Though he knew that Feyd-Rautha's training had included sensitivity to a code wont that would render him momentarily weak, Paul did not use the word, even when he saw dial Feyd-Rautha intended to kill him with a poisoned needle. In the coarse of the duel, Paul took advantage of the projecting needle, immobilized Feyd-Rautha against the floor, and drove home the point of his own blade through Feyd-Rautha's jaw and into bis brain. At the age of nineteen, Feyd-Rautha died, as ignobly as he had lived. (In addition to the references below, insight into the personality of Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen may be obtained from a reading of Harq al-Harba's play Shaddam IV, in which Feyd-Rautha is a major character. Though it is a work of fiction, the play offers what many consider to be valid historical and psychological revelations concerning the life and personality of a badly used and abused young man.) L.L. i; HAffKONNEN,. VlvUMMIR; RABBAN, GLOSSU; Ktevmz D. Kiiaar, Fear Mj Power, Respect My Name: Tea Thousand Years efHarkonnms (Oicdi Prime. Trammel); Marya Voo Wiikhciscr. House Harkonneit, tr. Arazrii Pexb, Studies in Atreictean History 76 (Paseo: Institute of Galacto-Fremen Culture). HARKONNEN, (H1NSENG. (10079-10130). Siridar-Baron of Giedi Prime, father of Vladimir Harkonnen. The most colorful account of this unusual man is given in the diaries of Sil, Reeve Perrin, in which that mysterious poetic wanderer gives his observations of several Great Houses. In the second volume, Pearh Before Swine, he tells of his first visit to the Harkonnen court: Gunseng, I saw at once, was not the Harkonnen goon of which his house had been so productive. He looked out of place there-slight, fair, with large watery eyes. But the old bastard Granuk, his father, had to make the best of it; he had killed every son but Gunseng to better his chances of dying quielly in bed. That happy event could not be far distant, because Granuk had vices in number to match his jowls. I never smelled so foul a moral stench as that of his casde. Where Gunseng-a flower among the weeds-came from, only the Bcne Gesserit knows. And the lad is a musician! With nothing else to do, he studied the baliset and corpedal in his rooms while the danse-macabre went on downstairs. He knew what was going on, though, and looked like he had learned to survive. When the blood stopped flowing and he became Baron Harkonnen, he vowed to improve the house. Poor fool! Nothing short of a stonebumer would improve House Harkonnen. I was thankful just to get away before some ignorant sycophant with martial inclinations killed me. The "blood flowing" Sil mentions refers to Granuk's circulation, not to carnage following his death. The transition was smooth. Granuk succumbed to a nervous disease that reduced him to a skeleton, and barricaded himself in chambers behind protection only a tyrant would find inadequate. Gunseng, then twenty-three, seemed incapable of controlling the rowdy house.