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"the second novel in the series flipped over the carefully hero myth of Paul Maud'Dib and revealed the dark side of the Messiah... that had appeared to be so glorious in Dune... few readers realized that the story of Paul Atreides was not only a Greek tragedy... He was cautioning against the pride of overconfidence, that form of narcissism described in Greek tragedies that invariably led to the great fall"

Oh boy!

Hmm this is really feeling like a textbook written in the 1830s for audiences like the genius and prolific writer Charles Dickens.... I mean what did I expect??