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already quite convinced that this thing should've been made into a trippy sci-fi epic by some director from the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War era. it just has that vibe.

- "Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

already sensing a björk-ish kind of weirdness and an influence of edged 60s radical politics that aren't really that present in the sparse, futuro-functionalist (and brutalist) epicness of villenuevue's "dune" duology. prose is surprisingly direct.