Here is the passage Bauf takes from ACT III, Scene ii of Carthage, lines 235-47: As the example shows, Bauf finds the name "Farad'n Cotrino" in the passage, and adds: "One could scarcely fail to note-indeed it must seize the most casual observer-thai not only has the name been spelt out, but that three words are used twice: and that when those words are extracted from the cipher (as these hundreds of years past their author had intended that they be) they form the message 'recognize-not-our.' We cannot choose but be impressed with the clarity and force with which al-Ada speaks to us over the centuries, telling us that we will recognize that these plays are not the work of the besotted salesman" (p. 248). The Plowing Cipher is no cipher at all; with enough lines, any name can be extracted. To demonstrate, reconsider the passage. AL-HARBA QUESTION AL HARBA QUESTION Using the same method, we discover the message "Fremen cielagos too," showing that Farad'n had help from the small bats native to Arrakis HAS1M1R FbNRING Supporters of Hasimir Fenring as the hidden author accept the "loss of status ' argument of the al-Adans, but add another of their own They state that the climate of Leto II's reign made the voicing of unorthodox political opinion very risky Since many of the plays were histories, their author seeded the protection of secrecy In their version, Fennng did not die in 10225, but went underground His death was an nounced to forestall inquiries, but he lived for another eighty eight years, writing plays under the name "Harq al-Harba" When Fennng actually died in 10313, his fictitious cover identity was fictitiously moved to fides, there to die a fictitious death four years later There is some truth to the observation about the danger of expressing an unpopular opinion The best known example of that danger is, of course the burning of the nine historians, but that event occurred over two thousand years later, m 12335 Until the records of criminal proceedings of die early years of Leto's reign are uncovered, we will not know for certain if the murder of the historians represented a bloody aberration or part of a pattern throughout his occupancy of the throne According to J T Duub's Half-a-Dozen Harbas, Fennng headed a group which wrote the plays collectively with the failed Kwisatz Haderach as their head Duufa relies heavily on the reminiscences of Shishkali, one of Leto's early chamberlains, about a conversation with the emperor shortly after a rebellion led by al-Ataud in UK early years of Leto's.