I try to observe impartially and to record objectively, but die echoes of alt those yesterdays begin to cloud my perspective. Only now can I begin to aoderstand what Leto and Ghanirna have lived with-the constant reiteration of those lew parts we feel compelled to play. And the voices in my memory are soft and faitaliar, whUe the voices that they live with bring the strength of separate personalities, How awfiU it must be for them to carry ail of human history within their minds, alive and clamoring for attention 4 Eventually Farad'n gave up his struggle, and the voice of Ghanima ends his shigawtre memoir: Goodbye my love. I will be without my daily anchor BOW. The oneness Ehat I know with Leto ! is the two halves of a single being, bat the oneness that I have known with you is different. With you I could find the Jove of goodness; in [ you I have been able to see outside myself and r through you find truth and joy and fulfillment. You are my love.5 Harq al-Ada died in 10419. At his funeral service, Leto II (who presided over the rite) declared that' 'as he gave so much of history to his posterity, so history will give a posterity to Harq al-Ada".6 It was a fitting, and accurate, epitaph for a man who died without a legal spouse or children, but whose literary "children" would influence the farthest reaches of the Imperi-um for generations. J.A.C. and C.W. NOTES 'Harq al-Ada, Testament of Arrahs (Work-in-Progress, Arrakis Studies Temp Ser 180, Lib. Conf.); The Story of Liet-Kynes (Work-in-Progress, Arrakis Studies Temp. Ser. 109, Lib, Conf) ^ybete Harik, The PnncelTke Playwright (Zimaona' Kinat), pp. 76-77. 3LetoH, Journals, Rakis Ref Cat. 20-A115, Area73. "Ibid. 'Ibid. "Leto H, Journals, Rakis Ref. Cat. 20-M15, Area 80. Further references: Arraku, the Transformation, The Arrakeen Catastrophe (alt title, The Dune Catastrophe), The Book of Leto (a folk-style biography with epigrams); The Butlerian Jihad; The Holy Metamorphosis, House Atreides A Historical Overview, Lectures on Prescience, Leto H (the official Irnpcrium biography of Leto's firs! two hundred years), Leto 11 to his Memory Voices; The Mahdinate, an Analysis, Philosophers for All Times, The Prescient Vision, Notes to My Life; Kiddles of Arrakis, The Story of Liet-Kynes, Testament of Arrakis, The Words of My Father An Account of MuatfDib {reconstructed by Harq al-Ada) CORRINO, PRINCESS R(IGI (10175-10272). Though she was Shaddam IV's youngest daughter, the Princess Rugi Corrino is rarely remembered as part of the royal family. Arkum Valentine, for example, gives her only two paragraphs in Golden Lion in Exile, the standard work of the Padishah's government following Shaddam IV's deposition Aside from hard biographical facts, he does offer some dimension to her character when he writes: She is a slender wisp of a girl, but strikingly beautiful Her waist-length brown hair complements the light-gold of her complexion perfectly.

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