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Decode: Dune episode 021: Paul and Jessica go camping; what's a water decision?


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We’re now in Dune Book 2: Muad Dib! 

 

It’s a rare 2 chapter episode: in Chapter 1 of Book 2, Paul and Jessica are still out in the stilltent recovering from the attack on their home, the death of Leto and Paul’s early onset prescience, including the revelation that Jessica is the Baron Harkonnen’s daughter and consequently, Paul is “half Harkonnen, Half Atreides”.  

 

The boys discuss nature vs nurture and that the idea here is sure they both have Harkonnen genes, but they are “culturally Atreides”.

 

In the next chapter, Thufir is with his wounded men and encounters a Fremen.  In this chapter we learn about “water decisions”, we see the first glimpse of the fremen’s elite fighting capabilities and some big differences between the fremen and the Atreides.  

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