to the mindless Shai-Hulud a tendency he had been manifesting to an increasing degree A second noteworthy experience of Duncan-the-Last was his disgust with the Museum Fremen at Tuono Village A third was his unnerving meeting with Duncan-13663's children and wife in Goygoa a place that by its original name, Jacurutu, was already emotionally charged for him Both of these moments prompted him to reflect on the failures of the past gholas and to raise the curiosity that helped him avoid the dangerous aspects of the usual Duncan "Since Syndrome " These encounters and others contributed to his successes in areas where other Duacans had failed Just as he avoided the "Since Syndrome, * he also never fell victim to empty sensuality or to tile physical and psychological emasculation that his unexpected physical limitations might have caused Leto Q was astonished to find a new characteristic in this last Duncan the ability to look beyond what he thought he knew Through this, he began to understand that knowledge was constructed of more than particulars and to learn the value of span nungsbogen (the self imposed delay between desire and possession) as a valid substitute for sudden action In his alteration trom what thirty-five hun dred years of experience had fed Leto H to expect of the "father' of modem civilization much is owed to Duncan die Last s mterac tion with Siona Atreidcs Like two powerful fighting cocks, they had circled each other, both desiring and fearing the nexus of their inevitable union Each resisted the other through their common bitterness toward and rebellion against the God Emperor They were tempered by their antagonism and by the pugnacity of their refusal to breed Duncan learned to accept Siona s physical superiority as he struggled with the Tleilaxu compulsion to reject her She gained respect for Duncan's professionalism and evolving mentality and allowed herself to accept his successful plan for the final destruction of Leto fl It was through her leadership insight and rebellion that Duncan-13724, like Duncan-10208, went in search of another Atreides to serve instead of the God Emperor Significantly, what he found was an idea the first time a Duncan had ever found anything other than a living Duke Together Duncan the Last and Siona became convinced that if there had to be a God Emperor, it should not be Leto II They were, of course, wrong but that was sigmfi cant in contrast to their resulting actions Thus, as Duncan the Last rose from his frus trated desire for Hwi Noree and as he and Siona curled each other, he climbed the mne-hundred meter wall to the Royal Road and engineered die assassination of an emper or and his consort His pmionless climb mirrored his growing understanding that unlike Siona and himself Leto II was no longer a true Atreides like die long dead Alia he had become an alien within the family Duncan realized this first when he considered Leto II s heinous, self ish crime of resurrecting him and hi