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“She sought to divert him, lowered her hands and said: ‘We’ll find a place among the Fremen?’ ‘The Fremen have a saying they credit to Shai-hulud, Old Father Eternity,’ he said. ‘They say: “Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.”’ And he thought: Yes, mother mine – among the Fremen. You’ll acquire the blue eyes and a callus beside your lovely nose from the filter tube to your stillsuit … and you’ll bear my sister: St Alia of the Knife.”
Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica in Dune (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve
Cover art by Matt Griffin for new hardcover Deluxe editions of ‘Dune Messiah’ and 'Children Of Dune’, books 2 and 3 in the 'Dune’ series written by Frank Herbert, as first revealed by io9.
The new Deluxe hardcover editions will be published April 4 2023 by Ace Books.
Still having Chani feelings, man. Because I think it is actually not that common to see a character (but especially a female character) whose main commitment in life is to a political struggle, and to have that be taken seriously by the narrative. Not painted as naive idealism or a trendy lifestyle choice or something the character eventually leaves behind for "real" commitments like marriage, career or children.
We don't see really anything of Chani's home life in the sietch, but it seems reasonable to infer that the fedaykin are what she's built her life around. The very first thing we learn about her, before we even know her name, is that she's a fighter. This is a core part of her identity.
She falls in love with Paul when he's willing to risk his life beside her as an equal, for a cause that she can't escape but he could walk away from if he chose. The question she asks him is not Do you love me? but Will you always be with me? Will you always be beside me in the struggle, fighting for the same things I am?
And as soon as the answer to that question is no, they're over. There is absolutely no possibility of love overriding that political betrayal, because her love for him is inextricable from coming to trust that he is committed to their liberation and not simply trying to use them. He said over and over again that he didn't want power, and as soon as he reaches out to claim it there is no way they can be together. The worst betrayal isn't watching him choose another woman, it's watching him declare himself emperor and send her own people off to slaughter others when he said he was fighting for their freedom.
So she leaves him, and we're never supposed to see it as anything but justified. There is simply no way she will turn her back on the most important thing in her life for him.
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a hero.” —Dune, Frank Herbert
been thinking about that scene in dune 2021 where rabban has his little temper tantrum, causing the two maids in the room to flinch in fear… cut to piter (david dastmalchian) looking completely unfazed, bored even, by rabban’s rage. i thought it was a really cool way of establishing character through contrast, so here’s more of the same. rabban the beast, and beautiful, perfect, unflinching piter…
“Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.”
— Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
LJN’s toy line, made to accompany the 1984 movie, Dune. At the time, every movie was a potential merchandise hit after Star Wars.
Emmi Rabban and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, mother and son
Dune: House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson | "Mother" by Tori Amos | Frederick Christiansen | Homeric Hymn to Demeter | A Viking Mother by Frank Stick (1929) | A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin | The Young King of the Black Isles by Maxfield Parrish (1906) | Dune by Frank Herbert
alia atreides & marie fenring.
"in the blood" by john mayer / portrait of elisabetta gonzaga by raffaello sanzio / adeleide by hiroshi furuyoshi / fatima aamer bilal / fair rosamund and eleanor by frank cadogan cowper
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![[They] Think To Trick Me By Making Me Distrust Your Mother. They Don’t Know That I’d Sooner Distrust](https://64.media.tumblr.com/01716807bab0caf41f48df22f805ed7d/4dff4024614ed076-3c/s500x750/b0eaf4f9a2616d3202bfd0fdf96a0ec46a5bc4a1.gif)
[They] think to trick me by making me distrust your mother. They don’t know that I’d sooner distrust myself.
Lady Jessica & Duke Leto Dune, Frank Herbert
“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.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune
“They said you were dead,” Gurney repeated.
“And it seemed the best protection to let them think so,” Paul said.
Gurney realized that was all the apology he’d ever get for having been abandoned to his own resources, left to believe his young Duke … his friend, was dead. He wondered then if there were anything left here of the boy he had known and trained in the Ways of fighting men.
Paul took a step closer to Gurney, found that he had tears in his eyes. “Gurney ….”
It seemed to happen of itself, and they were embracing, pounding each other on the back, feeling the reassurance of solid flesh.
“You young pup! You young pup!” Gurney kept saying.
And Paul: “Gurney, man! Gurney, man!”