1969 interview with McNelly : video & new transcript

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Revised transcript (2016) :

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❒ Summary :

• 0:00:00 – Presentation
  0:00:36 – The Pacific Coast Road and the dunes of Florence
  0:03:50 – Ecology, desert planet and Arabian/Navajo mystique
  0:05:34 – Kalahari primitives & survival
  0:06:18 – Back to Florence, Oregon
  0:07:02 – We’re corrupting our environment
  0:08:17 – We –Western men– subdue Nature
  0:09:08 – The death of the West, Pardot Kynes
  0:10:42 – Ecology: the science of understanding consequences
  0:11:45 – Factions & feuds, the name of the game is power
  0:12:22 – Imperialism
  0:14:12 – Ethical norm, moral laws and environment
  0:16:16 – Paul’s dilemma and the fallacy of absolutism
  0:17:28 – Tribal norms vs personal ethics : Paul & Stilgar
  0:18:38 – Writing process, rhythm and poetry analogy
  0:20:05 – Working orally: sentence structure & pace mastering
  0:21:34 – There is no real ending
  0:22:06 – Turning the story around on itself. Historicity & POV
  0:23:15 – The duel. Agonistic epilogue & coital rhythm
  0:24:34 – Reasons why stories are remembered
  0:26:14 – Creative imagination & roleplay: sparks have flown
  0:27:31 – Behind the throne, the game of the Bene Gesserit
  0:30:01 – Controlling people with voice, propaganda, politics
  0:32:57 – Metamessage, communication, general semantics
  0:35:13 – Conrad’s Nostromo and the economy of corruption
  0:37:17 – Longue durée, human emotions and social structures
  0:38:40 – Natural order, feudalism … and german beavers
  0:39:53 – Feudalism is tribal organization
  0:41:02 – Lines of power: feudal skeleton & interdependence
  0:42:46 – Environment interdependence and cyclic nature
  0:45:05 – Shai-Hulud as archetypal beast
  0:46:41 – Lacanian images: gold, spice hoard, organic matters
  0:47:19 – So, you start creating your own story
  0:48:07 – John W. Campbell
  0:49:27 – Then, there is no real ending
  0:49:53 – Lord Raglan’s steps of the hero and death
  0:50:40 – The curse of prognostication
  0:51:50 – Oedipus in Arrakis, omniscience and blindness
  0:53:23 – Paul is not an esper hero
  0:54:17 – Analog, Galaxy and the Nebula
  0:55:02 – Sand trout, melange & Shai-Hulud: the spice cycle
  0:57:13 – Accumulation of data and physical writing process
  0:58:27 – Writing schedule
  1:00:48 – A life beyond SF: ecology activism
  1:02:19 – Analog/Chilton, selling Dune
  1:03:38 – Dragon in the Sea: US & Japanese royalties
  1:03:57 – Herbert and the Japanese American community
  1:05:01 – Dune Messiah’s forthcoming publication
  1:05:33 – The (unreleased) Dune Tarot
  1:06:12 – Fortune-telling, petit perception, ignition principles
  1:08:20 – Prophecy, western eyes and basic fallacy in science
  1:09:25 – Eastern ignition and Jungian synchronicity
  1:10:42 – ESP cards
  1:14:15 – Messiah & mythmaking process (Muhammad, JFK)
  1:16:16 – Lawrence of Arabia, an aborted mythology
  1:17:28 – Comparative religion, the hero with a thousand faces
  1:18:32 – Zen & self development
  1:19:12 – Haiku, tanka and Dune poetry

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I do not see a link to the video or conversation of this interview in this topic. My search didn't find any other. I assume I didn't search well enough but I find it important to at least post this link to the 1969 interview just in case we missed it somehow.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-mLVVJkH7I[/youtube]

I would like to be corrected.