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发帖数: 278 | 1 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 | 2 He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the
innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a
man. There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary
standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death
prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say
he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then?
Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle
drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied
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发帖数: 278 | 3 The spirit of Muad'Dib is more than words, more than the
letter of the Law which arises in his name. Muad'Dib must
always be that inner outrage against the complacently
powerful, against the charlatans and the dogmatic fanatics.
It is that inner outrage which must have its say because
Muad'Dib taught us one thing above all others: that humans
can endure only in a fraternity of social justice.
-The Fedaykin Compact
Leto sat with his back against the wall of the hut, his
attention on Sabiha, w |
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发帖数: 278 | 4 Book 1
DUNE
= = = = = =
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 Muad'Dib could indeed, see the Future, but you must
understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You
have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the
floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. Just
so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the
mysterious terrain. He tells us that a single obscure
decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over
another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He
tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when |
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发帖数: 278 | 6 Muad'Dib tells us in "A Time of Reflection" that his first
collisions with Arrakeen necessities were the true
beginnings of his education. He learned then how to pole the
sand for its weather, learned the language of the wind's
needles stinging his skin, learned how the nose can buzz
with sand-itch and how to gather his body's precious
moisture around him to guard it and preserve it. As his eyes
assumed the blue of the Ibad, he learned the Chakobsa way.
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发帖数: 278 | 7 There exists no separation between gods and men: one blends
softly casual into the other.
-Proverbs of Muad'dib
Despite the murderous nature of the plot he hoped to
devise, the thoughts of Scytale, the Tleilaxu Face Dancer,
returned again and again to rueful compassion.
I shall regret causing death and misery to Muad'dib, he
told himself.
He kept this benignity carefully hidden from his fellow
conspirators. Such feelings told him, though, that he found
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发帖数: 278 | 8 "I've had a bellyful of the god and priest business! You
think I don't see my own mythos? Consult your data once
more, Hayt. I've insinuated my rites into the most
elementary human acts. The people eat in the name of
Muad'dib! They make love in my name, are born in my name --
cross the street in my name. A roof beam cannot be raised in
the lowliest hovel of far Gangishree without invoking the
blessing of Muad'dib!"
-Book of Diatribes from The Hayt Chronicle
"You risk much leaving your post a |
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发帖数: 278 | 9 The audacious nature of Muad'dib's actions may be seen in
the fact that He knew from the beginning whither He was
bound, yet not once did He step aside from that path. He put
it clearly when He said: "I tell you that I come now to my
time of testing when it will be shown that I am the Ultimate
Servant." Thus He weaves all into One, that both friend and
foe may worship Him. It is for this reason and this reason
only that His Apostles prayed: "Lord, save us from the other
paths which Muad'dib cove |
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发帖数: 278 | 10 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the sand; and he
had two horns like a lamb, but his mouth was fanged and
fiery as the dragon and his body shimmered and burned with
great heat while it did hiss like the serpent.
-Revised Orange Catholic Bible
He called himself The Preacher, and there had come to be
an awesome fear among many on Arrakis that he might be
Muad'Dib returned from the desert, not dead at all. Muad'Dib
could be alive; for who had seen his body? For that matter,
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发帖数: 278 | 11 This was Muad'Dib's achievement: He saw the subliminal
reservoir of each individual as an unconscious bank of
memories going back to the primal cell of our common
genesis. Each of us, he said, can measure out his distance
from that common origin. Seeing this and telling of it, he
made the audacious leap of decision. Muad'Dib set himself
the task of integrating genetic memory into ongoing
evaluation. Thus did he break through Time's veils, making a
single thing of the future and the past. That wa |
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发帖数: 278 | 12 O Paul, thou Muad'Dib,
Mahdi of all men,
Thy breath exhaled
Sent forth the hurricane.
-Songs of Muad'Dib
"Never!" Ghanima said. "I'd kill him on our wedding
night." She spoke with a barbed stubbornness which thus far
had resisted all blandishments. Alia and her advisors had
been at it half the night, keeping the royal quarters in a
state of unrest, sending out for new advisors, for food and
drink. The entire Temple and its adjoining Keep seethed with
the frustrations of unmade decisions.
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发帖数: 278 | 13 As with so many other religions, Muad'Dib's Golden Elixir of
Life degenerated into external wizardry. Its mystical signs
became mere symbols for deeper psychological processes, and
those processes, of course, ran wild. What they needed was a
living god, and they didn't have one, a situation which
Muad'Dib's son has corrected.
