obe to hide her dtUidl generation makes a firm conclusion impossible Few gholas can have been prepared as Duncan Idaho was, for a single task most were even less specific than the Duncans produced for the God Emperor Never many in number, they sened throughout the universe as philosophers moralists and administrative functionaries Infrequently, killer-mentals, killer Suk doctors and military leaders were also generated for specific markets There is even evidence that an attempt at a Kwisatz Haderach was included in the Tleilaxu dabbling, and they always did boast that they were capable of producing a ghola to fit any specifications For better or worse the Tleilaxu fleshly art was never well received Gholas were GHOLA 266 reminders of people who had once lived, and their production violated the spirit at least of the Butlenan edicts Gholas were tolerat ed only as solutions born of desperation and even the God Emperor Leto II, usually amoral in his analysis, spoke of the Duty Tleilaxu, reflecting the distrust and fear directed to ward these flesh engineers and their products RS NOTES 'Scytale perhaps the most famous of all Tleilaxu Face Dancers is supposed to have stated that the odd sense of humor of his people consisted of ' always giving our victims a means of escape " In presenting Duncan Idaho 10208 to Paul, the means of escape may have been a linguistic hint, a daring double entendre the Dame by which they introduced the ghola to Paul, "Hayt," immediate ly suggested to the Atreidean emperor the Galach hatt (n from OG hate) intense hostility and aversion usu deriving from fear" But for die Tieilaxu no risk meant no pleasure coincidentally, there i* a Fremen word hayt and the Tleilaxu were betting that the sight of Duncan Idaho would conjure up associations for Paul Atreides not for Paul Muad Dib, who would have realized that Fremen hayt means * wall'-perhaps the wall that sealed Hayt from his Duncan memories a wall which his killing of his master was intended to breach1' Tleilaxu terms have always drawn close inspection because of a mocking habit of giving-almost of flaunting-Stints about their processes and purposes Why, for example, axolotl tanks? Axolotl is the term for the tadpole form of the genus Ambystoma a species of Terran amphibian now found only on Ecaz Thus, Dr A would argue tfatt die tank was so named because of die animal s ability to mature sexually without undergoing meta morphosis if its habitat was dry, but to become a salamander IB pools of water, hence, the waters of the tank give us a different "animal" No, would say Th B the Tleilaxu use die term because these amphibians are able to regenerate lost bodily parts, and perhaps die secret of thai ability is part of the process On the contrary, would say R M C of the fiene Gessent ancestral voices tell us that the term comes from an extinct Terran language Nafauatl, IB which at! means ' water' and xolotl means "spirit,' and therefore it is simply a fancy epithet foi the tank's chemical ability to give life from "the spirit of the water" Happily no such wrangling surrounds the term ghola.