Holiday?
I’ll be away for about the next five weeks, but then I’ll be back. Don’t fret!
1I know a place / Where the gamer scores are so extreme / Dune, D & D / Where Rand al’Thor still reigns supreme
How come when I search the Dune tag all I see is porn and the ranty posts of some boy who read but clearly did not understand the novel at all?
Come on gals, we are more than James McAvoy gifs!And I love James McAvoy as much as the next Leto fan.
Right you are, friend! I have lamented the same thing.
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3“If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets.” - Dune
Supervisor has a great Twitter account!
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I’ve also installed Danielle E. Suchar’s Chrome extension, Jailbreak the Patriarchy, which makes my Google searches turn out like this.
Awesome.
3Serials, sleep, and judging books by their covers
After finishing my graduating thesis and my presentation at the JCURA Research Fair, I took a little rest—but Dune was still always on the brain!
Since my defence, I’ve been working on revisions of my paper: first, for the final copy submitted to the Department’s permanent file, and second, to prepare for submitting for publication—just to see what happens.
In other news, while at a second-hand bookshop in Vancouver, I stumbled across a whole ream of Dune novels, and was really delighted to look at all the different covers, particularly the way that the covers have changed over the years.
BUT, the most shocking part (to me) of this edition of God Emperor of Dune was the revelation that some of it had first been published in Playboy magazine. Sigh.
And since I’m all about the pictures this post, here’s the cover of the magazine in question:
Tame by today’s standards, I suppose, but I’m still not at all impressed.
* Edited to emphasize how much I loathe Playboy *
* God Emperor was published in 1981. Gloria Steinem’s exposé “I Was A Playboy Bunny” was published in 1963. *
FREE TIME!?
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GPOY?
11I lack the words.
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via scubastank.
See also.
2“ I am tired. I’m morally tired. The melancholy degeneration of the Great Houses has afflicted me at last, perhaps. And we were such strong people once. ”
Frank Herbert, from Dune (via cyanidewand)
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My subconscious is leaking.
On the plus side, though, I feel like I am making fantastic headway with Fredric Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future (more on that in a bit), and I have really appreciated this essay.
Tomorrow, I’ll be holding down a table at the JCURA Research Fair and on Wednesday, I’ll be doing my defence.
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“At dawn, we ride!”
Gummies Dune?
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