“Sly Little Rascal”

Paul Atreides’s first action in Dune is an imitation that fails.   As Reverend Mother Mohiam looks in on him, he pretends to be asleep.  Looking back from the end, we may call what he attempts “concealment in a no-consciousness,” while in light of Plato’s Sophist, we may call it “concealment in nonbeing.”  But Reverend Mother Mohiam, [...]

Irulan Seems to Be Mostly Wrong

A beginning seems to be a fine time at which to note that a character, even one that is made to speak authoritatively, is not necessarily a spokesman for the author.  A beginning may not be a time for letting some literary princess tell us what is so.  Consider what a poor model quantitative precision of correct [...]