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Chapter 30

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This Fremen religious adaptation, then, is the source of what we now recognize
as "The Pillars of the Universe," whose Qizara Tafwid are among us all with
signs and proofs and prophecy. They bring us the Arrakeen mystical fusion whose
profound beauty is typified by the stirring music built on the old forms, but
stamped with the new awakening. Who has not heard and been deeply moved by "The
Old Man's Hymn"?
I drove my feet through a desert
Whose mirage fluttered like a host.
Voracious for glory, greedy for danger,
I roamed the horizons of al-Kulab,
Watching time level mountains
In its search and its hunger for me.
And I saw the sparrows swiftly approach,
Bolder than the onrushing wolf.
They spread in the tree of my youth.
I heard the flock in my branches
And was caught on their beaks and claws!

-from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan

Liet Kynes has been left in the desert to die without stillsuit or water. He's semi-delerious yet he still can't stop being an ecologist. He can smell a dangerous spice blow in the sands beneath him. He hears the voice of his father, lecturing him on ecology. He hopes his Fremen friends will see the vultures circling above him and come to investigate. The thought of the water in the pre-spice mass below him is madening. A worm is sure to come to the spice blow but he has no maker hooks to mount it. I a flash of realization, Kynes realizes what a hero to the people could do in this landscape. He has already sent word to the Fremen to look for and protect Paul and Jessica. The birds on the sand near him flee as a gas bubble lifts him then swallows him in the sand. His dying thoughts are that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
They were destroyed because they lied pretentiously. Have no fear that my wrath
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.

~Leto II, God Emperor
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