the traditional government sanctioned roles The new cult espoused scholarship, mdepen- ATREIDES CORRINO IRULAN 105 ATREIDES CORRINO IRULAN dence of viewpoint the virtues of joy equanimity and compassion-and remained an anomaly in the Impenum IRULAN AS HISTORIAN Now that the Raki& Finds have restored her body of work we can appreciate Inilan s enormous literary output All the works listed below have been identified and are numbered in the Rakis Reference Catalog Many have been published in the Library Confraternity s Temporary Senes and nuiny others have been licensed to commercial presses Since the number of these works in pnnt increases almost from day to day the interested readers should check the title of the desired book against the latest Confraternity Update available at any member library system Analyses The Dunebuk of Irulan con sidered by some to be her most scholarly work an appraisal of and prognosis for the planet The Chakobsa Way largely derived from conversations with Ghamma The Irulan Report containing the much quoted chapter St Aha of the Knife Analysis The Arrakeen Crisis a revision and updating of The Dunebuk Private Reflections of Muatf Dib mainly derived from Cham s reports The Wisdom of MuafTDib from Irulan s pro found respect for Paul Muad Dib The Reli gious Issues an investigation of the impor tance of religion fox the populace and an attempt to appraise without condemnation the problems of the Messiah role and Lecture to the Arrakeen War College her latest work of analysis a speech prepared to respond to the college t" recognition of her work in founding the national library Biography These titles reveal Inilan s preferences because with reservations only about Count Fennng and Alia she generally admired her biographical subjects The titles are self-explanatory Cham Daughter ofUet A Child s History of Muad Dib Count Fennng APnfilt The Humanity of MttadDib In My Father's House (somewhat autobio graphical) The Lion Throne (Leto Paul and LetoH) sMMuatfDib the Man which has a preface by Sdlgar Collections At times Irulan was forced to proceed somewhat as a folklorisi record ing the knowledge of the people Some of the maxims paragraphs and chapters in these collections she was able to attach names to others are anonymous Some are derived from court records and other inscriptions made by the official scribe of the Impenum Book of Judgment court proceedings made public only with special consent of the emperor Collected Legends of Arrakis folklore Collected Mayings of Muad Dib some authenticated and some not Conversations with Wuad Dib derived from dianes and records of t>everal perhonb The Dunebook an annual encyclopedia The Dune Gospels compiled by religious leaders Muad Dib Conversations as recorded by fifteen ama teur scribes Muad Dib to His Fedayhn reh able official records Palimbasha actual lee tures given by Paul Muad Dib at Sietch Tabr The Preacher at Arrakeen written by the priests m the public square Proverbs of Muad Dib folklore collection Words of Muad Dib a collection of Paul s public utterances Edited Texts The following titles are mainly self-explanatory but many later schol ars of Irulan s work held the opinion that her finest work was that of ed tor Alia s Com mentary Ancient Fremen Sayings The Em peror Paul Muad Dib (compiled with a chap ter by each of twelve other historians) The Hayt Chronicle Muad Dib The Ninety Nine Wonders of the Universe The Stilgar Chroni cle The Stilgar Commentary Stilgar s Re port to the landsraad A Time of Reflection by Paul Muad D b Words of the Mental (Duncan Idaho 10208) Another work The Commentaries was in two parts the first by Alia and the second by Farad n and edited by Irulan Fine Writing Irulan s creative work in eludes Muad Dib an Island of Selfdom an elegy for Paul and one of the finest elegies ever written in both Atreidean Galach and Bremen Ormthopera which Irulan intended to read Ormth opera a drama and Shadows of Dune a collection of Irulan s poetr> History Irulan s histories as distinguished from her biographies reveal her fine percep tions of causes and her ability to generalize with clarity from an extensive fund of details The first of these works remained the most popular Arrakis Awakening the development of Dune from before Liet Kynes to the acces sion of Leto II History of Muad Dib wnt AXOLOTL TANK 106 AXOLOTL TANK ten so objectively a reader can overlook Irulan's close personal association with Paul (Literary scholars agree that these works provided Harq al Harba with much of his source material) Library Holdings Irulan -used her spe cial access to and knowledge of the Salusa Secundus royal library to enhance the collec lions on Arrakis She copied an index of the royal holdings and made the index available to Arrakeen scholars and arranged an inter library request system Also, she expanded the collection of voice tapes, including many from the Bene Gessent archives on Wallach IX She collected from several sources in the Impenuin whatever reference works she con sidered valuable and contributed her own personal copies for the public good The Library Holdings also include many small pamphlets and one-page manuscripts of important persons as well as various folk materials of uncertain classification-popular culture, Fremen songs, journals, epitaphs, ntuals, letters, etc , of which one valuable item is The Habbanya Lament This poem was a favorite of the Lady Jessica because of its celebration of Catadan, where she lived with her beloved Duke GWE AXOLOTL TANK.