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Things people don't get about DUNE

Things people don't get about DUNE

Frank was f***in with us

Damien Walter
Feb 26, 2024
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There's something kinda perverse about Dune

And I don't mean the rubber suits and giant worms

Although Freud would have a field day

But Frank Herbert spent decades writing about characters he thought were monstrous, and a future he intended as a nightmare warning against mystification and prophecy

Then Frank spent years meeting fans who took a whole other m…

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