:Mood todae (on Left)
If u've ever read Dune its bout a lot of philosophical themes...like Frank Herbert(e author's) guide to life..like he says its not dat absolute power corrupts absoluteli...but rather, absolute power attracts the absoluteli corrupt..
One of e main themes is bout dis dude called Paul Atreides and his gift of seein the future..n all e pitfalls..n how he goes on to become Muad'dib, the Mahdi (prophet) of the wild Fremen peoples who conquer the universe in the name of their Zensunni religious gospel...dis was written 30 year before 9/11 mind u..Muad'dib's Great Jihad it was called...
but he was as much made by the events n circumstances as he shaped them...n den Frank Herbert goes on to talk about cause and effect and circumstances and their shapin...in a later book, after giving his life to the myth surroundin him because he could not stand it..he was brought back thousands of years later as a sorta clone whose memories were activated...n he grapples with conscience and transience...
my fren talked to mi on msn today bout e whole issue of transience and fragility of life and how its over all too soon and how we need to treasure those aroun us n live our lives with meanin...if we had onli one more day to live...would we still b chasin grandiose dreams of phantom futures or build more castles in the sky?or would we spend time wif those who matter to us n try to apologise for all e wrongs we've done n make peace...
"the flesh surrenders itself. eternity takes back its own. our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication b4 the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted 2 e instruments of Time.What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred."
Paul Atreides the clone,
Memories of Muad'dib
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