the decisiveness and ethi cal agibty that Paul needed to survive, prosper, and control his jihad would become repugnant to him Second Hayt was to use the renowned Dtincan attractiveness to women to seduce Aha Aha may have held within her memory the sexual activities of numerous women before her, but her flesh was innocent at this tune Moreover, Hayt was able to appeal to Alia's intellect through his mental training As Stiigar remarked when he and Paul came upon the naked Aha duel- ing the target dummy to eleven lights she had to have a mate The conspirators were either very lucky or very intelligent to pres ent Hayt to Alia at her most physically vulnerable time However, the conspirators and the Bene Tleilax technicians had failed to anticipate the unplumbed depths of Duncaa Idaho Certainly the singularity of purpose of Idaho s life encouraged superficial conclusions Yet from the very beginning Duacan made-Hayt violated expectations Had the Bene Gessent been less smug and the Bene Tleilax more sensitive the} would have recognized the dangers Hayt s loneliness when he emerged from the axolod tank which the Bene Tleilax told him was a sickness persisted and should have warned them that even this chemically reproduced flesh would need the same affec tions and loyalty that had marked the ongi nal Idaho In addition Hayt manifested be havior atypical of Idaho These deivations were attributed to the new mental and Zensunm training, rather than perceived as the unexpected combination of the new and the old Almost without fail Hayt was Duncan when he was not expected to be and none of his training and conditioning produced the antici patcd results He was something new Hayt s lack of a past freed him from the extreme loyalty to the Atreides even though his dispositions drew him back to them For the first time, a Duncan Idaho could pursue himself and this liberation allowed for considerable, intensive self reflection and self-development Most accurately, then, this new freedom of self combined with genetic memories of his past and his Zensunm and mental training made Hayt and his later awakened self an evolution of Duncan Idaho Since, after Hayt, the Bene Tleilax used dire con frontation lo restore Ihe memories of the numerous Duncans he was the only one of the restorations to have this opportunity for personal growth An important element in Hayt s pursuit of himself was a Zensunm belief he often repeated 'Every man carries his own past with him * Hayt perceived his own genetic memories from a new perspective that stressed his unique person-ness While he may have been moved to give water to the dead by IDAHO DUNCANHAYT 321 IDAHO DUNCANHAYT the vital memory of a friend's arm on his shoulders, he was also able to mold himself as a person, an opportunity unavailable to Idaho and a power unanticipated by Hayt's creators Thus, Aha perceived Hayt as the most complex creature she had ever seen, a profound statement from someo