Yasmeen Gill’s Reviews > Chapterhouse: Dune > Status Update

I love the scenery in these last two books especially. The visual of Chapter House is so beautiful

‘Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.’

‘Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.’

This definition of maturity just really helped tie the novels themes together for me— as in what even is/was the bene gesserits and leto2’s goal? Reinforces that aspect of humanity being free of prescience and able to choose decisions for thenselves more freely

— this may be a stretch but it reminds me of how many systems are built on the backs of those who are meant to be oppressed. And it also shows, if there is nobody left to be superior to, when are you going to begin the infighting?

Okay okay and when murbella says that those things r childish to her now, and this page put perspective on what ‘maturity’ really means- ‘Maturity imposes its own behaviour…’ this reminds me of how murbella reflects that the HM have a reliance on the BG though they do not see it. —

I was skimming back im crine the samr page theyre talking about how to keep people in-line in a corrupt democracy and corrupt juries ‘beware the orange’ 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I like how with Murbella it goes into the appeal of such groups like the HM- the belonging and inevitable sense of victory

But what i wanted to write was mostly the bg taking on the tyrants role is interesting to me bc it occurred to me beforehand when they manage spice allotments. Frank also confirmed my feelings abut extremes and control with the HM.Lucilla also confirmed the fragility of the bg and what i see is just them being pulled into necessities. The HM being likened to romans and atreides (dar) being associated with the greeks

Anywayyy i also ship bell and dar now. Dar and tar was fucking peak nro dont get me wrong but theyve got something going on