- SimonChris
- Apr 24, 2008
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The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
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Grimey Drawer
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A work that features a bad thing but doesn't say explicitly HEY THIS THING IS BAD OK is not pro the bad thing
Also, the book does, in fact, go out of its way to say that the Jihad is bad and that Paul is losing control of his own "Great Man" legend:
Dune posted:
There was no past occupying the future in his mind …
except … except … he could still sense the green and black Atreides banner
waving … somewhere ahead … still see the jihad’s bloody swords and fanatic
legions.
It will not be, he told himself. I cannot let it be.
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Paul sat silently in the darkness, a single stark thought dominating his
awareness: My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is
bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.
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He felt that this Fremen world was fishing for him, trying to snare him in its
ways. And he knew what lay in that snare—the wild jihad, the religious war he
felt he should avoid at any cost.
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It had been a strange day with these two standing guard over him because he
asked it, keeping away the curious, allowing him the time to nurse his thoughts
and prescient memories, to plan a way to prevent the jihad.
Now, standing beside his mother on the cavern ledge and looking out at the
throng, he wondered if any plan could prevent the wild outpouring of fanatic
legions.
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The more he resisted his terrible purpose and fought against the coming of
the jihad, the greater the turmoil that wove through his prescience. His entire
future was becoming like a river hurtling toward a chasm—the violent nexus
beyond which all was fog and clouds.
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Half pridefully, Paul thought: I cannot do the simplest thing without its becoming a legend. They
will mark how I parted from Chani, how I greet Stilgar—every move I make this
day. Live or die, it is a legend. I must not die. Then it will be only legend and
nothing to stop the jihad.
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In that instant, Paul saw how Stilgar had been transformed from the Fremen
naib to a creature of the Lisan al-Gaib, a receptacle for awe and obedience. It
was a lessening of the man, and Paul felt the ghost-wind of the jihad in it.
I have seen a friend become a worshiper, he thought.
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Muad’Dib from whom all blessings flow,he thought, and it was the bitterest
thought of his life. They sense that I must take the throne, he thought. But they
cannot know I do it to prevent the jihad.
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He had thought to oppose the jihad within himself, but the jihad would be.
His legions would rage out from Arrakis even without him. They needed only
the legend he already had become. He had shown them the way, given them
mastery even over the Guild which must have the spice to exist.
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This is the climax, Paul thought. From here, the future will open, the clouds
part onto a kind of glory. And if I die here, they’ll say I sacrificed myself that my
spirit might lead them. And if I live, they’ll say nothing can oppose Muad’Dib.
This is all from the first book.
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