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A twin perished, and the possessed was found.
New, fast-faced intrigues unfold inside the world of Dune.

I'll try to measure of many pages I read in half an hour. They are great conversation starters. You can say it goes way beyond entertainment to quantify the self.

A few pages before reading half the book. Today it took me way too long to check my GoodReads profile to see what page I'm reading.

The twins are on an adventure while lost. An adventure fighting a tiger with a poisoned weapon unfolds.

The priest's part of the plot ends with him dying.
Jessica's children are missing thought to be at the desert.
Jesica remember her mother's teachings.

My thoughts: Is the action getting more fluid, developed into its own world and less scientific (in a political science sense? )

San Agustín: Tocar con el corazón, esto es creer. Fé y razón. Audición y lo táctil.

Una palabra que ilumina desde dentro. El amor se vive en cuerpo y alma. La fé despierta el sentido crítico, así la investigación no se limita a fórmulas.

Grandes doctores y teólogos medievales han indicado que la teología, como ciencia de la fé, es como un diálogo eterno del conocimiento propio de Dios compartido con el hombre.

End of Chapter 2 assures that to be great a sales it's only critical getting better by learning and acquiring sales knowledge.

Chapter 3 begins by telling that lofty goal setting doesn't exactly lives to its hype.

Also, focus on leading indicators is much more powerful than lagging indicators. (# of prospects to call vs closed deals)

Me: Just acknowledge primarily the lagging indicators with your sales manager.

A suspicious relative, the logical uselessness of The Guild.

Idaho, as a mentat, ponders the political relationship of CHOAM, house Corrino or other group.

The Priest's doings are quietly present among a few of the attendees.

Jessica and Alia's public court life is described. Jessica's thoughts are shown, while a plot unravels.

Me: How many science fiction authors have inspired from such paralell dynamics?

Alia, Idaho, and Irulan discuss elements of a seemingly evolving plot.

Mystery surrounds The Preacher.

The Atreides family have a push-pull relationship with their allies. What will happen with their power?

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Alia and Duncan speak as she plans to abduct her mother.

Idaho as a mentat (human computer) plans to carry her wishes his own way. He believes her psychic state is abomination, which is dangerous.

The author is building suspense, which can only be solved through climax.

Latest scene, so far:

Alia is well aware, and secure in her ability to do.
The preacher is a popular figure that may cause power struggles.

Me:

The name Dune itself is a reminder of the origins of large religions (perhaps with the exception of Buddhism - Giving syncretism a large blow)

The desert is a common theme, perhaps keeping the effervescence of their mystic realities grounded to a physical symbol.

3 male characters discuss social goals, and the nature of power.

Truth is, it's interesting from the viewpoint of political science. Remember Plato, the Republic?
Isn't the subject a core theme in world building?

The last 20 pages: A case of a possession dynamic, punished by death, evolves under the reader's eyes.

Assan Tariq becomes a man through a rite of passage. Leto and Ganima follow their own ritual.

Me: Each scene follows a different and sometimes deep relationship between concepts that are explored throughout a myriad of main themes.

Notas:

Amor y verdad no se pueden separar.

San Gregorio Magno escribe que "El amor mismo es un conocimiento, lleva consigo una lógica nueva."

San Pablo formula: "La fe nace del mensaje que se escucha. " y la "obediencia de la fe."

Se explica la fé a través de ver, escuchar y creer.

La fé no invita a mirar una verdad puramente interior.

The last 20 pages were about:

The Bene Gesserit (the powerful females) test of humanity througout pain, and will Leto become abominal?

Alia exposes power as dangerous.

Jessica: Love or duty?

Lastly the short story of Alia and Paymon (Hint: Paymon betrays someone)

Description of events:

Princess Wensicia, with Tyekanik, discuss political strategies and their desire to see House Corrino regain power.

Jessica and Ghanima talk to each other

Alia's burden of inherited memories, description of her moments after her realizations.

The character's spoken art shows:

Haiku style phrases, then descriptions of the latest discoveries in natural technology:
Forests over generational dunes.
Elegies to natural water fountains on foreign planets.

Descriptions of their proverbial bodysuits, created to make every drop of water count.

The ancient embodied, and admired, image of the preacher appeared, this time with pragmatic ends.

Reading at ease, the book I feel it as it's intended to be read, taken as a narration.