-Saying attributed to Lu Tung-pin, (Lu, The Guest of the
Cavern)
Leto sat on the Lion Throne to accept the homage of the
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发帖数: 82482 | 14 就记得一个Muad'Dib了……
就记得两个词了，水，啸刃刀 |
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发帖数: 82482 | 15 Herbert映射现实，用了一大堆像是阿拉伯语的拼写，好多'''''''，什么Muad'Dib，
Fedaykin'什么的，一开始是有些头大……
在Neal Stephenson的Anathem里面，生造的字至少看起来更希腊一些，感觉就好多了，
当然新造的词更多……
这个当然是科幻巨著
文笔其实也很好，有点艰深，需要点时间入门
我当時一口气看下来
后来过了一段时间，想看续集又看不下去了
有个作弊的方法，先看电视剧，Sean Young还是很pp的 |
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发帖数: 31 | 16 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
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发帖数: 31 | 17 Appendix II. The Religion of Dune
Before the coming of Muad'Dib, the Fremen of Arrakis
practiced a religion whose roots in the Maometh Saari are there for
any scholar to see. Many have traced the extensive borrowings from
other religions. The most common example is the Hymn to Water, a
direct copy from the Orange Catholic Liturgical Manual, calling for
rain clouds which Arrakis had never seen. But there are more
profound points of accord between the Kitab al-lbar |
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发帖数: 278 | 18 Dune
Frank Herbert
Copyright 1965
Book 1
DUNE
Book 2
MUAD'DIB
Book 3
THE PROPHET |
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发帖数: 278 | 19 Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must
combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the
untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these
attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth
endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find
that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become
a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness."
-from "Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan
"Well, Jessica, what have you to say for your |
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发帖数: 278 | 20 YUEH (yu'e), Wellington (weling-tun), Stdrd 10,082-10,191;
medical doctor of the Suk School (grd Stdrd 10,112); md:
Wanna Marcus, B.G. (Stdrd 10,092-10,186?); chiefly noted as
betrayer of Duke Leto Atreides. (Cf: Bibliography, Appendix
VII [Imperial Conditioning] and Betrayal, The.)
-from "Dictionary of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
Although he heard Dr. Yueh enter the training room,
noting the stiff deliberation of the man's pace, Paul
remained stretched out face down on the exercise tab |
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发帖数: 278 | 21 It is said that the Duke Leto blinded himself to the perils
of Arrakis, that he walked heedlessly into the pit. Would it
not be more likely to suggest he had lived so long in the
presence of extreme danger he misjudged a change in its
intensity? Or is it possible he deliberately sacrificed
himself that his son might find a better life? All evidence
indicates the Duke was a man not easily hoodwinked.
-from "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan
The Duke Leto Atreides leaned ag |
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发帖数: 278 | 22 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 | 23 "There is no escape--we pay for the violence of our
ancestors. "
-from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess
Irulan
Jessica heard the disturbance in the great hall, turned
on the light beside her bed. The clock there had not been
properly adjusted to local time, and she had to subtract
twenty-one minutes to determine that it was about 2 A.M.
The disturbance was loud and incoherent.
Is this the Harkonnen attack? she wondered.
She slipped out of bed, checked the scree |
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发帖数: 278 | 24 There should be a science of discontent. People need hard
times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
-from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
Jessica awoke in the dark, feeling premonition in the
stillness around her. She could not understand why her mind
and body felt so sluggish. Skin raspings of fear ran along
her nerves. She thought of sitting up and turning on a
light, but something stayed the decision. Her mouth felt . .
. strange.
Lump-lump-lump-lump!
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发帖数: 278 | 25 There is a legend that the instant the Duke Leto Atreides
died a meteor streaked across the skies above his ancestral
palace on Caladan.
-the Princess Irulan: "Introduction to A Child's History of
Muad'Dib"
The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen stood at a viewport of the
grounded lighter he was using as a command post. Out the
port he saw the flame-lighted night of Arrakeen. His
attention focused on the distant Shield Wall where his
secret weapon was doing its work.
Explosive artillery.
The g |
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发帖数: 278 | 26 O Seas of Caladan,
O people of Duke Leto--
Citadel of Leto fallen,
Fallen forever . . .
-from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
Paul felt that all his past, every experience before
this night, had become sand curling in an hourglass. He sat
near his mother hugging his knees within a small fabric and
plastic hutment--a stilltent--that had come, like the Fremen
clothing they now wore, from the pack left in the 'thopter.
There was no doubt in Paul's mind who had put the
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发帖数: 278 | 27 Book Two
MUAD'DIB
= = = = = =
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 | 28 What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
-from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
"They are dead, Baron," said Iakin Nefud, the guard
captain. "Both the woman and the boy are certainly dead."
