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“She looked at Paul’s face, his eyes - the inward stare. And she knew where she had seen such a look before: pictured in records of disasters - on the faces of children who experienced starvation or terrible injury. The eyes were like pits, mouth a straight line, cheeks indrawn.

It’s the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality”

I can’t place the right word for it, but Herbert has an interesting way of describing a scene, or interactions, providing characters thoughts as they speak with one another. The way he alludes to larger aspects of the story in the beginning are fun.

Have you ever read a novel and been glad you saw the movie first?