t men ser\mg in the ranks of those monsters of perversion His poem 93 "2 evokes ques tions that cannot be answered because they cannot be precisely stated These questions cannot be the contradiction of Kauznet s commission in the Illerdan army (determined by the inflexible faufrcluchc system), because that quandary-what an honest man can do m an evil svstem-was clear to Kauznet even if its answer was not 93 With rank and fame and comfort all the best A hatclKt strikes and hews my nbs of trees Deep sounds knock soft m a bone bound chest Its hidden contents stir lost are its keys There is a question missing on the test, And yet the answer should spring with ease To the bewildered brain I ve wrung and pressed To decipher the hollow guts and shaking knees And I face fate in the game chessed To the last pawn I lose in aged lees Of life, and all my days and nights I quest The missing piece to pay the unknown fees But keys and test and pawn point to a space Gapped m this partial man unfull of grace As tensions increased between Houses Kaastaar and Atreides, Illerdan became the center of contention, and Caladaman agents infiltrated the garrisons there, probing for weaknesses Kauznet, still a junior officer at sixty seemed a likelv target but spies found only the poems he had been secretly writing Nevertheless the poems were copied and forwarded to Intelligence on Caladan for inspection The Bureau found them of no military use and the papers passed from hand to hand as a curiosity until they came to the attention of the young na Baron Leto To say that he found the poems moving and memorable is an understatement, and, per haps informally at first he began gathenng the copies of Kauznet s work When the Illerdan campaign was launched, Leto used his influence to order Kauznet taken alive, if possible but Kauznet gathered IMPERIAL POETRY 341 IMPERIAL POETRY a remnant of Kaastaanans around him, went into the hills, and waged a guerrilla war Leto's first suspicion that Kauznet had survived came from the style of dnti-Caladaman ballads emanating from the resistance Without native support, the resistance was hopeless, and was soon rooted out Leto never saw Kauznet alive For almost 5000 years, scholars have speculated on the identity of the L A , who saw to it that Kauznet s artistry did not die with him With the translation of the records in M Section of the Rakis Finds, we now know die answer-Leto Atreides The last Cornno Court Poet was Imclda Vizhyarad (10182-10239), who followed Shaddam IV into exile on Salusa Secundus Her later work shows a growing obsession with inescapable destiny, most frequently in connection with Shaddam and his companion, Count Hasimir Fennng In his youth, Fennng loved the sea he was a fine amateur sailor (and a surpassingly skiHful athlete in many pursuits), and was nicknamed "Windmaster " The Vizhyarad poem that follows3 takes its name from Fennng and pictures him in the later years after die dea