CHAT: Bene Gesserit

Roger Mills wrote:
> . . . Latin:  'It will have done well'-- though I think the
> official version is incorrectly passive:  it will have been done well.
> ... (My first pb copy of Dune didn't have a glossary IIRC;  I assumed
> Bene was some sort of corruption relatable to Hebrew "Bnai".)
Evidently mine had no glossary either.  I'd had some Latin,
and read <Bene Gesserit> as `[she] shall have borne well'.


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Anton Sherwood  --  http://www.ogre.nu/ (online again, Nov.19)

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