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diff --git a/fortune-mod/.local/share/fortune/dune b/fortune-mod/.local/share/fortune/dune new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d44028b --- /dev/null +++ b/fortune-mod/.local/share/fortune/dune @@ -0,0 +1,413 @@ +A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are +correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. 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. And take the most +special care that you locate Muad'Dib in his place: the planet Arrakis. Do not +be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan and lived his first fifteen +years there. Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place. + + -- from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +To attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal +enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. +It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. + + -- from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must combine the +seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin +goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her +youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the +place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning +and resourcefulness." + + -- from "Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan +% +You have read that Muad'Dib had no playmates his own age on Caladan. The +dangers were too great. But Muad'Dib did have wonderful companion-teachers. +There was Gurney Halleck, the troubadour-warrior. You will sing some of +Gurney's songs, as you read along in this book. There was Thufir Hawat, the old +Mentat Master of Assassins, who struck fear even into the heart of the Padishah +Emperor. There were Duncan Idaho, the Swordmaster of the Ginaz; Dr. Wellington +Yueh, a name black in treachery but bright in knowledge; the Lady Jessica, who +guided her son in the Bene Gesserit Way, and -- of course -- the Duke Leto, +whose qualities as a father have long been overlooked. + + -- from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +YUEH (yu'e), Wellington (weling-tun), Stdrd 10,082-10,191; medical doctor of +the Suk School (grd Stdrd 10,112); md: Wanna Marcus, B.G. (Stdrd +10,092-10,186?); chiefly noted as betrayer of Duke Leto Atreides. (Cf: +Bibliography, Appendix VII [Imperial Conditioning] and Betrayal, The.) + + -- from "Dictionary of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +How do we approach the study of Muad'Dib's father? A man of surpassing warmth +and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open the +way to this Duke: his abiding love for his Bene Gesserit lady; the dreams he +held for his son; the devotion with which men served him. You see him there -- +a man snared by Destiny, a lonely figure with his light dimmed behind the glory +of his son. Still, one must ask: What is the son but an extension of the father? + + -- from "Muad'Dib, Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan +% +With the Lady Jessica and Arrakis, the Bene Gesserit system of sowing +implant-legends through the Missionaria Protectiva came to its full fruition. +The wisdom of seeding the known universe with a prophecy pattern for the +protection of B.G. personnel has long been appreciated, but never have we seen +a condition-ut-extremis with more ideal mating of person and preparation. The +prophetic legends had taken on Arrakis even to the extent of adopted labels +(including Reverend Mother, canto and respondu, and most of the Shari-a +panoplia propheticus). And it is generally accepted now that the Lady Jessica's +latent abilities were grossly underestimated. + + -- from "Analysis: The Arrakeen Crisis" by the Princess Irulan [Private +circulation: B.G. file number AR-81088587] +% +"Yueh! Yueh! Yueh!" goes the refrain. "A million deaths were not enough for +Yueh!" + + -- from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of +Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the +others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was +in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could +learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, +and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every +experience carries its lesson. + + -- from "The Humanity of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +What had the Lady Jessica to sustain her in her time of trial? Think you +carefully on this Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road +followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just +a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you +cannot see the mountain." + + -- from "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan +% +It is said that the Duke Leto blinded himself to the perils of Arrakis, that he +walked heedlessly into the pit. Would it not be more likely to suggest he had +lived so long in the presence of extreme danger he misjudged a change in its +intensity? Or is it possible he deliberately sacrificed himself that his son +might find a better life? All evidence indicates the Duke was a man not easily +hoodwinked. + + -- from "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan +% +Over the exit of the Arrakeen landing field, crudely carved as though with +a poor instrument, there was an inscription that Muad'Dib was to repeat many +times. He saw it that first night on Arrakis, having been brought to the ducal +command post to participate in his father's first full staff conference. +The words of the inscription were a plea to those leaving Arrakis, but they +fell with dark import on the eyes of a boy who had just escaped a close brush +with death. They said: "O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us +in your prayers." + + -- from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +On that first day when Muad'Dib rode through the streets of Arrakeen with his +family, some of the people along the way recalled the legends and the prophecy +and they ventured to shout: "Mahdi!" But their shout was more a question than a +statement, for as yet they could only hope he was the one foretold as the Lisan +al-Gaib, the Voice from the Outer World. Their attention was focused, too, on +the mother, because they had heard she was a Bene Gesserit and it was obvious +to them that she was like the other Lisan al-Gaib. + + -- from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the +one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh." + + -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +My father, the Padishah Emperor, took me by the hand one day and I sensed in +the ways my mother had taught me that