my remark! Cugel, do you concur?” Cugel signalled the sylphs to the better use of their decanters. “The intellectual interplay leaves me bewildered; I am quite at a loss. Both viewpoints carry conviction.” ([Location 5714](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008847CRE&location=5714))