The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen sat up in the sleep
suspensors of his private quarters. Beyond these quarters
and enclosing him like a multishelled egg stretched the
space frigate he had grounded on Arrakis. Here in his
quarters, though, the ship's harsh metal was disguised with
drape |
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发帖数: 278 | 29 At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.
-from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
As Paul fought the 'thopter's controls, he grew aware
that he was sorting out the interwoven storm forces, his
more than Mentat awareness computing on the basis of
fractional minutiae. He felt dust fronts, billowings,
mixings of turbulence, an occasional vortex.
The cabin interior was an angry box lighted by the green
radiance of instrument dials. The tan flow of dust outsi |
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发帖数: 278 | 30 We came from Caladan--a paradise world for our form of fife.
There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical
paradise or a paradise of the mind--we could see the
actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price
men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this
life--we went soft, we lost our edge.
-from "Muad'Dib: Conversations" by the Princess Irulan
"So you're the great Gurney Halleck," the man said.
Halleck stood staring across the round cavern office at
the smugg |
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发帖数: 278 | 31 The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called
"spannungsbogen"--which is the self-imposed delay between
desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that
thing.
-from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
They approached Cave of the Ridges at dawnbreak, moving
through a split in the basin wall so narrow they had to turn
sideways to negotiate it. Jessica saw Stilgar detach guards
in the thin dawnlight, saw them for a moment as they began
their scrambling cli |
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发帖数: 278 | 32 God created Arrakis to train the faithful.
-from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
In the stillness of the cavern, Jessica heard the scrape
of sand on rock as people moved, the distant bird calls that
Stilgar had said were the signals of his watchmen.
The great plastic hood-seals had been removed from the
cave's opening. She could see the march of evening shadows
across the lip of rock in front of her and the open basin
beyond. She sensed the daylight leaving them, sensed i |
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发帖数: 278 | 33 The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to
shield us from the terrors of the future.
-from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
On his seventeenth birthday, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
killed his one hundredth slave-gladiator in the family
games. Visiting observers from the Imperial Court--a Count
and Lady Fenring--were on the Harkonnen homeworld of Giedi
Prime for the event, invited to sit that afternoon with the
immediate family in the golden box above the triang |
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发帖数: 278 | 34 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
people gathered out there beneath |
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发帖数: 278 | 35 Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a
logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is
always one step beyond logic.
-from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
I've sat across from many rulers of Great Houses, but
never seen a more gross and dangerous pig than this one,
Thufir Hawat told himself.
"You may speak plainly with me, Hawat," the Baron
rumbled. He leaned back in his suspensor chair, the eyes in
their folds of fat boring into Hawat.
T |
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发帖数: 278 | 36 "Control the coinage and the courts -- let the rabble have
the rest." Thus the Padishah Emperor advises you. And he
tells you: "If you want profits, you must rule." There is
truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble
and who are the ruled?"
-Muad'Dib's Secret Message to the Landsraad from "Arrakis
Awakening" by the Princess Irulan
A thought came unbidden to Jessica's mind: Paul will be
undergoing his sandrider test at any moment now. They try to
conceal this fact from me, bu |
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发帖数: 278 | 37 You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an
orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the
training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox
community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a
community inevitably must face that ultimate internal
question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of
maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for
the sake of the orthodox ethic.
-from "Muad'Dib: The Religious Issues" by the Princess
Irulan
Paul waite |
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发帖数: 278 | 38 When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never
become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are
always a little less than an individual.
-from "Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe" by
Princess Irulan
The smuggler's spice factory with its parent carrier and
ring of drone ornithopters came over a lifting of dunes like
a swarm of insects following its queen. Ahead of the swarm
lay one of the low rock ridges that lifted from the desert
floor like small imitations |
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发帖数: 278 | 39 How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his
inner self is telling him.
-"The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
The crowd in the cavern assembly chamber radiated that
pack feeling Jessica had sensed the day Paul killed Jamis.
There was murmuring nervousness in the voices. Little
cliques gathered like knots among the robes.
Jessica tucked a message cylinder beneath her robe as
she emerged to the ledge from Paul's private quarters. She
felt rested after t |
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发帖数: 278 | 40 And it came to pass in the third year of the Desert War that
Paul-Muad'Dib lay alone in the Cave of Birds beneath the
kiswa hangings of an inner cell. And he lay as one dead,
caught up in the revelation of the Water of Life, his being
translated beyond the boundaries of time by the poison that
gives life. Thus was the prophecy made true that the Lisan
al-Gaib might be both dead and alive.
