The Machine Crusade - Entry #5

Some miracles are only nightmares in disguise.

- SERENA BUTLER, Echoes of the Jihad

This was the chapter starter on p. 474 of The Machine Crusade.  The chapter was about a visit that Serena made to Tlulax wtih Rajid Suk and Xavier Harkonnen to inspect the "much-vaunted organ farms" (The Machine Crusade, p. 474).

Chills ... this quote gives me chills.  Knowing what humans can justify to do to each other is a nightmare.  We have plenty of evidence of this in the 20th century alone, along with evidence that many are willing to turn a blind eye.  The foreboding is clear here.

But moving on ... I am getting close to the end of the book and came across this quote:

"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over.  Without fear, I die but once." (The Machine Crusade, p. 621)

This is the first time that we hear this famous chant (or something close enough to it) in the DUNE story as told from the beginning.  Without looking it up, who spoke these lines in The Machine Crusade and what was the situation?  And remember, I am a teacher so there are no "prizes" for getting an answer right that is posed in a classroom discussion.  The satisfaction of getting the right answer is the only prize you need!