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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Oct 2020

      So I re-read Dune thinking I could write something about the new adaptation, which now won't be out for another year. Still worth it though! Dune is good, even more impressive than I remember it. At times clunky but with with a cumulative visionary grandeur.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Oct 2020

      I might go back and re-read the Dune sequels, which I don't have fond memories of. But I read those as a teenager when they were first coming out and some people I trust say they have some merits.

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    3. Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social.‏ @RavenOnthill 21 Oct 2020
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      I recently reread it, yes, because of the movie and was both amazed and horrified. I'm working on a critical piece on it, that may never see the light of day, but here's a few notes. Dune is not just one story, but a mash-up of at least three: →

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    4. Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social.‏ @RavenOnthill 21 Oct 2020
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      (1) The basic plot is a straightforward royal succession story: prince has throne stolen, prince falls in with disreputable but honest subjects, undertakes spiritual quest, prince regains throne. (2) A Nietzschean superman and Jungian race-consciousness story. (3) An

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    5. Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social.‏ @RavenOnthill 21 Oct 2020
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      ecological story. …good old-fashioned Campbellian superman magic – inverted; it is instead superwoman magic… The languages and cultures of Dune are the result of centuries of syncretism. Presages the Gaia hypothesis; the atmosphere of Arrakis is not in chemical →

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    6. Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social.‏ @RavenOnthill 21 Oct 2020
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      equilibrium, showing that there is an active ecology. The idea of the race is a conscious entity and vast war of conquest as a way to mix genes regardless of what any member of the race wanted. And so, he stands eugenics on its head. There is a race mind. It’s real. →

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    7. Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social.‏ @RavenOnthill 21 Oct 2020
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      But it is monstrous and cruel. And jihad is its tool. Overall, the books are a mash-up of Campbellian SF, ecological theories, and syncretic religion. Not surprisingly, the books were serialized in Analog. I suspect Campbell's editorial hand did not do Herbert any favors.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Oct 2020
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      I think that's true but there are many ways the book (and later sequels) invert Campbell.

      1:37 PM - 21 Oct 2020
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        1. Raven Onthill mstdn @ravenonthill@mastodon.social.‏ @RavenOnthill 21 Oct 2020
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          Yes. Still, that whole Nietzschean /Jungian thing is there, and it's central. I think also that many readers miss the fact that Paul Atriedes is a *tragic* hero. He fails in so many, many ways.

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