:-D
Messiahs are a really Bad Thing.
Whether or not that's what Herbert was trying to say - I lack the knowledge to state one way or the other - I submit it's hard to argue against. Seems to me as soon as the Great Sky Father enters reason flees.
¹ With new books STILL being published 14 years after Herbert ate it!
Don't read past the first volume. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Thought the chapter where the The Worm insists on a restructure of the basis of amortization of the Space Guild's ships one of the more moving passages in all of Science Fiction.
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but I'll take your word that its a literary masterwork. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.