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Leto's dreams.
Posted: 01 Nov 2010 10:45
by DragEgusku
I wonder what he meant Leto, when he said: "Sometimes my dreams are trapped and radio-directed to strange places." Me, the term "radio-directed" I suggest an external control on Leto's dreams. If so, I wonder who or what exercise such control.
Maybe he meant anything by that time and are curious what Leto's phrase. For more accurate, the quote is from the God-Emperor of Dune.
Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 01 Nov 2010 12:31
by A Thing of Eternity
Weird, I just re-read that book recently and can't remember reading that line. Maybe someone else with searchable PDFs (mine are on another computer) can confirm whether that is a correct quote? What I'm wondering is if that's possibly a translation issue - were you looking at an original English copy of the book, or a translation?
EDIT: and of course I might just be forgetting that passage!
Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 01 Nov 2010 12:46
by lotek
I don't remember it either...
But then again GEoD is just so full of small talk it's like listening to an old drunk in a bar

Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 01 Nov 2010 13:42
by Omphalos
British vs. American printings?
Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 01 Nov 2010 15:04
by merkin muffley
A Google translation of a translation?
Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 01 Nov 2010 20:25
by Freakzilla
Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 01 Nov 2010 20:39
by SandChigger
Chapter 21 (by my reckoning):
"Sometimes my dreams are blocked off and redirected into strange places," he said. "If my cosmic memories are a web, as you two certainly know, then think about the dimensions of my web and where such memories and dreams might lead."
Sounds to me like a bad translation, somewhere.
DragEgusku, if you don't currently have access to the English versions of the books, please be sure to ask here for the exact quotes before launching off into strange speculations, OK?

Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 08:12
by DragEgusku
OK, I understand.
We had available in Romanian translation as published by a Romanian publisher. But it's true that I quoted from memory, not text. Sorry.
In any case, I was referring to the passage quoted by SandChigger.
What he meant Leto? Even I could not understand what this phrase.
Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 08:42
by Freakzilla
Basically he's saying, imagine what your dreams would be like if you had the memories of all your ancestors to build them on.
Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:24
by DragEgusku
Thanks for clarifying. So Leto dream otherwise (in comparison with ordinary people, ie without ancestral memory). Interesting. Altogether, trying to better understand the God-Emperor of Dune. It's a book that seems complex.
Regarding dreams, Leto says that when you reach the final transformation, each worm will carry a pearl of his consciousness, which will be awake in a dream forever.
I hope this time I quoted accurately.

Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:31
by Freakzilla
DragEgusku wrote:Thanks for clarifying.
I exist only to serve.
So Leto dream otherwise (in comparison with ordinary people, ie without ancestral memory). Interesting. Altogether, trying to better understand the God-Emperor of Dune. It's a book that seems complex.
It is.
Regarding dreams, Leto says that when you reach the final transformation, each worm will carry a pearl of his consciousness, which will be awake in a dream forever.
I hope this time I quoted accurately.

That is correct.
Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:42
by DragEgusku
Freakzilla wrote:
I exist only to serve.
Take part of the Bene Gesserit?

Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 02 Nov 2010 10:48
by Freakzilla
DragEgusku wrote:Freakzilla wrote:
I exist only to serve.
Take part of the Bene Gesserit?

As much as a male can.

Re: Leto's dreams.
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 10:02
by HarryCanyon
lotek wrote:I don't remember it either...
But then again GEoD is just so full of small talk it's like listening to an old drunk in a bar

LOL, maybe it's from from that Romanian translation like you said because i don't remember that being in the book.