mily But when Wanna was taken from him he became desperate and confused Finally his love for Wanna and his love for his Duke moved him in opposite contradicto ry directions He acted not as a foo! not as a madman but as a lover who could hope to save only one of the two people he loved most He hoped to save Wanna perhaps believing that no matter what he did he could not save Duke Leto from the superior forces of the Harkonnens We do know that his love led him to give his life helping Lady Jessica and Paul escape the Harkonnen trap Whatever his true motives and aUions without Yueh s crucial role there would have been no Paul Muad Dib no fall of the Comno dynasty, no nse of the Fremen, no liberation of Arrakis nor even the great God Emperor Leto II and the Scattering in which human kind was released from its unitary destiny Out of a love misguided Yueh set in motion those events that ultimately led us all through the desert of the ancient feudal rivalries into the long peace and Golden Path of the Atreides Impenum PF NOTES 'Th Eisor Zhurcia The Great Masquerade Yueh and the Atreides (10200 ipt Lib Conf Temporary Series 582) 2Pubhshed under its alternate title Analysis 508 ZENSUNNI CULTURE The Arrakeen Crisis trans Doorsh Suuwaa, Arrakis Studies 20 (Grumman United Worlds) 3Quoted in Naib Guaddafs Judgment on Arra keen Rakis Ref Cat 2Q-Z182 4See Chapter 2 of his The Atreides Impenum Lib Conf Temporary Series 70 5Quizarate Proclamation 10 15 102iO, found in Rakis Ref Cat 99 T106 The bill cited bears a partially obliterated Guild passage number " /CAL 44281" the three dashes mark the position of the abbreviation for point of origin Obviously, if that abbreviation had been "GIF" for Giedi Prime, one thesis is supported, if it had been "TLE for Tleilax, the otter gains authority 'This fragmentary Bill of Passage is a historian s headache raising more problems than it settles If it bad originally read ' and one female of the Bene Gessent,'' then it was redundant there were no male Bene Gessents If it had read "and one female of the Bene Tluilax," and that female was a face dancer, then the face dancer was already in disguise-a wearying exercise-when he had no reason to be remember the Guild motto, "Anything anytime, anyplace ' The Spac ing Guild was bound by Convention tradition and self interest to impose no restrictions whatso ever on its consigned cargo 7The original of the report has disappeared but Leto's transcription may be found in his Journal Rakis Ref Cat 2 A213 As a Mentat Piter de Vnes would have been familiar with methods of disrupting members of his own Order, and may have reasoned that they might work on Yueh 8Ritdh al Jofar Nisn Atreides, 'Factors in the Yueh Betrayal ' Studies in Imperial History OS 146 449 70 'Not, of course, that Nayla s Journal (Rakis Ret Cat 2 A816) makes any reference to Yueh but the divided loyalties of the two share many features, and the comparison can be instructive ZENSUNNI WANDERERS, Cultural Traditions.

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