Somewhere beneath him, the pre-spice mass had accumulated enough water and organic matter from the little makers, had reached the critical stage of wild growth. A gigantic bubble of carbon dioxide was forming deep in the sand, heaving upward in an enormous “blow” with a dust whirlpool at its center. It would exchange what had been formed deep in the sand for whatever lay on the surface. The.
There are some things no one can bear. I meddled in all the possible futures I could create until, finally, they created me.
The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn’t they?
To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat’s choice? He.
Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.
But that’s the function I expect of you, cousin. It’s why I chose you. I’ll make it official. I will give you a new name. From this moment, you’ll be called Breaking of the Habit, which in our tongue is Harq al-Ada. Come, cousin, don’t be obtuse. My mother taught you well. Give me your Sardaukar.
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.