Jᴀᴄᴜʀᴜᴛᴜ - Tʜᴇ Cᴀsᴛ Oᴜᴛ

Freakzilla wrote:I saw this picture and thought of Jacurutu (butte):

A dumbass hack or two in House Atrocious wrote:"With Salusan bulls?" Leto asked, picturing in his mind the spine-backed beasts, their black heads studded with multiple horns, their eyes faceted. When he had been a younger boy, Leto had often gone into the stables to look at the monstrous animals. Stablemaster Yresk, one of his mother's old retainers from Richese, tended the bulls for Paulus's occasional spectacles.
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Heavy gates opened with a grinding of suspensor hinges, and the Salusan bull charged out, shaking its massive, multiple-horned head in the dazzling light. Its faceted eyes glittered with feral rage. The scales on the mutated creature's back reflected iridescent colors from its black hide.
...
Eventually the bull became exhausted, its eyes reddened with blood, its snorts heavy and tired as it spilled its life fluid onto the powdery surface of the arena.

SandChigger wrote:

A dumbass hack or two in House Atrocious wrote:"Stablemaster Yresk, one of his mother's old retainers from Richese, tended the bulls for Paulus's occasional spectacles.

SandChigger wrote:

A dumbass hack or two in House Atrocious wrote:"With Salusan bulls?" Leto asked, picturing in his mind the spine-backed beasts, their black heads studded with multiple horns, their eyes faceted. When he had been a younger boy, Leto had often gone into the stables to look at the monstrous animals. Stablemaster Yresk, one of his mother's old retainers from Richese, tended the bulls for Paulus's occasional spectacles.
...
Heavy gates opened with a grinding of suspensor hinges, and the Salusan bull charged out, shaking its massive, multiple-horned head in the dazzling light. Its faceted eyes glittered with feral rage. The scales on the mutated creature's back reflected iridescent colors from its black hide.
...
Eventually the bull became exhausted, its eyes reddened with blood, its snorts heavy and tired as it spilled its life fluid onto the powdery surface of the arena.

I think it's kinda obvious from those descriptions that it's McDune. (And that's not the scene where the Old Duke dies, either.)

I mean, the scene isn't described in any great detail in the original books.

Beside the painting lay a black bull's
head mounted on a polished board. The head was a dark island in a sea of wadded
paper. Its plaque lay flat on the floor, and the bull's shiny muzzle pointed at
the ceiling as though the beast were ready to bellow a challenge into this
echoing room.

In the dining hall of the Arrakeen great house, suspensor lamps had been
lighted against the early dark. They cast their yellow glows upward onto the
black bull's head with its bloody horns, and onto the darkly glistening oil
painting of the Old Duke.

The fierce black beast had stood there, head bowed, immobilized and
confused. The Old Duke had turned his back on the horns, cape thrown
flamboyantly over one arm, while cheers rained down from the stands.

SandChigger wrote:There's no indication in the originals that the bull was anything other than a normal Terran bull. (Though not from Terra, of course.)

SandChigger wrote:You can't see it in the painting here, but the bulls supposedly had insectoid compound eyes.

SandChigger wrote:

A dumbass hack or two in House Atrocious wrote:"With Salusan bulls?" Leto asked, picturing in his mind the spine-backed beasts, their black heads studded with multiple horns, their eyes faceted. When he had been a younger boy, Leto had often gone into the stables to look at the monstrous animals. Stablemaster Yresk, one of his mother's old retainers from Richese, tended the bulls for Paulus's occasional spectacles.
...
Heavy gates opened with a grinding of suspensor hinges, and the Salusan bull charged out, shaking its massive, multiple-horned head in the dazzling light. Its faceted eyes glittered with feral rage. The scales on the mutated creature's back reflected iridescent colors from its black hide.
...
Eventually the bull became exhausted, its eyes reddened with blood, its snorts heavy and tired as it spilled its life fluid onto the powdery surface of the arena.

I think it's kinda obvious from those descriptions that it's McDune. (And that's not the scene where the Old Duke dies, either.)

I mean, the scene isn't described in any great detail in the original books.

SandChigger wrote:

It wasn't meant as a battle or contest. Just explaining my reaction...

Frank Herbert wrote:It is said of Muad'dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. 'That was its fate,' he explained." --From The Commentaries Of Muad'dib

inhuien wrote:Did you notice the drawings as well as the spelling mistake?

Nekhrun wrote:

inhuien wrote:Did you notice the drawings as well as the spelling mistake?

I think once I notice mistakes like that it's hard to focus on other things. I checked out his website and am surprised that someone could take the care to interpret the quote but be so careless in other ways. I'd like to see more if he would be a little more careful.