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Muad’Dib’s Imperial reign generated more historians than any other era in human history. Most of them argued a particular viewpoint, jealous and sectarian, but it says something about the peculiar impact of this man that he aroused such passions on so many diverse worlds.
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This paragraph questions the neutrality of the histories we read from the outset. Encyclopedic knowledge must also be read in light of where its narrator stands.
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Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah · Opening text
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