" Prescience, in other words, was for Muad'Dib not the vision of the future normally associated with it, but the power to see how die future was created Finally, concerning the death or non-death of Paul Muad'Dib much has been and can sail be written He managed to escape death at the hands of a stoneburner explosion only to be blinded by the flash of light associated with it Immediately after die birth of his twin children, Lcto II and Ghanima, and the consequent death of his beloved Bremen concubine, Cham Liet-Kynes, Paul Muad'Dib walked into the desert as Piemen culture dictated The blind were more than a burden to a Fremen sietch, they were looked upon as anathema, others within a sietch did not even want the water that could have been recovered from the dead bodies Many historians see this final act of Paul Muad'Dib s as further evidence of his Fremen birth and the fictional nature of his story They reason that if he were reaUy of the House Atreides he would have not exiled himself but simply have regained his sight by using Tleilaxu e>es Once again this kind of reasoning illustrates how sthulars single mmdedly devoted to proving their thesis will ignore all reason in their search for so-called truth Paul Muad Dib was Fremen He could not have been other than Fremen and still have created the Fedaykin But he was Fremen not by birth but by example He took the world view of the Fremen to its ultimate extreme and m the end accepted his blindness as 'the way things are ' To have done less would have been to expose himself as simply "playing" at being a Fremen But it is doubtful that he ever played at anything First, the Fremen would have been sure to detect acting, and, second, what is actually known of his life would not have been so consistent in so many different sources Muad'Dib took the only course open to a Fremen There is one final issue that needs to be addressed concerning the life of Paul Atreides the old man who showed up years after Muad'Dib's walk into the desert and whom many people thought was Paul It should first be pointed out that both Irulan and Leto II did believe that this prophet' was Muad Dib, but even if he were not it is irresponsible to cast out all of the information on his life as fabulous simply because years after his death a madman claims to be Muad'Dib Indeed, over the thousands of years that followed 1m death many madmen have made just such a claim As has been earlier stated, it was exactly these claims that inspired Archbishop Spil to commission Neja N Nam Knb's report All such claims however, merely testify to the enduring pow er of Muad'Dib's fame They do not have anything to do with whether or not the stones are true It is time to put the whole issue of Paul Atreides Muad'Dib the Kwisatz Haderach to rest There was such a man, born of House Atreides, who had remarkable power, so remarkable that through hit> acts, and those of his son, Leto II the hi stones of all the worlds were forever changed Bo