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Layers of fear 2 best ending6/1/2023 ![]() In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.from Manual of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan.Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place. Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan and lived his first fifteen years there. And take the most special care that you locate Muad'Dib in his place: the planet Arrakis. 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. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here." Book 1: Dune Muad'Dib could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. ![]() Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Fear is the little- death that brings total obliteration. Frank Herbert novels Dune (1965) A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
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