From "The Genre Artist," by Carlo Rotella, in The New York Times ,
published online on July 15, 2009 —
"Dan Simmons, the best-selling writer of horror and fantasy,
described discovering Vance as 'a revelation for me, like
coming to Proust or Henry James. Suddenly you’re in the
deep end of the pool.'"
Another approach to the deep end:
This journal on the above date— July 15, 2009—
and also on Sunday, May 26, 2013, the date of Vance's death —
"This nothing's more than matter." —Laertes in Hamlet
Midrash for theologians:
Rotella's article was published in print a few days later in
The New York Times Magazine of Sunday, July 19, 2009.
See this journal on that date for "Finite Jest," with some
remarks by Pascal related to the above quote from Hamlet .
"There is pansies, that's for thoughts." —Ophelia