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| REREAD DUNE |
DUNE is a different book from the one you read long ago. completely different. Then it was prescient sci fi that we all loved. Now it is our world today and the one coming at us faster and faster..
The terrible truth is who were we when we missed it completely to go about living our lives blindly. The multitude of lives blindly lived that got us here when we were carefully told in a way we could understand, love and relate to.
You will read it today and wonder who the hell you were when you read it before. Who was that person you called you?
The words are still the same words on the printed page. But the MEANING is totally different. Is there any discussion now that the TEXT conveys the MEANING instead of Continental Philosophy saying that the
MEANING RESIDES IN THE MIND OF THE READER.
Halleck murmured, “For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.”
Appendix I
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
Pardot Kynes, first Planetologist of Arrakis
There is no escape _ we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
