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[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"When he saw her eyes, he saw conscious design."

(Duncan re: Murbella - Honored Matre)

[kneeknockers]

DUNE Tarot XIX. The Sun Sheeana Brugh [Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse Dune] "Can’t you see what she intends? The Missionaria scheme! Oh, more than that. It’s the next phase: Muad’Dib to Tyrant to Honored Matres to us to Sheeana . . . to what? Can’t you see it? The thing is right here at the lip of your thoughts. Accept it as you would swallow a bitter drink. Murbella shuddered. See it? The bitter medicine of a Sheeana future? We once thought all medicines had to be bitter or they were not effective. No healing power in the sweet. Must it happen, Dar? Some will choke on that medicine. But the survivors may create interesting patterns." This card is part of the DUNE Tarot project, an independent art project centering on the world of Frank Herbert's Dune novels 🌌 To watch art being created in-process, please check out http://twitch.tv/kneeknockers for days and times of streams. 🌌 To order prints or pre-order the DUNE Tarot deck, please visit http://kneeknockers.net under "Store" 🌌 To keep up to date on project details, join our discord! Twitch subscribers get access to sub-only rooms that go into greater detail concerning DUNE Tarot, Paradise Lost, & more! https://discord.com/invite/R2dQUKbGZ5 🌌 if you like what I do and would like to support me, please consider donating to my ko-fi! It's a great way to show support even if prints are too expensive♡ http://ko-fi.com/kneeknockers #dune #hereticsofdune #dunechronicles #chapterhousedune #frankherbert  #sheeana #sheeanabrugh #wormdance #sandworm #arrakis  #tarot  #tarotcards  #watercolor  #gouache #esotericism  #scifiartwork #instaart #artistoninstagram  #instaartist  #artistsofinstagram #foolsjourney #thesun  #twitchcreative  #majorarcana #dunetarot #fanart (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNLZN-jDJ-j/?igshid=1b6uezn0fx8al

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"How easy it was to produce scapegoats, and how readily they were accepted. This was especially true when the alternative was to find yourself either guilty or stupid or both."

(Teg re: turning Burzmali into a scapegoat)

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"'I know I'm not pretty,' the man rasped. 'I was ruined in the Aliejuri explosion.' Teg had no idea what the Aliejuri explosion might have been, but it was obviously presumed he knew. Ruined, however, was an interesting accusation against fate."

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"This is the awe inspiring universe of magic. There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordains screens occur on which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here: the Screen of the Magi. Imagination. Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos."

-- The Atreides Manifesto, Bene Gesserit archives

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?"

-- A Guide to Trial and Error in Government, Bene Gesserit archives

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"Only that morning Lucilla had posed naked before her mirror, forming the attitudes and motions of face and body that she knew she would use to obey Tarazza's orders. In artificial repose, Lucilla had seen her face appear like that of a prehistoric love goddess. Opulent with flesh and a promise of softness into which an aroused male might hurl himself."

[1001pagesofsummerreading]

"Some people never observe anything; life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence. And they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity."

(Tarazza)