Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!loverso From: loverso@sunybcs.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Having Dune by Halving Dune Message-ID: <1041@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 02:17:00 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1041 Posted: Thu Jan 17 02:17:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:58:40 EST References:<237@calmasd.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: State University of New York @ Buffalo,NY Lines: 14 > Toss the spice harvester's destruction and rescue of the crew. > Cheryl Nemeth I thought one of the more subtle points (but very relevant) was that Paul's father cared more about the men inside the harvester rather than the harvester or the spice they had collected. In the end of the book (right after the big battle) Paul asks about how much destruction to the house there was, and somebody (Gurney, i think) remarks that his father would have cared more about the men lost. This would seem to be a big lead on into the Jihad that follows and to the billions killed by it, in _Dune Messiah_. -- John Robert LoVerso @ SUNY Buffalo (716-636-3004) LoVerso%Buffalo@CSNET-RELAY -or- ..!{watmath|rocksanne}!sunybcs!loverso