DUNE: 0-100 ✨

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What’s up, swimmers? Let’s talk DUNE!

These first 100 pages are so jam-packed that I want to first ground us in the world of DUNE, make sure we understand the political power structures and all of the involved players, and then chat about some symbolism that’s already present within the story.

We’re also going to reflect on who we identify with in the story as we begin to read, and remind ourselves of the emotional core that’s needed as to not over-intellectualize big topics that have devastating real world effects.

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Key words or Events defined:

• The Butlerian Jihad

• The Great Convention

• The Imperium

• The Great Houses of Landsraad

• The Space Guild

• The Bene Gesserits

• CHOAM

• Spice and Melange

Tie-ins and Sources cited:

• The Washington Posts’s Obituary for Frank Herbert

• Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”

• Fanny Priests’s “Home and Native Land” from the newsletter “Resourced”

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Until next time, just keep swimming! xx