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Page 4 and the characters start talking shit on Richard Attenborough and honestly it’s hilarious because who debates if Richard Attenborough is a good guy or not?

Forgetting my book and my kindle at home lead to this airport buy - let’s seeeeee

“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a hero.”

“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never persistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”

Dune is my first book of 2026, let’s goooooo

Starting this after House of Leaves and I’m not sure if that means I enjoy continuously fucking with my brain or if I’m on a mission to defeat every pretentious man I have ever, and will ever, meet who takes themselves way too seriously? I guess we’ll never know!

Technically only on page 74, but at this point it’s easily triple digits - between footnotes, exhibits, and parallel stories

Small errors in words jumped out to me early on, and then came along the footnote:

“I’ve come to believe that errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of the soul.”

It’s time for me to start this journey - the plan is to tackle piece by piece - this one is a marathon