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Читать полностью…“Stilgar,” Paul said, “you urgently need a sense of balance which can come only from an understanding of long-term effects. What little information we have about the old times, the pittance of data which the Butlerians left us, Korba has brought it for you. Start with the Genghis Khan.”
“Ghengis . . . Khan? Was he of the Sardaukar, m’Lord?”
“Oh, long before that. He killed . . . perhaps four million.”
“He must’ve had formidable weaponry to kill that many, Sire. Lasbeams, perhaps, or . . .”
“He didn’t kill them himself, Stil. He killed the way I kill, by sending out his legions. There’s another emperor I want you to note in passing—a Hitler. He killed more than six million. Pretty good for those days.”
“Killed . . . by his legions?” Stilgar asked.
“Yes.”
“Not very impressive statistics, m’Lord.”
I liked second Dune book better tbh
didn't really recalled it and read half of it in the one go
it's less about "not-muslims larp with worms" and more about "can we fucking kill man-made god? or should we even try?"
it's good
ARE WE BACK??????????????? MOZILLA WORKING ON AN ACTUAL IMPROVEMENT TO FIREFOX?????????????????
Читать полностью…Another time, much later, we talked about Lermontov.Читать полностью…
- They say he was a terrible bore, - said Alexei Alexeevich.
I was already fifteen years old, and I was terribly amazed to hear about Lermontov as someone personally familiar to the speaker.
- How do you know?
- I met Martynov in Paris. We, then young, surrounded him, began to tease and accuse him: "You killed the sun of Russian poetry! Don't you have any shame?" - “Gentlemen,” he said, "if you knew what kind of a man he was! He was insufferable. If I had missed then in a duel, I would have killed him afterward. When he appeared in society, his only purpose was to spoil everyone's spirits. Everybody was dancing and having fun, and he would sit down in a corner somewhere and start laughing at somebody, sending from his corner notes with vile epigrams. A scandal arose, someone began to weep, everyone's mood was spoiled. That's when Lermontov felt all right.
there was that saudi prince which really into anime
that makes me think kinda
this new Dune game should make every Arrakis character TURBOWEEB pumped on drugs and every Harkonnen scream "GOD I HATE ANIME"
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For my fellow Steely Dan lovers in the channel; this song was originally supposed to be on Gaucho, but the demo was lost and thus, so was the song. However, thanks to the internet it's been remade. And it's awesome.
"M’Lord,” Stilgar growled, “you’ve had men executed for less!”
“Men, yes,” Paul agreed. “But this is a Guild Ambassador.”
“He accuses you of an unholy fraud!” Stilgar said.
“His thinking interests me, Stil,” Paul said. “Contain your anger and remain alert.”
“As Muad’Dib commands.”
“Tell me, Steersman,” Paul said, “how could we maintain this hypothetical fraud over such enormous distances of space and time without the means to watch every missionary, to examine every nuance in every Qizarate priory and temple?”
“What is time to you?” Edric asked.
Stilgar frowned in obvious puzzlement. And he thought: Muad’Dib has often said he sees past the veils of time. What is the Guildsman really saying?
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Читать полностью…the idea of """alien""" life being just culturally different than biologically and specie different still more supreme than "ahhh those aliens are so different, they are just hooomans but BLUE dude it's entirely different"
Читать полностью…actually I went to re-read Dune
and it's kind of awkward to know some stuff like that 60s book "Sabble of Paradise"(some shit about Caucasian war) from where Herbert took some new words and how it supposed to be quran without degeneracy with some actual story
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