A Mentat came at his universe fresh in each instant. Nothing old, nothing new, nothing set in ancient adhesives, nothing truly known. You were the net and you existed only to examine the catch. What did not go through? How fine a mesh did I use on this lot? That was the Mentat view. But there was no way the Tleilaxu could have included all of those ghola-Idaho cells to recreate him. There had to be gaps in their serial collection of his cells. He had identified many of those gaps. But no gaps in my memory. I remember them all. He was a network linked outside of Time. That is how I can see the
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Duncan is like Tolstoy’s net, BG more like river? Mentat = net?
