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Dune · 1965
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Disgust can reveal the values and fears that a polished self-description conceals. Placing the question in an imperial historian’s text also invites scrutiny of the people who define a hero’s reputation.
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This question appears as an Irulan epigraph from the Manual of Muad’Dib in Book Two of Dune. It belongs to the novel’s imagined writings about Paul, rather than to a witnessed conversation. The card follows the wording shared by Goodreads and Book Riot; another quotation source reverses “are you” to “you are.”
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- Book Two epigraph, from the Manual of Muad'Dib — reference 1Book Two epigraph, from the Manual of Muad'Dib; selected line and sceneReference checked
- Book Two epigraph, from the Manual of Muad'Dib — reference 2Book Two epigraph, from the Manual of Muad'Dib; selected line and sceneReference checked
- Book Two epigraph, from the Manual of Muad'Dib — reference 3Book Two epigraph, from the Manual of Muad'Dib; selected line and sceneReference checked
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