caeruleancentaur wrote:
>Many years ago I enjoyed Frank Herbert's "Dune." I saw a movie
>version of it yesterday afternoon for the umpteenth time on AMC. I
>was always impressed by the "Fear is the mind killer" passage.
This is a very cool passage (but I found both versions of the movie pretty
tedious), but one thing I never noticed before:
>Fear is the little-death that btings total obliteration.
Do you think Herbert intended any connection with the other meaning of "the
little-death"? You know, "le petit mort"?
M