he was disturbed. He led me down the Hall +of Portraits to the ego-likeness of the Duke Leto Atreides. I marked the strong +resemblance between them--my father and this man in the portrait--both with +thin, elegant faces and sharp features dominated by cold eyes. +"Princess-daughter," my father said, "I would that you'd been older when it +came time for this man to choose a woman." My father was 71 at the time and +looking no older than the man in the portrait, and I was but 14, yet I remember +deducing in that instant that my father secretly wished the Duke had been his +son, and disliked the political necessities that made them enemies. + + -- "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan +% +Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in +part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences +greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is +projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is +what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that +permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional +greatness will destroy a man. + + -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +"There is no escape--we pay for the violence of our ancestors. " + + -- from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% + Do you wrestle with dreams? + Do you contend with shadows? + Do you move in a kind of sleep? + Time has slipped away. + Your life is stolen. + You tarried with trifles, + Victim of your folly. + + -- Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, + from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times +and oppression to develop psychic muscles. + + -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's +incomplete and saying: "Now, it's complete because it's ended here." + + -- from "Collected Sayings of, Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +There is a legend that the instant the Duke Leto Atreides died a meteor +streaked across the skies above his ancestral palace on Caladan. + + -- the Princess Irulan: "Introduction to A Child's History of Muad'Dib" +% + O Seas of Caladan, + O people of Duke Leto-- + Citadel of Leto fallen, + Fallen forever . . . + + -- from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +When my father, the Padishah Emperor, heard of Duke Leto's death and the +manner of it, he went into such a rage as we had never before seen. He blamed +my mother and the compact forced on him to place a Bene Gesserit on the throne. +He blamed the Guild and the evil old Baron. He blamed everyone in sight, not +excepting even me, for he said I was a witch like all the others. And when I +sought to comfort him, saying it was done according to an older law of +self-preservation to which even the most ancient rulers gave allegiance, he +sneered at me and asked if I thought him a weakling. I saw then that he had +been aroused to this passion not by concern over the dead Duke but by what +that death implied for all royalty. As I look back on it, I think there may +have been some prescience in my father, too, for it is certain that his line +and Muad'Dib's shared common ancestry. + + -- "In My Father's House," by the Princess Irulan +% +My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the +basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. +This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be. + + -- from "Conversations with Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% + +Muad'Dib could indeed, see the Future, but you must understand the limits +of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. +If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot see beyond your valley. +Just so, Muad'Dib could not always choose to look across the mysterious +terrain. He tells us that a single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps +the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the +future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through +it, time becomes a narrow door." And always, he fought the temptation to +choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into +stagnation." + + -- from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan +% +What do you despise? By this are you truly known. + + -- from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence. + + -- from "A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +We came from Caladan--a paradise world for our form of fife. There existed no +need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind--we +could see the actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price men +have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost +our edge. + + -- from "Muad'Dib: Conversations" by the Princess Irulan +% +Family life of the Royal Creche is difficult for many people to understand, +but I shall try to give you a capsule view of it. My father had only one real +friend, I think. That was Count Hasimir Fenring, the genetic-eunuch and one of +the deadliest fighters in the Imperium. The Count, a dapper and ugly little +man, brought a new slave-concubine to my father one day and I was dispatched +by my mother to spy on the proceedings. All of us spied on my father as a matter +of self-protection. One of the slave-concubines permitted my father under the +Bene Gesserit-Guild agreement could not, of course, bear a Royal Successor, +but the intrigues were constant and oppressive in their similarity. We became +adept, my mother and sisters and I, at avoiding subtle instruments of death. +It may seem a dreadful thing to say, but I 'm not at all sure my father was +innocent in all these attempts. A Royal Family is not like other families. +Here was a new slave-concubine, then, red-haired like my father, willowy and +graceful. She had a dancer's muscles, and her training obviously had included +neuro-enticement. My father looked at her for a long time as she postured +unclothed before him. Finally he said: "She is too beautiful. We will save her +as a gift. " You have no idea how much consternation this restraint created in +the Royal Creche. Subtlety and self-control were, after all, the most deadly +threats to us all. + + -- "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan +% +This Fremen religious adaptation, then, is the source of what we now +recognize as "The Pillars of the Universe," whose Qizara Tafwid are among us +all with signs and proofs and prophecy. They bring us the Arrakeen mystical +fusion whose profound beauty is typified by the stirring music built on the +old forms, but stamped with the new awakening. Who has not heard and been +deeply moved by "The Old Man's Hymn"? + + I drove my feet through a desert + Whose mirage fluttered like a host. + Voracious for glory, greedy for danger, + I roamed the horizons of al-Kulab, + Watching time level mountains + In its search and its hunger for me. + And I saw the sparrows swiftly approach, + Bolder than the onrushing wolf. + They spread in the tree of my youth. + I heard the flock in my branches + And was caught on their beaks and claws! + + -- from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan +% +Prophecy and prescience--How can they be put to the test in the face of the +unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction of the "waveform" +(as Muad'Dib referred to his vision-image) and how much is the prophet shaping +the future to fit the prophecy? What of the harmonics inherent in the act of +prophecy? 