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Description
Now--the conclusion to Frank Herbert's l3-million-copy epic masterpiece. The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed, and the heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world--and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. "Impressive...the whole saga will be one of... read more
Summary
Introduction
The situation is desperate for the Bene Gesserit as they find themselves the targets of the Honored Matres, whose conquest of the Old Empire is almost complete. The Matres are seeking to assimilate the technology and developed methods of the Bene Gesserit, their "last enemy... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Memorable Quotes
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“Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.”
Bene Gesserit Coda -
“When I set out to lead humanity along my Golden Path I promised a lesson their bones would remember. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.”
Leto II, The God Emperor -
“The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. "I already know the important things!" we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away”
The Zensufi Master -
“We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.”
Bene Gesserit Coda -
“You cannot know history unless you know how leaders move with its currents. Every leader requires outsiders to perpetuate his leadership. Examine my career: I was leader and outsider. Do not assume I merely created a Church-State. That was my function as leader and I copied historical models. Barbaric arts of my time reveal me as outsider. Favorite poetry: epics. Popular dramatic ideal: heroism. Dances: wildly abandoned. Stimulants to make people sense what I took from them. What did I take? The right to choose a role in history.”
Leto II (The Tyrant) -
“You cannot manipulate a marionette with only one string.”
The Zensunni Whip -
“Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.”
Darwi Odrade -
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”
Missionaria Protectiva -
“The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.”
The Bashar Teg -
“Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.”
Mentat Text Two (dicto)
First Sentence
When the ghola-baby was delivered from the first Bene Gesrit axlotl tank, mother Superior Darwi Odrade ordered a quiet celebration in her private dining room atop Central.
Table of Contents
Series
This is book 6 in the Dune Chronicles series.
Authors & Contributors
- Frank Herbert (Author)
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