"Frank Herbert - Dune 2 - Dune Messiah (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Herbert Brian & Frank)

Gesserit also denounce you.
A: You Priests do well to make common cause with the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. They, too, survive
by concealing what they do. But they cannot conceal the fact that the Lady Jessica was a Bene
Gesserit-trained adept. You know she trained her son in the sisterhood's ways. My crime was to
discuss this as a phenomenon, to expound upon their mental arts and their genetic program. You
don't want attention called to the fact that Muad'dib was the Sisterhood's hoped for captive
messiah, that he was their kwisatz haderach before he was your prophet.
Q: If I had any doubts about your death sentence, you have dispelled them.
A: I can only die once.
Q: There are deaths and there are deaths.
A: Beware lest you make a martyr of me. I do not think Muad'dib . . . Tell me, does Muad'dib know
what you do in these dungeons?
Q: We do not trouble the Holy Family with trivia.
A: (Laughter) And for this Paul Atreides fought his way to a niche among the Fremen! For this he


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learned to control and ride the sandworm! It was a mistake to answer your questions.
Q: But I will keep my promise to preserve your words.
A: Will you really? Then listen to me carefully, you Fremen degenerate, you Priest with no god
except yourself! You have much to answer for. It was a Fremen ritual which gave Paul his first
massive dose of melange, thereby opening him to visions of his futures. It was a Fremen ritual by
which that same melange awakened the unborn Alia in the Lady Jessica's womb. Have you considered
what it meant for Alia to be born into this universe fully cognitive, possessed of all her
mother's memories and knowledge? No rape could be more terrifying.
Q: Without the sacred melange Muad'dib would not have become leader of all Fremen. Without her
holy experience Alia would not be Alia.
A: Without your blind Fremen cruelty you would not be a priest. Ahhh, I know you Fremen. You think
Muad'dib is yours because he mated with Chani, because he adopted Fremen customs. But he was an
Atreides first and he was trained by a Bene Gesserit adept. He possessed disciplines totally
unknown to you. You thought he brought you new organization and a new mission. He promised to
transform your desert planet into a water-rich paradise. And while he dazzled you with such
visions, he took your virginity!
Q: Such heresy does not change the fact that the Ecological Transformation of Dune proceeds apace.
A: And I committed the heresy of tracing the roots of that transformation, of exploring the
consequences. That battle out there on the Plains of Arrakeen may have taught the universe that
Fremen could defeat Imperial Sardaukar, but what else did it teach? When the stellar empire of the
Corrino Family became a Fremen empire under Muad'dib, what else did the Empire become? Your Jihad
only took twelve years, but what a lesson it taught. Now, the Empire understands the sham of
Muad'dib's marriage to the Princess Irulan!
Q: You dare accuse Muad'dib of sham!
A: Though you kill me for it, it's not heresy. The Princess became his consort, not his mate.
Chani, his little Fremen darling -- she's his mate. Everyone knows this. Irulan was the key to a
throne, nothing more.
Q: It's easy to see why those who conspire against Muad'dib use your Analysis of History as their
rallying argument!
A: I'll not persuade you; I know that. But the argument of the conspiracy came before my Analysis.
Twelve years of Muad'dib's Jihad created the argument. That's what united the ancient power groups