"Omphalos" <gtidwell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Oct 30, 3:23 pm, "Tony" <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Is it im****tant to consider the 60s when interpreting Dune?
>
> I think so. In the beginning of the series I think Herbert bought a
> little bit into the sixties notion that consciousness can be expanded
> by drugs and chemicals. I think its more true that he was actually
> writing about human potential, but the fact is that drugs played a big
> part of that.
What was Timothy Leary's famous phrase: Turn on, tune in, drop out? Well
Paul turned on to Spice, tuned into prescience, but he didn't drop out.
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