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发帖数: 31 | 1 Appendix III Report on Bene Gesserit Motives and purposes
Here follows an excerpt from the Summa prepared for
her own agents at the request of the Lady Jessica immediately
after the Arrakis Affair, The candor of this
report amplifies its value far beyond the ordinary.
Because the Bene Gesserit operated for centuries behind the
blind of a semi-mystic school while carrying on their selective
breeding program among humans, we tend to award them with
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发帖数: 278 | 2 Appendix III: Report on Bene Gesserit Motives and Purposes
Here follows an excerpt from the Summa prepared by her own
agents at the request of the Lady Jessica immediately after
the Arrakis Affair. The candor of this report amplifies its
value far beyond the ordinary.
Because the Bene Gesserit operated for centuries behind
the blind of a semi-mystic school while carrying on their
selective breeding program among humans, we tend to award
them with more status than they appear to deserve. Anal |
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发帖数: 31 | 3 A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate
care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the
Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of
Muad'Dib, then, take care that you first place him in his
time: born in the 57th year of the Padishah Emperor,
Shaddam IV. And take the most special care that you
locate MuadDib in his place: the planet Arrakis. Do not
be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan and
lived his first fifteen years there. Arrakis, the pla |
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发帖数: 278 | 4 Book 1
DUNE
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A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care
that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene
Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Muad'Dib,
then, take care that you first place him in his time: born
in the 57th year of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV. And
take the most special care that you locate Muad'Dib in his
place: the planet Arrakis. Do not be deceived by the fact
that he was born on Caladan and lived his first fifteen
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发帖数: 278 | 5 With the Lady Jessica and Arrakis, the Bene Gesserit system
of sowing implant-legends through the Missionaria Protectiva
came to its full fruition. The wisdom of seeding the known
universe with a prophecy pattern for the protection of B.G.
personnel has long been appreciated, but never have we seen
a condition-ut-extremis with more ideal mating of person and
preparation. The prophetic legends had taken on Arrakis even
to the extent of adopted labels (including Reverend Mother,
canto and respondu |
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发帖数: 278 | 6 Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the
necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know
the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that
Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in
how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic
trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many
people do not believe they can learn, and how many more
believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every
experience carries its lesson.
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发帖数: 278 | 7 On that first day when Muad'Dib rode through the streets of
Arrakeen with his family, some of the people along the way
recalled the legends and the prophecy and they ventured to
shout: "Mahdi!" But their shout was more a question than a
statement, for as yet they could only hope he was the one
foretold as the Lisan al-Gaib, the Voice from the Outer
World. Their attention was focused, too, on the mother,
because they had heard she was a Bene Gesserit and it was
obvious to them that she was like t |
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发帖数: 278 | 8 Book Two
MUAD'DIB
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When my father, the Padishah Emperor, heard of Duke Leto's
death and the manner of it, he went into such a rage as we
had never before seen. He blamed my mother and the compact
forced on him to place a Bene Gesserit on the throne. He
blamed the Guild and the evil old Baron. He blamed everyone
in sight, not excepting even me, for he said I was a witch
like all the others. And when I sought to comfort him,
saying it was done according to an older law of
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发帖数: 278 | 9 The hands move, the lips move --
Ideas gush from his words,
And his eyes devour!
He is an island of Selfdom.
-description from "A Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess
Irulan
Phosphortubes in the faraway upper reaches of the cavern
cast a dim light onto the thronged interior, hinting at the
great size of this rock-enclosed space . . . larger, Jessica
saw, than even the Gathering Hall of her Bene Gesserit
school. She estimated there were more than five thousand
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发帖数: 278 | 10 Truth suffers from too much analysis.
-Ancient Fremen Saying
"Reverend Mother, I shudder to see you in such
circumstances," Irulan said.
She stood just inside the cell door, measuring the
various capacities of the room in her Bene Gesserit way. It
was a three-meter cube carved with cutterays from the veined
brown rock beneath Paul's Keep. For furnishings, it
contained one flimsy basket chair occupied now by the
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, a pallet with a brown
cover upon which ha |
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发帖数: 278 | 11 The most dangerous game in the universe is to govern from an
oracular base. We do not consider ourselves wise enough or
brave enough to play that game. The measures detailed here
for regulation in lesser matters are as near as we dare
venture to the brink of government. For our purposes, we
borrow a definition from the Bene Gesserit and we consider
the various worlds as gene pools, sources of teachings and
teachers, sources of the possible. Our goal is not to rule,
but to tap these gene pools, t |
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发帖数: 278 | 12 melange (me'-lange also ma,lanj) n-s, origin uncertain
(thought to derive from ancient Terran Franzh): a. mixture
of spices; b. spice of Arrakis (Dune) with geriatric
properties first noted by Yanshuph Ashkoko, royal chemist in
reign of Shakkad the Wise; Arrakeen melange, found only in
deepest desert sands of Arrakis, linked to prophetic visions
of Paul Muad'Dib (Atreides), first Fremen Mahdi; also
employed by Spacing Guild Navigators and the Bene Gesserit.
-Dictionary Royal fifth edition
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发帖数: 278 | 13 Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward
aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known
to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops,
government tends more and more to act exclusively in the
interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be
hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or
entrenched bureaucracy.
-Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training
Manual
"Why does he make us this offer?" Farad'n asked. "That's
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