Peter sez :"I had somehow missed the shorter version of the litany
in my reading of the dune series. Which book was it in?"
From this, and your post, it's clear that you haven't read
any of the McDune Product currently available at supermarket
checkout bins, bus station bathrooms, dumpsters behind Barnes
& Nobles, and under the piles of National Geographics at
Goodwill.
You missed this "version" of the Litany because Frank didn't
write it - uberHack KEVIN J. ANDERSON (StarWars & X-Files
franchise exploitation Tween paperbacks, a couple of extremely
silly little books based on DC Comics characters, a failure of
an "original" sci-fi series of books (with every idea lifted
straight from a string of real books by actual writers) which
was mysteryiously "wrapped up" about three or four books
short of what Kevin had been crowing about, a painfully
silly book about children on a moonbase, which is actually
a travesty considering is being sold (given away) at the
new NASA-sponsered Challenger Centers (call your congress-
person) did ...
well, no, KEVIN J. ANDERSON can't be bothered to physically
write anything these days, or atleast he can't say so, because
he's tied to his Industry Gimmick of "dictating Perfect Prose"
while "hiking". (see his multiple twits: twitter.com/TheKJA)
&etc. &etc. &etc.
please refer to :
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for most information ....
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
...versus...
I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over.
on straight usage of the English Language, it's clear
(to me) who was an actual author, thinker, poet, and
who is the out-of-breath babbling Pretender staggering
back to his Camry from the summit's snackbar ...
also, without the hyphen, Kevin's missed the subtle play
on "le petite mort" ... but that's really nit-picking,
consider the huge, basic things in Frank's Dune that
Kevin missed, or didn't understand, or never read
(God-emperor of Dune?)
most likely, some one else will come along and point that
not only does the quote read like nothing Frank would ever
even scratch on the back of a placemat in a pizza joint
(but guess who wrote a whole Young Jedi Knight Novel that
way?) this quote is almost a complete upending of the
meaning of the Litany.
read them both, together, back to back; they are not
saying anything close to same thing.
this is KEVIN J. ANDERSON's biggest failure as a "writer" -
he forgets that words mean things ...