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? + + -- "Private Reflections on Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called +"spannungsbogen"--which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing +and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. + + -- from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +My father, the Padishah Emperor, was 72 yet looked no more than 35 the year +he encompassed the death of Duke Leto and gave Arrakis back to the Harkonnens. +He seldom appeared in public wearing other than a Sardaukar uniform and +a Burseg's black helmet with the imperial lion in gold upon its crest. +The uniform was an open reminder of where his power lay. He was not always +that blatant, though. When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, +but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. +I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible +cage. You must remember that he was an emperor, father-head of a dynasty that +reached back into the dimmest history. But we denied him a legal son. +Was this not the most terrible defeat a ruler ever suffered? My mother obeyed +her Sister Superiors where the Lady Jessica disobeyed. Which of them was the +stronger? History already has answered. + + -- "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan +% +God created Arrakis to train the faithful. + + -- from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism +to shield us from the terrors of the future. + + -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +Muad'Dib tells us in "A Time of Reflection" that his first collisions with +Arrakeen necessities were the true beginnings of his education. He learned then +how to pole the sand for its weather, learned the language of the wind's +needles stinging his skin, learned how the nose can buzz with sand-itch and how +to gather his body's precious moisture around him to guard it and preserve it. +As his eyes assumed the blue of the Ibad, he learned the Chakobsa way. + + -- Stilgar's preface to "Muad'Dib, the Man" by the Princess Irulan +% +The hands move, the lips move -- +Ideas gush from his words, +And his eyes devour! +He is an island of Selfdom. + + -- description from "A Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +No woman, no man, no child ever was deeply intimate with my father. The closest +anyone ever came to casual camaraderie with the Padishah Emperor was the +relationship offered by Count Hasimir Fenring, a companion from childhood. The +measure of Count Fenring's friendship may be seen first in a positive thing: he +allayed the Landsraad's suspicions after the Arrakis Affair. It cost more than +a billion solaris in spice bribes, so my mother said, and there were other +gifts as well: slave women, royal honors, and tokens of rank. The second major +evidence of the Count's friendship was negative. He refused to kill a man even +though it was within his capabilities and my father commanded it. I will relate +this presently. + + -- "Count Fenring: A Profile" by the Princess Irulan +% +Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that +makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. + + -- from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, +elegance, and grace -- those qualities you find always in that which the true +artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand +trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the +pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our +society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is +possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that +the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things +move toward death. + + -- from "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +"Control the coinage and the courts -- let the rabble have the rest." Thus the +Padishah Emperor advises you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must +rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and +who are the ruled?" + + -- Muad'Dib's Secret Message to the Landsraad from "Arrakis Awakening" by the +Princess Irulan +% +You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This +power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the +orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community +inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete +opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing +themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic. + + -- from "Muad'Dib: The Religious Issues" by the Princess Irulan +% +When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully +conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an +individual. + + -- from "Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe" by Princess Irulan +% +How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is +telling him. + + -- "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan +% +And it came to pass in the third year of the Desert War that Paul-Muad'Dib lay +alone in the Cave of Birds beneath the kiswa hangings of an inner cell. And he +lay as one dead, caught up in the revelation of the Water of Life, his being +translated beyond the boundaries of time by the poison that gives life. Thus +was the prophecy made true that the Lisan al-Gaib might be both dead and alive. + + -- "Collected Legends of Arrakis" by the Princess Irulan +% +And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the +universe with the wheel poised to spin. + + -- from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan +% +And Muad'Dib stood before them, and he said: "Though we deem the captive dead, +yet does she live. For her seed is my seed and her voice is my voice. And she +sees unto the farthest reaches of possibility. Yea, unto the vale of the +unknowable does she see because of me." + + -- from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan +% |