reign As> Dunb notes, the play Shaddam IV, with its famous deposition scene, was performed in Arrakeen on the morning of the rebellion to stir the populace to revolutionary fervor Until then, al-Ataud had been Chief of Customs for Arrakis, a post awarded him by Leto Duub describes the conversation The Emperor opened with a pensive remark, "Dear Shishkah' I am Shaddam IV, do you not know that''" To which the Chamberlain replied, "Such a wicked imagination was determined and attempted by a most ungrateful man, the most adorned creature that your Majesty ever made ' He might have meant al Ataud but the Emperor in his reply seems to have meant "al Harba' (Fennng), by saying darkly ' He that will forget God will also forget his benefactors, this tragedy was plaved openly forty times Al Ataud, of course had nothing to do with those forty productions Fennng came close here to losing his life and only the Emperor's remembrance of Fennng sparing the life of Leto s father Paul Atreides saved the Count from imprisonment or worse {Pp 80-81) Now, Duub cannot have it both ways either Fennng s pseudonym is a secret to protect him from Leto (pp 35-47), or it is no secret and Leto's knowledge protects Fennng dur ing political tight spots (the passage quoted) If the secret is not intended to protect Fennng from Leto (as Duub has already claimed), who does it protect him from"? This unap predated contradiction is typical of Duub's reasoning LETO II In 10710 A J Knlwan s book The Man Who Wap al Harba made the claim that the al-Harban plays were wntten by Leto H, a theory that has surpassed the others in populanty and permanence Essen tially it follows them in demeaning al-Harba, coming down especially heavily on the pur ported intimate political knowledge of the plays, and claiming that only one who had, so to speak, firsthand knowledge of the events portrayed could have been the author Knlwan returns to the play Carthage not for cryptograms but rather for lines that she says are meaningful only if the writer was Leto II She argues The God-Emperor must frequently think of him self as unique, entirely separate from humanity essentially an alien as he laments in Thy expected alien am I" (III i, 1) and 'Why am I singled out Ihen/For this alien role- ' (130-31) With the memories of his ancestors ever within he says, "This day, an alien awoke in me' (III n, 5), telling us of his first spice awareness Later die experience became u>rnmonpl