Prepare yourself for a random inundation of shenanigans from the past year.
xo
Dune — Frank Herbert
Everywhere I went, in both physical and virtual worlds, this book kept popping up. When I went home for winter break, my dad explained a reference a movie had made to Dune and told me that it was an acclaimed science fiction novel. Then a few weeks ago while scouring my news feed my friends status alluded to Dune. I took it as a sign from the universe that I needed to devote some quality time to the exploration of a new and promising story.
My expectations are quite elevated. I love science fiction as an examination (and projection) of how humans would act in situations wildly different to the earthly circumstances that we experience on a day-to-day basis. What is always striking, however, is not the extraordinary differences, but the similarities stemming from the thorough understanding of humanity that good science fiction authors possess. The themes that exist by virtue of human characters. I am only on page 76 and many of these themes are already presenting themselves — family dynamics, education, political strategy and, most interesting to me, environmentalism.
must… keep… reading…
“Many have marked the speed with which Muad’Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad’Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad’Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.” p. 65, 66
“What is a word? The copy of a nerve stimulus in sounds.”
“All the different languages, set alongside one another, show that when it comes to words, truth—full and adequate expression—is never what matters; otherwise there wouldn’t be so many languages. The “thing in itself” (which would be, precisely, pure truth without consequences) is utterly unintelligible, even for the creator of a language, and certainly nothing to strive for, for he designates only the relations of things to human beings and helps himself to the boldest metaphors.”
“Give it up America, you’re never going to be as cool as the British.”
Sydney Gellner
via her radio show “Beats & Sneaks”
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haha, so my friend tells me you live out of the country…. but be there in spirit!
gateaudesang replied to your photo: COACHELLA. Now I’m just waiting for the…
robyn is adorable,but her music ain’t extremely awesome.though koniwhiwa bitches is a guilty pleasure.i wish i could go=’
I honestly haven’t heard of either of those bands, but I’m ridiculously excited! you can always volunteer, then you don’t have to pay!! minus food and merch of course…