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第一卷 沙丘(01)

【注①:比·吉斯特:一所古老的学校,主要对女孩进行心智和体能训练,使她们为基因控制、人种筛选服务。经过训练的妇女被称为比·吉斯特人,具有洞察未来、控制别人行为等特殊能力。】


【注②:九弦巴喱斯:一种特制的弹奏乐器。】


【注③:卡瓦兹。赫德那奇:又称科维扎基·哈得那奇,是比·吉斯特经过数代人努力,通过严格基因筛选而将创造出的伟人。他将具有超自然的力量,会率领沙漠中的弗雷曼人战胜哈可宁人和皇帝的军队,并最终成为统治帝国的领袖。】


【注④:门泰特:受过专门训练、具有特殊技能的人。特别擅长逻辑分析、组织计划和博杀格斗。】

Book One DUNE

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows.

To begin your study of the life of Muad'Dib, then, take care that you first place him in his time: born in the 57th year of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV.

And take the most special care that you locate Muad'Dib in his place: the planet Arrakis.

Do not be deceived by the fact that he was bom on Caladan and lived his first fifteen years there.

Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place. -from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan.

IN THE week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.

It was a warm night at Castle Caladan, and the ancient pile of stone that had served the Atreides family as home for twenty-six generations bore that cooled-sweat feeling it acquired before a change in the weather.

The old woman was let in by the side door down the vaulted passage by Paul's room and she was allowed a moment to peer in at him where he lay in his bed.

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