And if it was the doctor character who recited it, his wife was a Bene Gesserit, so he’d be more likely to have been exposed to it even if it was a semi-secret of the Gesserit.
Corrections, 'coz I’m feeling bitchy today.
Paul Atreides.
Dr. Wellington Yueh (Dean Stockwell) – immaterial to this discussion.
Piter DeVries (Brad Dourif)
“It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of saphu that the thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.”
If it was the doctor character who recited it, his wife was a Bene Gesserit, so he’d be more likely to have been exposed to it even if it was a semi-secret of the Gesserit.
We’ve established it wasn’t the doctor who recited it. But, even if his wife were a “Gesserit Witch,” they weren’t in the habit of sharing their secrets, not even to their husbands.
It was only the Lady Jessica who broke the rules, fell in love with the duke, bore him a son & then trained the kid in the ways of the Bene Gesserit. This I suppose was because she knew the Sisterhood would be pissed & so Paul had to be able to defend against their various mind tricks, etc. Even then, I don’t think she ever shared any Bene Gesserit secrets with the duke, despite how much she loved him.
Anyway, I’d sure like to get my hands on some of that Saphu juice.
I’d like mélange more.
Mmmm… Mystic Cinnamon.
“Fear leads to hate… hate leads to anger… anger leads to suffering”
- Yoda/Fozzy the Bear
"Fun, Pall thought. That most dangerous of seductions.
It was a Path, true enough-- a Path towards stagnation and poverty. As by reflex, he tensed to repel the attraction he felt toward it. “Let the inferior of the race prattle about fun,” his mother had once told him. “It’s the Path of the Loser.”
Then, invoking his mother’s Boni Maroni discipline, he repeated the Litany Against Fun: “I must not have fun. Fun is the time-killer. Fun is for children, customers, and the help. I will forget fun. I will take a pass on it. And while it is going, I will turn a blind eye toward it. Where fun is gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain–I, and my will to win. Damn, I’m good.”
(Doon, the dessert planet)
Quite so, Capt. Crude.
I stand corrected. I have my Litanies confused. And of cource, my character names, as I only saw the movie(s). And some time ago, at that.
They were very visual films, but I don’t think the book lent itself well to being compressed into a few-hour format. But that is all cafe society discussion.
No doubt about that one. I recall the scene which said “many years passed in the desert” or some such. It should have been “many years and half the book passed”.