That analogy to Venice is all kinds of awesome. Never considered reading the Dune books through that lens.
(mainly because, by the time I got to Heretics of Dune, I was incapable of doing anything other than boggling at the orange-eyed evil ninja women from spaaaaace (though I recall them as being evil temple prostitutes rather than ninja. Maybe they were both). And, OMG, the dancing on the sand! I had entirely blanked that subplot from my memory until now!)
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Mon, Apr. 14th, 2008 08:59 pm (UTC)(mainly because, by the time I got to Heretics of Dune, I was incapable of doing anything other than boggling at the orange-eyed evil ninja women from spaaaaace (though I recall them as being evil temple prostitutes rather than ninja. Maybe they were both). And, OMG, the dancing on the sand! I had entirely blanked that subplot from my memory until now!)