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Alia Atreides |
The Fremen see her as the Earth Figure, a demi-goddess whose special charge is
to protect the tribes through her powers of violence. She is Reverend Mother
to their Reverend Mothers. To pilgrims who seeks her out with demands that she
restore virility or make the barren fruitful, she is a form of antimentat. She
feeds on that proof that the "analytic" has limits. She represents ultimate
tension. She is the virgin-harlot -- witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in
her whims as a coriolis storm. St. Alia of the Knife as taken from The Irulan Report Dune Messiah
I think what a joy it is to be alive, and I wonder if I'll ever leap inward
to the root of this flesh and know myself as one I was. The root is there.
Whether any act of mine can find it, that remains tangled in the future. But
all things a man can do are mine. Any act of mine may do it.
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