Dr Wellington Yueh s treason Rath er we should consider what colossal emo trons were required to enable Idaho to over come his ingrained, almost genetically incul cated, ioyalty to any Atreides And yet just as some revisionist historians have been able to explain even Yueh s triumph over his pyretic conscience by adducing the incalculable passion of his love for his beloved Wanna so we should now examine Leto's treason- not Duncan-13724's-to the Atreidean way, his treason to his grandfather Leto I, the Red Duke to his father Paul Muad Dib and to himself Leto then was false to himself and to the ancient Atreides line and its sense of truth honor, and devotion It is imperative to re member that he was but an adolescent when he assumed both the throne and the sand-worm skin He never had the opportunity to grow up, to mature He had never enjoyed a normal life He was forced to overcome temptation, test after test Struggles for his very life were for him simple rites of passage even before he was a teenager And as an early teen, he exhibited all of the outlandish, ridiculous activity we have associated with both adolescence and adolescents for centuries In fact, one psychologist, Professor Istrafan Koye of the University of Ix, has maintained quite cogently in his monumental The Last of rfie God Emperors (subtitled There But For ATREIDES LETOII 68 ATREIDES LETO II the Grace of God Goes God, 3 vol , Salusa Secundus Karshak) that the key to Leto's character is quite simply that he was an adolescent for the entirety of his 3,500-year reign and that if one wants to understand "His Annehdity" (the phrase is Koye's) one must approach him as one might approach any other juveiuie delinquent, with birch rod firmly in hand How else can we understand Leto's repeated temper tantrums over the fact that his Duncans might disagree with him on even trivial matters or that his major domos might dare to suggest that 'His Ouroborosity" might occasionally have feet (or is the proper word "segments'"*) of clay Who but a classic "brat kid" could be so unaware of the discrepancy in his own life between appearance and reahty, between shadow and substance1* We know, for example, from his last dictate! messages recorded shortly before his demise, that he had developed a mad-some would call it "adolescent" -passion for the "incomparable" Hwi Noree White he admitted that sexual union with her was impossible beause his wormself had subsumed his human gemtalia many centuries earlier, he nonetheless mooned over her like a teenage boy in beat To be sure he had his ancestral memories of rampant sexuality to sustain him, he said again and again and again and again, until an Idaho or a Moneo, even a blindly adoring Nayla, might not wonder if he were protesting a bit 100 much In fact Koye cogently argued thai if memory of sexuality could sustain Lcto, why did he not apply the same principle to food and refuse to eat Surely if memories of ancestral licentiousness co