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发帖数: 82482 | 1 Qwghlmian是名列第八的geekiest constructed language:
J.R.R. Tolkien flipped readers’ wigs with his penchant for inventing new
languages, but since then it has become almost de rigueur for fiction
writers and moviemakers to include a constructed language (conlang) when
crafting a new universe. Here are some of the best:
10. Esperanto
Invented in 1887, this real-world language is sometimes employed in movies
to suggest a future language of humanity. Science fiction flick Gattaca and
cult fave Red Dwarf e... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 278 | 2 After the Fremen, all Planetologists see life as expressions
of energy and look for the overriding relationships. In
small pieces, bits and parcels which grow into general
understanding, the Fremen racial wisdom is translated into a
new certainty. The thing Fremen have as a people, any people
can have. They need but develop a sense for energy
relationships. They need but observe that energy soaks up
the patterns of things and builds with those patterns.
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发帖数: 278 | 3 Appendix II: The Religion of Dune
Before the coming of Muad'Dib, the Fremen of Arrakis
practiced a religion whose roots in the Maometh Saari are
there for any scholar to see. Many have traced the extensive
borrowings from other religions. The most common example is
the Hymn to Water, a direct copy from the Orange Catholic
Liturgical Manual, calling for rain clouds which Arrakis had
never seen. But there are more profound points of accord
between the Kitab al-Ibar of the Fremen and the teachi |
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发帖数: 31 | 4 ABA: loose robe worn by Fremen women; usually black.
ACH: left turn: a worm-steersman's call.
ADAB: the demanding memory that comes upon you of itself.
AKARSO: a plant native to Sikun (of 70 Ophiuchi A) characterized by almost
oblong leaves. Its green and white stripes indicate the constant multiple
condition of
parallel active and dormant chlorophyll regions.
ALAM AL-MITHAL: the mystical world of similitudes where all physical
limitations are removed.
AL-LAT: mankind's original sun; by usuage: |
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发帖数: 31 | 5 Appendix II. The Religion of Dune
Before the coming of Muad'Dib, the Fremen of Arrakis
practiced a religion whose roots in the Maometh Saari are there for
any scholar to see. Many have traced the extensive borrowings from
other religions. The most common example is the Hymn to Water, a
direct copy from the Orange Catholic Liturgical Manual, calling for
rain clouds which Arrakis had never seen. But there are more
profound points of accord between the Kitab al-lbar |
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发帖数: 278 | 6 O Seas of Caladan,
O people of Duke Leto--
Citadel of Leto fallen,
Fallen forever . . .
-from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
Paul felt that all his past, every experience before
this night, had become sand curling in an hourglass. He sat
near his mother hugging his knees within a small fabric and
plastic hutment--a stilltent--that had come, like the Fremen
clothing they now wore, from the pack left in the 'thopter.
There was no doubt in Paul's mind who had put the
Fremkit the |
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发帖数: 278 | 7 This Fremen religious adaptation, then, is the source of
what we now recognize as "The Pillars of the Universe,"
whose Qizara Tafwid are among us all with signs and proofs
and prophecy. They bring us the Arrakeen mystical fusion
whose profound beauty is typified by the stirring music
built on the old forms, but stamped with the new awakening.
Who has not heard and been deeply moved by "The Old Man's
Hymn"?
I drove my feet through a desert
Whose mirage fluttered like a host.
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发帖数: 278 | 8 The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called
"spannungsbogen"--which is the self-imposed delay between
desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that
thing.
-from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
They approached Cave of the Ridges at dawnbreak, moving
through a split in the basin wall so narrow they had to turn
sideways to negotiate it. Jessica saw Stilgar detach guards
in the thin dawnlight, saw them for a moment as they began
their scrambling cli |
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发帖数: 278 | 9 And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the
universe with the wheel poised to spin.
-from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan
"Will you look at that thing!" Stilgar whispered.
Paul lay beside him in a slit of rock high on the Shield
Wall rim, eye fixed to the collector of a Fremen telescope.
The oil lens was focused on a starship lighter exposed by
dawn in the basin below them. The tall eastern face of the
ship glistened in the flat light of the sun, but the shadow
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发帖数: 278 | 10 Terminology of the Imperium
In studying the Imperium, Arrakis, and the whole culture
which produced Muad'Dib, many unfamiliar terms occur. To
increase understanding is a laudable goal, hence the
definitions and explanations given below.
