There’s another thing, Jessica thought. Paul must be cautioned about their women. One of these desert women would not do as wife to a Duke. As concubine, yes, but not as wife.
Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
Paul stepped past her, lifting his binoculars. He adjusted their internal pressure with a quick twist, focused the oil lenses on the other cliff, lifting golden tan in morning light across open sand. Jessica.
I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.
This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow’s life. I live now for my young Duke and the daughter yet to be. She.
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She’s the One all right,” she muttered. “Poor thing.
Surely not a palm lock, she told herself. A palm lock must be keyed to one individual’s hand shape and palm lines. But it looked like a palm lock. And there were ways to open any palm lock – as she had learned at school.
It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He.
Gurney says there’s no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.
Beware jargon. It usually hides ignorance and carries little knowledge.
They’ve also sent some incidental things – jewelry for the Lady Jessica, spice liquor, candy, medicinals. My men are processing the lot right now.
Dune was a world of paradox now – a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
It is another kind of marriage – the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat’s explanation and his excuse.
You see, Count, I have the Emperor’s prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me.” The.
How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?” Paul asked. “There’s a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they’d bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn’t it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How.
Then came the Butlerian Jihad – two generations of chaos. The god of machine-logic was overthrown among the masses and a new concept was raised: “Man may not be replaced.” Those.
You seldom learn the names of the truly wealthy and powerful. You see only their spokesmen. The political arena makes a few exceptions to this but does not reveal the full power structure.
Where Thufir Hawat goes, death and deceit follow.
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.