Chapter 49
Posted: 09 Jul 2008 17:24
You cannot understand history unless you understand its flowings, its currents
and the ways leaders move within such forces. A leader tries to perpetuate the
conditions which demand his leadership. Thus, the leader requires the outsider.
I caution you to examine my career with care. I am both leader and outsider. Do
not make the mistake of assuming that I only created the Church which was the
State. That was my function as leader and I had many historical models to use as
pattern. For a clue to my role as outsider, look at the arts of my time. The
arts are barbaric. The favorite poetry? The Epic. The popular dramatic ideal?
Heroism. Dances? Wildly abandoned. From Moneo's viewpoint, he is correct in
describing this as dangerous. It stimulates the imagination. It makes people
feel the lack of that which I have taken from them. What did I take from them?
The right to participate in history.
-The Stolen Journals
Duncan and Siona are in their quarters in Tuono when Garun’s aide enters unannounced and informs them that Leto will be wed there. Siona tells Duncan about her raid on the Citadel and the Stolen Journals, he thinks she’s a lousy commander and should have poisoned the wolves beforehand. She tells him about how Leto tested her and that she believes in his Golden Path but not in what he has become. They both agree that he must be killed. Duncan tells her she should order Nayla to use her lasgun against his cart and if she refuses, kill her.
and the ways leaders move within such forces. A leader tries to perpetuate the
conditions which demand his leadership. Thus, the leader requires the outsider.
I caution you to examine my career with care. I am both leader and outsider. Do
not make the mistake of assuming that I only created the Church which was the
State. That was my function as leader and I had many historical models to use as
pattern. For a clue to my role as outsider, look at the arts of my time. The
arts are barbaric. The favorite poetry? The Epic. The popular dramatic ideal?
Heroism. Dances? Wildly abandoned. From Moneo's viewpoint, he is correct in
describing this as dangerous. It stimulates the imagination. It makes people
feel the lack of that which I have taken from them. What did I take from them?
The right to participate in history.
-The Stolen Journals
Duncan and Siona are in their quarters in Tuono when Garun’s aide enters unannounced and informs them that Leto will be wed there. Siona tells Duncan about her raid on the Citadel and the Stolen Journals, he thinks she’s a lousy commander and should have poisoned the wolves beforehand. She tells him about how Leto tested her and that she believes in his Golden Path but not in what he has become. They both agree that he must be killed. Duncan tells her she should order Nayla to use her lasgun against his cart and if she refuses, kill her.
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