Many pages of the book pass before another quote I needed to
include. Not that these aren’t
interesting pages, because they are!
Duncan’s training on Gammu and, equally as important, the discovery of
the girl who can command the worms of Dune, Sheeana.
These pages also include the first clues to “sexual
imprinting”. The Bene Gesserit Lucilla
arrives on Gammu to imprint Duncan so that he would be in their control. But Teg does not agree with this plan.
The Honored Matres, called whores by the Bene Gesserit
because they use sexual imprinting dangerous ways, are searching to capture the
Duncan Idaho ghola. Duncan, Teg, and Lucilla
escape capture on Gammu because Teg’s assistant commander had found an ancient
Harkonnen no-chamber during explorations in the forest during his childhood on
Gammu. I love when Brian Herbert takes a
key nugget of information from his father’s books and expands on it. The description of certain aspects of the
no-chamber in Heretics of Dune,
expanded on in one of the prequels is one such example:
Twenty-one skeletons
preserved in transparent plaz along a wall near the core! Macabre observers of
everyone who passed through there to the machinery chambers and the nullentropy
bins.
(Heretics of Dune, p. 224)
I love these connections across such long time periods, this
one from five thousand years prior.
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