Friday, March 7, 2008

Muad'Dib?



Barry or Hillary?

Kwisatz Haderach or Bene Gesserit?



You be the judge.

(With acknowledgments to cynical dystopian Lawrence Person.)


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In other news, check out Louis Bayard's amusing interoffice memo from the in-house counsel at Erewhon Publishing, "Attention, all you memoir fabulists," suggesting some liability-avoiding corrections to well-known autobiographical works, e.g.:

'"Speak, Memory" by Vladimir Nabokov

'The author loses his first butterfly at Vyra, Russia, finds it again 40 years later in Colorado. Average life span for a butterfly is 20 to 40 days. Suggest changing "butterfly" to "giant tortoise."'

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