This planet beneath him which he had commanded be remade from desert into a water-rich paradise, it was alive.
He squeezed her hand, released it, returned to the table where he remained standing. And the frightening thing was that they appeared to go away satisfied. This was a link between their universe and the next. They called Arrakis the place of the unknown where all mysteries were explained. But they must know the universe contained no Eden-source, no Tupile for the soul. What was it the pilgrims really sought? Paul wondered. Those eyes drank him, and she whispered: "Please, love, do not battle with your ruh-self." An outpouring of emotion swept upward from her hand, buoyed him. He looked down to see Chani peering up at him, concern in her eyes. It was in the genes which might labor for centuries to achieve this brief spasm.Ī hand crept into Paul's. He had out-fought and out-thought and out-predicted the universe of men, but a certainty filled him that this universe still eluded him. He had shaken the safe cosmos and replaced security with his Jihad. His prescient power had tampered with the image of the universe held by all mankind. He felt that some element of himself lay immersed in frosty hoar-darkness without end. Irulan stared at the papers in front of Stilgar, her mouth a tight line. As matters stand, though, I reject this proposal." I think if the Princess Consort were not bound by the commands of the Bene Gesserit, if she did not seek this out of desires for personal power, my reaction might be very different. "It's the human arguments which concern me. "I know the political arguments," Paul said. The pilgrimage ended here "Arrakis, the place of rebirth, the place to die." Driven by that deepest religious instinct, the people came, seeking their resurrection.
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