>Hi Lee, and all...
>Very Nice new version of "your FAQ" very easy and fast to consult.
>All the "hot discussions" of last week and probably the quotation of
>Christopher Biggs about the
>>Fremen dew globe< (hope I didn't need it in Death Valley !) have reminds me
>one of my favorite Frank Herbert thought.
>As I'm one of "those clever people who are using English as a 2nd language"
>(Chris Barker quotation ), or American for the matter and as it's today the
>14th of July for the "revolutionary" Gary Schloss I'll quote it in French
>(as a Belgian I cannot be suspected of "chauvinisme"). It's in the first
>book of Dune, just after Duke Leto's death an excerpt of "Les Dits de
>Muad'Dib" by Princess Irulan:
>"Il devrait exister une science de la conrariété. Les gens ont besoin
>d'épreuves difficiles et d'oppression pour développer leurs muscles
>psychiques"
>I hope somebody could quote it in the original version for all the
>subtleties of language.
>Probably OM is our "spice"..!
>regards
>marc
"There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and
oppression to develop psychic muscles." -- from 'Collected Sayings of
Muad'Dib' by the Princess Irulan
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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