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To paraphrase the Reverend Mother.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Jul 6th, 2010 at 06:23:48 PM EST
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Are you suggesting we need to find the Kumquat Hatrack?

:-D

by ATinNM on Tue Jul 6th, 2010 at 10:52:54 PM EST
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Something like that!

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Jul 6th, 2010 at 11:33:51 PM EST
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An Official™ SF LitCrit kinda guy friend of mine stoutly maintains the underlying point of the Dune series¹ is:

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!

by ATinNM on Wed Jul 7th, 2010 at 12:12:58 AM EST
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I thought it was 'Never be ruled by worms'?
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Jul 7th, 2010 at 06:17:53 AM EST
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And there was me thinking the underlying point was

Don't read past the first volume.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jul 7th, 2010 at 06:41:54 AM EST
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You didn't like The God Emperor of Dune and the Certified Public Accountants of Arrakis?

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.

;-)

by ATinNM on Wed Jul 7th, 2010 at 12:03:52 PM EST
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Im sorry I just couldn't read past return of the sun of the god king emperor of dune

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.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jul 7th, 2010 at 12:48:17 PM EST
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