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The definitive companion to Frank Herbert's Dune chronicles features articles by both scholars and fans that cover diverse facets of the history, culture, religion, science, and people of Arrakis.

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Makes me wish I knew what happened. Such flytings were plentiful and, for the most part, mere showmanship. If al-Harba did not write the plays bearing his name, who did? Like the two later contenders, he was of noble birth, furnishing his supporters with their first argument.

Writ- ing openly for the theater, they claim, was beneath the dignity of a nobleman and statesman, and knowledge of his authorship would have lowered his prestige at Court. This point fumishes a good example of the selective thinking so often shown in the controversy. Duke Mintor, the father of Duke Leto Atreides, performed publicly many times in the bullring and, in fact, died there; Feyd- Rautha Harkonnen killed over a hundred slaves in public gladiatorial contests, many of them while he was na-Baron, and often with members of the Royal House in attendance.

Which is vastly different in space and time From Derubians and the people of Al Minhar. We do not-come as far to make our cruel observations. The Plowing Cipher is no cipher at all; with enough lines, any name can be extracted. Which is vastly different in space and time From Denubians and the people of Al Minhar.

They state that. Since many of the plays were histories, their author needed the protection of secrecy. In their version, Fenring did not die in , but went underground. The best known example of that danger is, of course, the burning of the nine historians, but that event occurred over two thousand years later, in According to J. As Duub notes, the play Shaddam JV, with its famous deposition scene, was performed in Arrakeen on the morning of the rebellion to stir the populace to revolutionary fervor.

Duub describes the conversation: know that? LETO I. In , A. Essen- tially it follows them in demeaning al-Harba, coming down especially heavily on the pur- ported intimate political knowledge of the plays, and claiming that only one who had, so to speak, firsthand knowledge of the events portrayed could have been the author.

Kiilwan returns to the play Carthage, not for cryptograms, but rather for lines that she says are meaningful only if the writer was Leto II. Twice in the same scene he weeps over the burden of his. Which eon is this? The second scene that she quotes from, In, ii, contains these lines: Make.

In one Rakis Ref. Leto had asked Malky if he knew the words Taquiyya ot ketman. What capital the Letoites could have made of this!

Their candidate states that he wrote histories not plays, to be sure, but the next best thing under a pseudonym, and in one of the Harban plays we find a quotation that closely parallels a passage in Leto's Journats. However, the support provided by the quota- tion is illusory. And it was beyond the powers even of Leto Il-to ghost-write a book a thousand years before he was born. What power could conceivably have harmed Leto that he might wish to have kept his authorship of some plays unknown?

Yet in no instance is it recorded that they were angry because they had discovered that he had covertly written stage dramas. This theo- ry is simply silly. But there is another solution, one that has no more. We know that as the emperor continued his rule, he clutched the power to surprise ever more jealously to himself. It sometimes seems that his reign was dedicated to reducing humanity on ev- ery planet to a uniform grayness. We find in Kiilwan's book no evidence, compel- ing or otherwise, for believing that Leto Il was Harq al-Harba, but it has aroused suspi- cions about the identity of A.

In sum, the al-Harba Question is a ques- tion only in the minds of these clouded by snobbery, delusion, hero-worship, and igno- tance of Atreidean literary history. No profes- sional Harban scholar has ever lent it credence, and for good reason: there is more evidence that Harq al-Harba wrote the plays attributed to him than for the works and existence of Virgil, Rabelais, Milton, McCartney, Shum- wan, Astiki, Camwold, and a host of others put together.

The Rakis Hoard has done nothing to upset the conclusion that the Harban plays were the fruits of the genius of Harq al-Harba. Marik, Moruments of Atreidean Drama, 5 v. Grumman: Hastley Univ. Press ; Pander Ovlson, St. Cat, ; Bsh. Gamont and all the planets of Niushe. In the legend the Ampoliros takes on grander proportions, becoming a class nine, power amplitude 35, long-range explorer with the military capabili- ty of a support fighter.

About two-thirds of the way to their destination they came upon an abandoned cargo ship adrift in space. Upon retuming from examin- ing the empty ship they resumed their journey. In a word, the crew went mad. In a matter of three weeks they. They radioed this information to all receivers us- ing the widest spectrum of emergency bands. The crew told of their decision to strap themselves to their guns and fly until they ran out of stores, searching for the invisible aliens, hoping to attack and destroy at least some of them before starvation or the aliens killed them.

The Ampoliros was never found. It is said to be still searching the stars, ever ready to attack; the time-dilation effect of near-light speed travel making the crew al- thost immortal.

The legend was often used to explain to children how allowing themselves to be car- tied away by imaginary fears could lead to real difficulties.

It was also used to suggest to adults that too much idle time was destruc- tive to a well-tuned army or skilled work force. The legend was at times embellished by such changes as having some of the crew die of fever or abandon ship alone in deep space. Another version says they went mad not from microspore infestation but from the colossal, crushing loneliness of deep space.

Often the story speaks of the crew engaging in attacks on other friendly vessels, planets, asteroids, and even imagi- nary targets such as scanner blips and psy- cho-projections. The legend is first recorded as being part of the: folk culture of Bela Tegeuse; from there it was carried to.

Of course, in the post- Guild era it spread to scores of other plane- tary systems. But its popularity. A philosophical concept with the basic premise that in order to know a thing well, one must know its limits. In other words, only when an: object is pushed beyond its: limits will its tre nature be seen. It is not difficult to understand why such societies would.

However, such societies rarely viewed Antal as merely a practical way of reducing the dangers of failure. For the Fremen, Antal became. The hostile nature of the environ- i was supersititiously personified by Shai-.

Hulud, the indestructible giant sandworm.