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Mister Speaker posted:What's the classic novel that House of Leaves sort of apes, in the sense that it's full of unreliable narration and footnotes that go on and scribbling in the margins? Someone recommended it to me when I described HoL to them and I can't for the life of me remember what it was. Yeah well let's see the thread about that get to 759 pages (i did like it but it's like hearing someone loves Appetite For Destruction and a music major is like psssshhhhh have you ever tried fusion jazz? Now that's real music.)
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i don't much like house of leaves, but pale fire is wicked good
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^ loving lmaoooSir Mat of Dickie posted:Pale Fire is probably the one. I think this was it, thanks!
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Soul Dentist posted:Book of the New Sun is incomprehensible? I mean, this is sff. There’s a substantial percentage of the reader base who are literal children and/or think anything more ambitious than a licensed Warhammer 40K book is Finnegans Wake. BOTNS is definitely a trickier read than say, Dune. Which itself went over a lot of people’s heads
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Anyone got any good Dune pun trivia / pub quiz team names? Quizats Haderach is just sitting there, obviously, but I'm sure there's something better?
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Bene Guessingit
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The Thinking Machines my Other Memory is wikipedia
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!Klams posted:The Cool Wahads
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kiimo posted:House Hardquestion SixFigureSandwich posted:The Thinking Machines These are cool, I especially like The Thinking Machines! Tree Bucket posted:Bene Guessingit This is loving amazing! I'll probably steal this.  (I'm secretly very touched that you remembered this from forever ago)
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Baron Porkface posted:In the 1984 movie how did the fremen get weirding modules when they were destroyed in the battle? Yueh left them the schematics! So they built them out of turds and spit
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did anyone ever do an edit where the fremen using the weirding modules in lynch dune are replaced by bart saying zzzzap from the john waters episode
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Queering modules?
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Tree Bucket posted:Queering modules? only two types of dudes wear stillsuits - fremen and big fat party animals, and muad'dib don't look like a big fat party animal
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Tree Bucket posted:Queering modules? His name is a FABULOUS word
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Y'know, I'd give the failson a bit of slack if he made Dune gayer.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Y'know, I'd give the failson a bit of slack if he made Dune gayer.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:For that, the non-failson would have to still be alive - and Brian would have to have remained in contact with Bruce. Oooooh, I didn't know there was another son. ...still stands though.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Oooooh, I didn't know there was another son. As every queer person will tell you, this means that Frank was utterly obnoxious to his own son about him being gay - which doesn't really speak well of Frank, even if you somehow manage to ignore his absolutely bonkers view that's presented in GEoD. The fact that Brian can put it like that, in print, without giving any serious thought to why, indicates that he probably wasn't very supportive or respectful of his brother either.
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“You must have wondered,” continued Stilgar, “how the Sietches stay in communication?” Jessica acknowledged the question and its unspoken assumptions with a half-nod. “Of course,” she said. Stilgar gave a faint smile and waved at the far end of the cavern. “You are about to see a thing that few among even our own people have seen. It allows us to remain in contact with one another across the breadth of Arrakis itself. It is called the Zum Meeting.” Jessica felt her pulse quicken- stilled it. A rectangle of light sprang into being in the cavern, throwing silver-edged shadows across Stilgar’s face. Is this it? thought Jessica. Could this oblong of light be the secret means by which sietch speaks with sietch? “Commence the Zum Meeting,” commanded Stilgar. And then- Madness! Jessica recoiled. The light flared, fractured- a mosaic of lights. Distorted fragments of faces seen from strange angles. A nose, an eye, mouths- moving, slipping. A babble of sounds and voices; breathing and the oceanlike roar of fabric shifting, amplified hugely. Jessica writhed before the Zum, her mind a child’s toy boat tossed upon huge cold waves of light and noise. “Calm yourself,” came the voice of Stilgar. “While you watch, you also are watched.” The axiomatic truth of this statement brought Jessica back to a state of full awareness. She shook her head. Slowed her breathing. Forced relaxants down nerve pathways ragged with panic hormones. Her training exerted itself; she shed the animal desire for comprehension and simply let her senses absorb. Hadn’t they taught her that, all those years ago? Any perceptual framework could be a scaffold to build around- or a cage to escape. Her haste to understand was what stood in the way of understanding. As her body calmed, Jessica allowed herself to perceive the Zum. A rectangle made of smaller rectangular images, generally of faces, though a few showed blank swathes of colour. The largest rectangle by far held the visage of a particularly old and distinguished-looking Fremen male. As Jessica beheld the face, she felt the animal panic of the Zum give way to a deeper, unfolding terror- a black-edged flower of dread blooming within her mind. “No,” she whispered, as understanding ratcheted outwards in merciless concatenating waves of cognition. For she had looked at the older man in the Zum meeting confidently expecting to analyse voice, glance, movement- and had found her skills instantly thwarted. She had stepped out on to a foot that was suddenly no longer there, perhaps had never been there. The man’s visage had been passed through some kind of filter that alternately froze and unfroze the recording- stuttering, rhythmless. The implications were inescapable. Somehow, the Fremen had gained knowledge of the Bene Gesserit's most advanced nerve-reading techniques- and developed this Zum meeting whereby they could be countered. The Zum was a weapon in a war against understanding. The older man spoke on, but his voice couldn’t be heard, to the evident discomfort of the other younger Zum participants. He speaks without speaking, thought Jessica. Great Mother! He is a parable from the old tales made flesh! And her mind raced to her son, Paul, and to the emrbyonic foetal baby zygote within her uterine wombplace. As the Zum meeting continued, and others spoke, Jessica realised with immense and shameful relief that the abilities granted her by the sisterhood were still of some use: The Zum participant Grobdar, for instance, was either in the profound meditative trance of a fourth-level bistar, or his camera had frozen. Somarra’s sound recording apparatus had been activated, even though it was not her turn to speak, amplifying the sound of her breathing hugely and causing ripples of alarm through the other Fremen. Subtle twitches of the eye and tendons told Jessica that Kevn had his attention on another screen none of them could see; and Ohnlifanz, the youngest and most desirable of the Fremen females present, possessed a surprisingly high-quality camera and lighting rig for some reason.
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Tree Bucket posted:Zum Meeting Superb.
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sebmojo posted:That's
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I'm queer and have had a strained relationship with my dad, but it had more to do with us having totally different outlooks on things, some depression and me being a smart rear end as a child. It could be coincidence. I do find it hard to square with Duncan getting told off by Leto II for being weird about the Fish Speakers having sex. Then again if an old horny guy is going to have a double standard for gay stuff it's gonna be for some girl on girl. so in conclusion Frank Herbert is a land of contrasts
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"May your wife chirp and chatter."
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Shoehead posted:He gives his water to the tribe He’s not a “no nut naib”
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You gotta drown the baby worm in order to release the water of life.... iykwim
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Uterine Wombplace is a (worm)god tier username, gatdang
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