I first picked up the classic scifi book Dune by Frank Herbert when I was in high school, and only at my father’s insistence. I struggled through it, and literally in the second I finished it I went back and started it again. Having read it once I now had enough context to read it again and understand a lot more. I now read it again every year or so and, remarkably, I still find new thoughts stirred up even by passages I have read many times. It is one of my TOP FIVE scifi books I’ve ever read.
Towards the end there is a scene where Stilgar, one of the protagonist Paul’s friends, mentors, and at the time of the scene I am recalling a key right-hand man, hears Paul’s commenting about rain on his birth world – a water-rich world nearly-diametric opposite the desert planet Arrakis where he now is – and repeats, almost chants, Water from the sky! with worshipful tones. He had, noted Paul, become a creature of the Kwisatz Haderach, the prophesized messiah.
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