(HI i, 47), or again, We ve seen it all before you know /Carthage, Assyria (137 38) Twice in the same scene he weeps over the burden of his long memories I have my distant moods though When jour history collapses AL-HARBA QUESTION 10 AL-HARBA QUESTION And I forget- Not the day- Not the year- But the age* Which eon is this' (HI u 248-54) And again, I have to remember who I am And when It's awfully easy to mix up two thousand years, Just one big kaleidoscopic blur, Confuses me all to hell' (III, n, 341-45) Could any mortal have written those lines'' (pp 217 18) If that question is not just rhetorical, the answer must be, "Yes, one could " Whether or not Leto II was Harq al-Harba, Leto was surely not the writer of every history ever penned, and what attitude comes more naturally to the historian than the feeling of watching the past? Fanciful theories are plentiful no one has yet claimed that Harq al-Harba was a reincarnation of someone who lived in antiquity, yet the theory of metempsychosis, as old as mankind, can explain every reference anywhere to interior "voices* as well as every, instance of an accurate historical work But we can go further, actually strengthening Ktilwan's case for her The second scene that she quotes from, in, 11, contains these lines Make way for a better instructor- Assur nasir-aplt, cruelest of the cruel, Whose reign began with patricide (11 125-27) Among the materials discovered in the Rakis Hoard were the originals of The Stolen Journals In one (Rafas Ref Cat 31-A125) we read this "Our ancestor, Assur-nasir apli, who was known as the cruelest of the cruel, seized the throne by slaying his own father and starting the reiga of the sword " And we can go even further still another crystal records the gist of a conversation with one Malky, an baan ambassador Leto had asked Malky if he knew the words Taqmyya or ketman The ambassador did not know the first, but, fluent in Fremen.