#gammu

If the Dune movies keep the same aesthetic after Villeneuve is done with them (post-messiah) I wonder how they’ll handle de-Harkonnen-fied Geidi Prime.

Lucilla recognized the device. Users called it a hypnobong and it was outlawed on all of the more civilized worlds.

The Mentat had not permitted himself to see it. Logic could move just as blindly as any other faculty.

From the most ancient times, the knowledgeable had preferred to surround themselves with fine woods rather than with mass-produced artificial materials known then as polastine, polaz, and pormbat latterly: tine, laz, and bat.) As far back as the Old Empire there had been a pejorative label for the small rich and Families Minor arising from the knowledge of a rare wood's value. "He's a three P-O," they said, meaning that such a person surrounded himself with cheap copies made from declasse substances. Even when the supremely rich were forced to employ one of the distressful three P-Os, they disguised it where possible behind O-P (the only P) pilingitam.