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Owned by Insignis - Created on 06/22/2005 - Never edited 02/26/08 :: Quote :: Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess IrulanDo you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly. 01/17/08 :: Quote :: Gurney HalleckI'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me--all bearing for someone else to pick. 01/17/08 :: Quote :: "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain." 09/04/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: The God Fuse07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamYou've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind. 07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen Mohiam'That which submits rules.' ... The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows -- a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose. 06/28/05 :: Article :: Skepticism :: 06/22/05 :: Quote :: Dune, by Frank Herberthe fell into the floating awareness . . . focusing the consciousness . . . aortal dilation . . . avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness . . . to be conscious by choice . . . blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions . . . one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone . . . animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its vi [...]  07/24/05 :: Person :: Frank Herbert05/21/06 :: Thing :: Dune :: Classic sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert, 1965 07/24/05 :: Folder :: Understanding & Comprehension |
