Chapter 50
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 11:16
You think power may be the most unstable of all human achievements? Then what of
the apparent exceptions to this inherent instability? Some families endure. Very
powerful religious bureaucracies have been known to endure. Consider the
relationship between faith and power. Are they mutually exclusive when each
depends upon the other? The Bene Gesserit have been reasonably secure within the
loyal walls of faith for thousands of years. But where has their power gone?
-The Stolen Journals
Leto, Moneo, Hwi and the rest of Leto’s entourage begin the wedding peregrination from the Citadel and head up the Rimwall surrounding the Sareer. Hwi asks Leto what went on between him an Malky. He tells her that he told Malky that some things shouldn’t be invented. Malky called him a fool, in a world without birds men would still invent aircraft. Leto fears that the Ixians could invent catastrophy. Education helps but it is not enough, you must outrun catastrophy. She says he is sharing his soul with her which upsets him. She says he lives in the tension between the love and fear of loving. Love is all he understands and he has faith in life. Leto sheds tears which burn his cowl. She wipes them from his cheeks, the first person to touch them since his transformation began. He tells her he will share his sould with her.
the apparent exceptions to this inherent instability? Some families endure. Very
powerful religious bureaucracies have been known to endure. Consider the
relationship between faith and power. Are they mutually exclusive when each
depends upon the other? The Bene Gesserit have been reasonably secure within the
loyal walls of faith for thousands of years. But where has their power gone?
-The Stolen Journals
Leto, Moneo, Hwi and the rest of Leto’s entourage begin the wedding peregrination from the Citadel and head up the Rimwall surrounding the Sareer. Hwi asks Leto what went on between him an Malky. He tells her that he told Malky that some things shouldn’t be invented. Malky called him a fool, in a world without birds men would still invent aircraft. Leto fears that the Ixians could invent catastrophy. Education helps but it is not enough, you must outrun catastrophy. She says he is sharing his soul with her which upsets him. She says he lives in the tension between the love and fear of loving. Love is all he understands and he has faith in life. Leto sheds tears which burn his cowl. She wipes them from his cheeks, the first person to touch them since his transformation began. He tells her he will share his sould with her.