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Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
Copyright 1969
Excerpts from the Death Cell Interview with Bronso of IX
Q: What led you to take your particular approach to a
history of Muad'dib?
A: Why should I answer your questions?
Q: Because I will preserve your words.
A: Ahhh! The ultimate appeal to a historian!
Q: Will you cooperate then?
A: Why not? But you'll never understand what inspired my
Analysis of History. Never. You Priests have too much at
stake to . . .
Q: Try me.
A: Try you? Well, Again . . . why not? I was caught by the
shallowness of the common view of this planet which
arises from its popular name: Dune. Not Arrakis, notice,
but Dune. History is obsessed by Dune as desert, as
birthplace of the Fremen. Such history concentrates on the
customs which grew out of water scarcity and the fact that
Fremen led semi-nomadic lives in stillsuits which recovered
most of their body's moisture.
Q: Are these things not true, then?
A: They are surface truth. As well ignore what lies beneath
that surface as . . . as try to understand my birthplanet,
Ix, without exploring how we derived our name from the
fact that we are the ninth planet of our sun. No . . . no. It
is not enough to see Dune as a place of savage storms. It
is not enough to talk about the threat posed by the
gigantic sandworms.
Q: But such things are crucial to the Arrakeen character!
A: Crucial? Of course. But they produce a one-view planet
in the same way that Dune is a one-crop planet because it
is the sole and exclusive source of the spice, melange.
Q: Yes. Let us hear you expand on the sacred spice.
A: Sacred! As with all things sacred, it gives with one hand
and takes with the other. It extends life and allows the
adept to foresee his future, but it ties him to a cruel
addiction and marks his eyes as yours are marked: total
blue without any white. Your eyes, your organs of sight,
become one thing without contrast, a single view.
Q: Such heresy brought you to this cell!
A: I was brought to this cell by your Priests. As with all
priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.
Q: You are here because you dared to say that Paul
Atreides lost something essential to his humanity before he
could become Muad'dib.
A: Not to speak of his losing his father here in the
Harkonnen war. Nor the death of Duncan Idaho, who
sacrificed himself that Paul and the Lady Jessica could
escape.
Q: Your cynicism is duly noted.
A: Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than
heresy. But, you see, I'm not really a cynic. I'm just an
observer and commentator. I saw true nobility in Paul as
he fled into the desert with his pregnant mother. Of
course, she was a great asset as well as a burden.
Q: The flaw in your historians is that you'll never leave well
enough alone. You see true nobility in the Holy Muad'dib,
but you must append a cynical footnote. It's no wonder
that the Bene Gesserit also denounce you.
A: You Priests do well to make common cause with the
Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. They, too, survive by concealing
what they do. But they cannot conceal the fact that the
Lady Jessica was a Bene Gesserit-trained adept. You know
she trained her son in the sisterhood's ways. My crime was
to discuss this as a phenomenon, to expound upon their
mental arts and their genetic program. You don't want
attention called to the fact that Muad'dib was the
Sisterhood's hoped for captive messiah, that he was their
kwisatz haderach before he was your prophet.
Q: If I had any doubts about your death sentence, you
have dispelled them.
A: I can only die once.
Q: There are deaths and there are deaths.

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