also the term "pre-spice mass" strikes me a hilarious but idk why
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 August 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
i know what you mean, there is something subtly kooky about the whole liet kynes thing
like there's that whole scene where the harkonnens throw him out onto the sand over a pre-spice mass and he's having this ecological ephiphany but all i'm thinking is fart jokes
― the late great, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
i wanted more explicit info about the spice orgies tbh
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
also i was left wishing i had a connect to sell me like a gram of spice, that shit sounds p good
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
it's just nutmeg, duh
― the late great, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
smoke that shit w/ some banana peels son
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:52 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark
I think of like, smegma, or ambergris
― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Friday, 3 August 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
still haven't gone on to reread heretics/chapterhouse yet
you will!
YOU WILL!!!!
― the late great, Friday, 3 August 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
I've just re-read all six. It was a bit of a slog in places and I think he wastes some interesting characters by jumping forward millennia at a time between books but overall I think it's a wonderfully imaginative series.
yeah the idea of mastering innate human potential as opposed to technological potential is i think the master stroke of the series
otm - Mentat calculation, Bene Gesserit awareness, Truthsaying, etc. plus all the heightened physical abilities are all things that one could maybe believe would be possible were the human body and brain to be pushed to their full potential.
― maybe it's a Hartlepool scarf? (onimo), Friday, 3 August 2012 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
honing your pinky toe to killing strength in the digit mill
― the late great, Friday, 3 August 2012 09:49 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure frank herbert's mom or mother in law or exwife had the voice
― the late great, Friday, 3 August 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
I've never seen this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueYYVRTWmjY
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 16 December 2012 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/GDMPRRFDBC1981.jpghttp://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/23-1n019-jesus3-c-300x300.jpg
this was the first thing i thought of when that painting "restoration" thing happened which probably speaks ill for my mind
― back in judy's tenuta (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 16 December 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
the spicy adventures of BEAN GESSERIT and BENE DAD in wormworld
― mark s, Saturday, 6 November 2021 11:41 (two years ago) link
ghola revive
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 6 November 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link