ne who could draw upon racial memory As the "new man," Hayt also dared and understood far more than his progenitor For example, his rnentat training recognized Aim's erotic stirrings and his new initiative dared respond, m small ways at first, to her desires This candor and pursuit of his own life is also apparent in Hayt's own words, taken from The Ghola Speaks" I think what a joy it is to be alive, and I wonder if I'll ever leap inward to the root of this flesh and know myself as I once was The root is there Whettier any act of mine can find it, that remains tangled in the future But all tilings a man can do are mine Any act of mine may do it Hayt derived his greatest pleasure from seeing the reflection of Duncan Idaho m fee reactions of others and from his own drive to both create and discover himself Hayt gamed his special distinction from pursuing his own interests, not the Atreides' It is unlikely that a new, inexperienced ghola of Duncan Idaho could have resisted the TTetlaxa's conditioning and power words A Hayt without the process of becoming would have phantly earned the Tleriaxu offer of a ghola of the dead Chani from the dwarf Bijaz to the grieving Paul, and would have struck Paul down m his moment of decision Hayt was stall "innocence under siege," as Alia saw bun in her trance His confession of the Bene Tleilaxu compulsion to Paul illustrated his threatened innocence, but it also demonstrated his horror at being controlled and me strength of his determination While Psul-as-orecle saw a portion of Duncan in Hayt and knew that there would be no violence from the ghola, even when Paul spoke the compulsion trigger, "She [Chani] is gone " this moment marked Hayt s partial return to his past as Duncan Idaho As Paul Atreides indicated in his memoirs, Hayt called the emperor "young master," the beginning of the restoration that was completed when Hayt confronted his compulsion to kill The person who emerged from this trauma was a new being As quickly as Hayt-Duncan responded to Paul's entreaty in Atreides' battle language to sla> Bijaz and as much as his swiftness echoed the unquestioning loyal ty of Duncan Idaho, the new Duncan was unanticipated by his Tleilaxu creators and the Atreides He was still loval and retained many of Idaho s characteristics, such as his ability to charm women Yet Ihe man who accompanied the truly blind Paul Atreides on the beginning of his walk into the desert was a mutated and hybrid consciousness His marriage to Aha, a mark of the Duncan tradition of service, further estranged him from his pasts as Ha>t and Duncan Idaho An excellent mirror of this new being is "The Ghola's Hymn " a eulogy (reprinted m Overby's Poems of Antiquity) written for Paul Atreides by the awakened ghola after Paul had gone off into the desert to be slam by Shai-Hulud A haiku, traditionally attributed to the transfigured Hayt provides further perceptions of a Duncan who empathized with Paul rather than revered him Young Master Usul God who walks the Golden Path, My comrade in doubts Here Paul became both a god and a man for Hayt Written after Paul's death walk but before the appearance of The Preacher in Arrakeen, it shows the continued growth of understanding after the grief had lessened, and Duncan'i.