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Manifisto

Finger Prince posted:

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# ? Jun 10, 2019 21:34

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# ? May 21, 2024 18:51

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Loved the first. Quit the second about 50 pages in.

# ? Jun 10, 2019 22:11

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# ? Jun 10, 2019 23:01

cda: by Hand Knit

cda posted:

it turns out there is, at the end of the book, so that when youve struggled for 400 pages with how to pronounce ezuazuacatlim, you can find out you were doing it right all along

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# ? Jun 11, 2019 04:33

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# ? Jun 11, 2019 06:53

curse: heck

i keep meaning to
as one of my favorite memes is a dune meme
but then i think to myself
that is too long

# ? Jun 11, 2019 09:54

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dune is a lot like lotr in a lot of ways. it is basically what most modern sci-fi draws on, it's written by some old dead dude, and it is long winded. much like how tolkien rambles on about rolling hills, herbert has a lot of ecological stuff going on for pages.

but when you've read it, stuff like star wars becomes pretty weird, because you already know about the sand worms and spice and all that noise

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# ? Jun 15, 2019 22:50

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while herbert was writing the fremen from a very colonialist perpective, they still end up as the dominant culture of the galaxy (with help from whiteboy mcprivilegeface), and in star wars the tusken are despicted as animal-like predators

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# ? Jun 15, 2019 22:54

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in conclusion, george lucas is a hack, and we should still resent him

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# ? Jun 15, 2019 22:56

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herbert also draws on some mediaeval islamic tropes about decadent sedentary imperial powers being ousted by militant desert nomads, who in turn becomes the new decadent power holders awaiting the next wave of desert invasions

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# ? Jun 15, 2019 23:05

canyoneer: I only have canyoneyes for you

i don't read a lot of books on account of the dyslexia but i do think you should wear clothes while reading if you're outside or in front of a window

# ? Jun 16, 2019 07:12

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# ? Jun 16, 2019 07:15

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# ? Jun 16, 2019 11:38

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# ? Jun 16, 2019 12:08

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# ? Jun 16, 2019 16:09

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# ? Jun 16, 2019 19:34

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# ? Jun 16, 2019 20:10

jeffery

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# ? Jun 16, 2019 20:11

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# ? Jun 16, 2019 21:28

TorsvikVonClemson

Dag yo, we talkin bout DUNE? I love some Dune me. The first one is some of the sickest stuff. Children of Dune made me have a freakout tho. Not touchin God Emperor Dune tho. I'll just make some of the DOS Dune RTS plot in to some digestible head canon.

abide.

# ? Jun 17, 2019 07:32

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# ? Jun 18, 2019 17:47

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iron maiden once wrote a pretty uninspired song about dune, which frank herbert specifically denied the right to name after the book (they ended up calling it "to tame a land")

this is fair, since they actually wrote this:

body water is your life
and without it you would die
in the desert the planet dune
without a stillsuit you would fry
on the sands so hot and dry

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# ? Jun 18, 2019 18:48

google THIS

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# ? Jun 18, 2019 19:08

Papa Was A Video Toaster

google THIS posted:

In a world called Arrakis
It is a land that's rich in spice
The sand riders and the "mice"
That they call the "Muad'Dib"
He is the Kwizatz Haderach
He is born of Caladan
And will take the Gom Jabbar

# ? Jun 18, 2019 19:55

Manifisto

body water is your life
and without it you would die
in the desert the planet dune
without a stillsuit you would fry
on the sands so hot and dry and dusty with dust
he's not even your girlfriend now
no one's ever really liked you no one likes you
when you see me come from that city of sand
and the sand that's the city of no returns
you look at me and you see my hands and legs, I don't even remember
I'm sitting in the empty room inside there
I saw me, all the pain and loneliness
And I don't even see your voice in my head
and you're never in my arms
you're right just so far away from the pain that's already so real
when the rain drops are flying in and falling
just the sound
of the wind that's pulling the rain out, from the rain I guess it means I'm not alone
so like that when you cry with me
there's water and just as much as there is, there's too much
it's not like it doesn't hurt, it gets worse when you see me
I'm so tired, so tired, but I will never be too late
I love you so much there's nothing I can cry about
there's nothing like the pain I feel inside my head (You're not lonely,

# ? Jun 18, 2019 19:58

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TVsVeryOwn posted:

C-

Did you read the book, Mr. Maiden, or just the Cliff Notes? Please see me after class.

# ? Jun 18, 2019 21:33

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: I put my thumb up my bum and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.

It's gonna take a sand worm to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred fremen or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Arrakeen
Gonna take some spice and see the things we haven't had yet (ooh, ooh)

# ? Jun 19, 2019 01:25

Slush Garbo: FALSE SLACK
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

# ? Jun 19, 2019 02:44

google THIS

GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:

# ? Jun 19, 2019 04:46

google THIS

Rollin through the sietch, smokin melange, sippin on my own recycled sweat
Laid back (with my mind on my Muad'dib and my Muad'dib on my mind)

# ? Jun 19, 2019 04:54

Doctor Dogballs: driving the fuck truck from hand land to pound town without stopping at suction station

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# ? Jun 22, 2019 23:05