-"Collected Legends of Arrakis" by the Princess Irulan
Chani came up out of the Habbanya basin in the pr |
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发帖数: 278 | 41 And Muad'Dib stood before them, and he said: "Though we deem
the captive dead, yet does she live. For her seed is my seed
and her voice is my voice. And she sees unto the farthest
reaches of possibility. Yea, unto the vale of the unknowable
does she see because of me."
-from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan
The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen stood with eyes downcast in
the Imperial audience chamber, the oval selamlik within the
Padishah Emperor's hutment. With covert glances, the Baron
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发帖数: 278 | 42 Appendix II: The Religion of Dune
Before the coming of Muad'Dib, the Fremen of Arrakis
practiced a religion whose roots in the Maometh Saari are
there for any scholar to see. Many have traced the extensive
borrowings from other religions. The most common example is
the Hymn to Water, a direct copy from the Orange Catholic
Liturgical Manual, calling for rain clouds which Arrakis had
never seen. But there are more profound points of accord
between the Kitab al-Ibar of the Fremen and the teachi |
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发帖数: 278 | 43 Terminology of the Imperium
In studying the Imperium, Arrakis, and the whole culture
which produced Muad'Dib, many unfamiliar terms occur. To
increase understanding is a laudable goal, hence the
definitions and explanations given below.
ABA: loose robe worn by Fremen women; usually black.
ACH: left turn: a worm-steersman's call.
ADAB: the demanding memory that comes upon you of itself.
AKARSO: a plant native to Sikun (of 70 Ophiuchi A)
characterized by almost oblong leaves. Its green and white
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发帖数: 278 | 44 Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
Copyright 1969
Excerpts from the Death Cell Interview with Bronso of IX
Q: What led you to take your particular approach to a
history of Muad'dib?
A: Why should I answer your questions?
Q: Because I will preserve your words.
A: Ahhh! The ultimate appeal to a historian!
Q: Will you cooperate then?
A: Why not? But you'll never understand what inspired my
Analysis of History. Never. You Priests have too much at
stake to . . .
Q: Try me.
A: Try you? Well, Again . . . why n |
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发帖数: 278 | 45 Such a rich store of myths enfolds Paul Muad'dib, the Mentat
Emperor, and his sister, Alia, it is difficult to see the
real persons behind these veils. But there were, after all,
a man born Paul Atreides and a woman born Alia. Their flesh
was subject to space and time. And even though their
oracular powers placed them beyond the usual limits of time
and space, they came from human stock. They experienced real
events which left real traces upon a real universe. To
understand them, it must be seen |
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发帖数: 278 | 46 Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of
their creation. It is when they have become established that
aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.
It was going to be a bad session, this meeting of the
Imperial Council, Alia realized. She sensed contention
gathering force, storing up energy -- the way Irulan refused
to look at Chani, Stilgar's nervous shuffling of papers, the
scowls Paul directed at Korba the Qizara.
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发帖数: 278 | 47 "Once more the drama begins."
-The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion
Throne
Alia peered down from her spy window into the great
reception hall to watch the advance of the Guild entourage.
The sharply silver light of noon poured through
clerestory windows onto a floor worked in green, blue and
eggshell tiles to simulate a bayou with water plants and,
here and there, a splash of exotic color to indicate bird or
animal.
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发帖数: 278 | 48 Production growth and income growth must not get out of step
in my Empire. That is the substance of my command. There are
to be no balance-of-payment difficulties between the
different spheres of influence. And the reason for this is
simply because I command it. I want to emphasize my
authority in this area. I am the supreme energy-eater of
this domain, and will remain so, alive or dead. My
Government is the economy.
-Order in Council The Emperor Paul Muad'dib
"I will leave you here," the ol |
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发帖数: 278 | 49 He has gone from Alia,
The womb of heaven!
Holy, holy, holy!
Fire-sand leagues
Confront our Lord.
He can see
Without eyes!
A demon upon him!
Holy, holy, holy
Equation:
He solved for
Martyrdom!
-The Moon Falls Down Songs of Muad'dib
After seven days of radiating fevered activity, the Keep
took on an unnatural quiet. On this morning, there were
people about, but they spoke in whispers, heads close
together, and they walked softly. Some scurried with an
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发帖数: 278 | 50 The sequential nature of actual events is not illuminated
with lengthy precision by the powers of prescience except
under the most extraordinary circumstances. The oracle
grasps incidents cut out of the historic chain. Eternity
moves. It inflicts itself upon the oracle and the supplicant
alike. Let Muad'dib's subjects doubt his majesty and his
oracular visions. Let them deny his powers. Let them never
doubt Eternity.
-The Dune Gospels
Hayt watched Alia emerge from her temple and cross the
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