Ahira's Hangar

At the beginning of all the chapters in Dune, there are snippets and quotes of various works said to be written about Muad'Dib and the history of the time.

What are some of your favorites? Here is mine:
Quote:It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.
—The Commentaries, Dune
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Here is one of mine:

Quote:What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
~from the "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Hell, I like so many of these, and still don't have one handy.

The only one I remember verbatim is:

Quote:"Yueh, Yueh Yueh," went the refrain, "a million deaths were not enough for Yueh!" -From a Childs History of Maud'Dib.

But that's by no means one of my favourites. I'll have to transcribe a few.

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A sense of the sardonic preserves a man from believing in his own pretensions. -The Sayings Of Maud'Dib<i></i>

My Favorite that i remember verbatim:
The Fremen see her as the Earth Figure,a demi-goddess whose special charge is to protect the tribes through her powers of violence.She is Reverend Mother to their Reverend Mothers.To pilgrims who seek her out with demands that she restore virilty or make the barren fruitful,she is a form of antimentat.She feeds on that proof that the "analytic"has limits.She represents ultimate tension.She is the virgin-harlot--witty,vulgar,cruel.as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm.

St. Alia Of The Knife
as taken from the Irulan Report

I hate to sound chauvanistic at this point(sorry,Duchess)
But man she sounds like a wife........ <i></i>

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Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i></i>

No offense taken at all. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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I'm glad Duchess,think about it,(yes,it's another strange viewpoint by a guy)but the overall attitude in Dune is that women play a secondary role.Never mind that when it all boils down to it that men depend upon women for EVERYTHING that for some reason men think they are the higher life form.....
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Yes, it's an irony that men seem to often overlook.

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