"Yueh! Yueh! Yueh!" goes the refrain. "A million deaths were not enough for Yueh!" ~ from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
At the beginning of this short chapter, Lady Jessica is in search of her son, and finds Dr. Yueh in a sort of ante-chamber right by his (Paul's) bedroom door. The two of them converse, and each shows a bit of his/her character and motivations:
* Jessica wishes for security.
* Yueh wishes for certainty.
* Yueh loves the Atreides, though he wished he could hate them. And he hates the Harkonnen, bitterly and passionately.
* Yueh hopes to get vengeance on the Baron in the Baron's moment of triumph.
* Jessica sees Dune as a huge trap, and a place of death.
* Yueh sees Dune as the source of life and health in its being the only source of melange.
* Yueh knows how much Leto loves Jessica, though she herself seems to doubt it.
* Yueh sees himself as being trapped in the old Atreides/Harkonnen fued.
* Yueh thinks that Jessica could make Leto do anything.
* Jessica only wants the Duke to do things of his own will, even if his choices hurt her.
* Jessica sees the Duke as two men; her tender lover and a cold & selfish man shaped by his father.
* Yueh does not want to turn on the Atreides.
* Jessica sees how troubled and tormented Yueh is, but decides to trust him rather than question him.
If she had decided otherwise, it would have been a very different story! ******************************************************
Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell <i></i>
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