ABA: loose robe worn by Fremen women; usually black.
ACH: left turn: a worm-steersman's call.
ADAB: the demanding memory that comes upon you of itself.
AKARSO: a plant native to Sikun (of 70 Ophiuchi A)
characterized by almost oblong leaves. Its green and white
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发帖数: 278 | 11 Truth suffers from too much analysis.
-Ancient Fremen Saying
"Reverend Mother, I shudder to see you in such
circumstances," Irulan said.
She stood just inside the cell door, measuring the
various capacities of the room in her Bene Gesserit way. It
was a three-meter cube carved with cutterays from the veined
brown rock beneath Paul's Keep. For furnishings, it
contained one flimsy basket chair occupied now by the
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, a pallet with a brown
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发帖数: 278 | 12 The Fremen see her as the Earth Figure, a demigoddess whose
special charge is to protect the tribes through her powers
of violence. She is Reverend Mother to their Reverend
Mothers. To pilgrims who seek 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.
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发帖数: 278 | 13 "You do not beg the sun for mercy."
-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary
One moment of incompetence can be fatal, the Reverend
Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam reminded herself.
She hobbled along, apparently unconcerned, within a ring
of Fremen guards. One of those behind her, she knew, was a
deaf-mute immune to any wiles of Voice. No doubt he'd been
charged to kill her at the slightest provocation.
Why had Paul summoned her? she wondered. Was he about to
pass sentence? She remem |
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发帖数: 278 | 14 CHALLENGE: "Have you seen The Preacher?"
RESPONSE: "I have seen a sandworm."
CHALLENGE: "What about that sandworm?"
RESPONSE: "It gives us the air we breathe."
CHALLENGE: "Then why do we destroy its land?"
RESPONSE: "Because Shai-Hulud [sandworm deified] orders it."
-Riddles of Arrakis by Harq al-Ada
As was the Fremen custom, the Atreides twins arose an
hour before dawn. They yawned and stretched in secret unison
in their adjoining chambers, feeling the activity of the
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发帖数: 278 | 15 melange (me'-lange also ma,lanj) n-s, origin uncertain
(thought to derive from ancient Terran Franzh): a. mixture
of spices; b. spice of Arrakis (Dune) with geriatric
properties first noted by Yanshuph Ashkoko, royal chemist in
reign of Shakkad the Wise; Arrakeen melange, found only in
deepest desert sands of Arrakis, linked to prophetic visions
of Paul Muad'Dib (Atreides), first Fremen Mahdi; also
employed by Spacing Guild Navigators and the Bene Gesserit.
-Dictionary Royal fifth edition
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发帖数: 4391 | 16 I just finished another 5 pages before going to bed last night. :)
There are much confusions on the use of shield, Sardarkuars, Fremen, and the
whole combat thing in TV series. If the director could have spared sometime
tring to explain the background, it would have made much more sense. :)
But again, it si a TV, it has a relatively low budget. :( |
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发帖数: 8 | 17 最近看Dune，还有几十页没看完，不过特急着弄清楚这个水，worm, spice的
关系，看了一下附录，大概知道，但不是很明白，想请大家指点一下。
基本上就是说，本来Arrakis上是有水的，后来worm幼虫把水眼都给堵住了，
下面的压力积累到一定程度就形成爆炸，水，worm幼虫的排泄物，和上面的什么
东西混合，从pre-spice mass变成spice了。（那是不是后来把worm和spice
都消灭掉，照Paul的想法，——就可以有水了？）
然后在一个地方（忘了名字了，什么Erg），有一些比较小的worm, 叫stunt
worm的，Fremen给抓来做祭祀用，把他们淹死在水里，水就有毒了，叫做
water of life? 要reverend mother转化成没毒的（这个这个，实在太不
科幻了，整个就是奇幻嘛）。
还有从pre-spice mass里溜出来，好不容易长大成人的虫子，才是沙漠里
让人害怕的sandworm，这些虫子怎么死呢？老死？
不好意思，英文比较烂，好多单词不认识，又急着看，没查，所以比较糊涂。
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