Nothwidstanding, thinking about the minutiae is also reawarding, in a sense.

The author presents the origins of characters way before they were born. Inside the book, acquaintances are being made, so far.

Su Santidad, como yo lo entiendo, dice que uno es casi nada porque Cristo actúa en uno, pero las otras opciones, ya experimentadas socialmente, son peores.

Parece una equivocación la versión de La Biblia cuando cambia el término subsistir a comprender.

San Pablo: "Con el corazón se cree."

Notas

La fe es lo opuesto a la idolatría.
Moisés como mediador entre Dios e Israel.
Jesús, como prueba de fe que dió la vida por sus amigos y enemigos.
Su santidad cita a Dostoievski, en "el idiota".
La fe en Jesús muestra que Dios ama el mundo orientándolo hacia sí.
La discusión de San Pablo con los Corintios es acerca de las obras. Siendo la fuente de la bondad, Dios y que sin él se tornan estériles

Notes:

There's no correlation between guru stories and sales success.

In America, you can't copy how a sales star or superstar made their way, since their circumstances are unique.

Salesmanship cannot be taught by a book.

Me: This is a notable, current thought provoking book.

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Summary:

Paul Atteides became Muad'Dib. Scarry superior twins, separated from other human. They possessed memories that made them elderly in practice.

Ruminations like this star the novel's first pages.

Notas:(16 de 80)

La fé comunica una llamada y una promesa. Memoria Futuri. En la Biblia aparece del hebreo hemna: Fidelidad de Dios o fe del hombre.

La luz de la fé está vinculada al retrato concreto de la vida. Lo contrario de la fé es la idolatría. El rabino de Kock la expresa: Cuando "Un rostro se dirige reverentemente a un rostro que no es un rostro." El ídolo hecho por nos. no habla, surge el politeísmo.

Página 8 de 88. Encíclica exportada a PDF del sitio web del Vaticano, como característica de este.

El obispo de Roma, Bergoglio, su santidad, se expresa perfectamente acerca de la fé. Viendo un poco más allá del "salto de fé", su encíclica, completamente racional, es en sí, prueba de lo que dice, sin ser redundante.

Scytale, a character threatens Paul with a knife, demanding all CHOAM holdings, Paul swiftly ended the scene with a swift move.

Finally Paul, Duncan, and Stilgar are roaming, being Duncan's relationship with Paul now not as an adult tutor, but as a contemporary companion.

After a brief Epilogue-poem the book ends on page 230.

Chani, carrying Paul's twins, is his confident. Paul's diatribe is now about despotism.

Then, a day of empire management is shown until the chapter ends, not without uncovering about Dune's geography and relationships.

Conversation between the "new" Duncan Idaho & a Dwarf. They talk about feats coupled with Duncan's future. (Then nascent's cryogenics are mentioned)

Duncan's future's predicted ambiguously.

Paul is in a different place where Alia is going through a ritual. The text includes sacred words directed to the Goddess of war.

The streets seemed nothing less than a carnival. Then a dream-like vision. Otheym and Lichna take part in the conversation.

Page 168, the emperor summarizes the why of many legalism on a quote.

There are Muad'dib songs. Finally, morning scene between Chani and Paul. (Only 55 pg left)

I haphazardly read these last pages the last few days. I remember dialogue at first where Paul was speaking his mind, finally Chani takes the scenario, by being the subject of the conversation.

After uploading the document with the AI, it tells me these last pages are all about Paul, the empire, his decisions... But I believe there's much else going on on a personal level.

I haphazardly read these last pages the last few days. I remember dialogue at first where Paul speaks his mind.

Finally Chani takes the scenario, by being the subject of the conversation. After uploading the document with the AI, it tells me these last pages are all about Paul, the empire, his decisions, But I believe there's much else going on on a personal level.

I read haphazardly these last pages the last few days. I remember dialogue at first where finally Chani takes the scenario, by being the subject of the conversation.

After uploading the document with the AI, it tells me these last pages are all about Paul, the empire. his decisions...

But I believe there's much else going on on a personal level.

So far: Personal relationships, large spaces painted with a large brush by the author. The main characters' dialogue shape their previous actions (or it sets them under a context)...

This chapter had - no similes - but poetic language describing man-made creations along with ideal situations for mankind.