-Dune, p. 209.
"'...one reason we've come as far as we have, is that nobody has ever forced the whole race into a copy of himself - we've always had variety, always had the rebel and the heretic. We need them!'"
-Question And Answer, CHAPTER XVIII, p. 145.
This is a suitable note of agreement on which to end blogging for this evening. Right now, I am finding Dune more involving than Question And Answer but am continuing to reread both.
I read John Grisham's The Firm because I had seen the film. I am rereading Dune because of its three screen versions. If Poul Anderson's works were to be filmed, then hopefully many would read them for the first time.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Again, I was reminded of "The High Ones." The tragedy for the Zolotoyans in that story was how, ages before, a total state arose which eliminated all challenges and varieties. A process ending with elimination of the thinking mind. A perfectly planned state!
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: actually I don't think that's possible, if the species was anything like human beings to start with.
Human institutions can't maintain purpose that long.
They always decay, and they're always riven by internal struggles, and they always change their aims.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I certainly hope you are right. And that certainly seems to be the case with the human race.
Even so, "The High Ones" has stuck in my mind for decades.
Ad astra! Sean
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