Author: Kevin and Herbert, Brian Anderson

Cites

• Josef Venport (1)
  • IN: Mentats of Dune (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The idiocy of it all! I cannot decide whether to laugh at Butlerian insanity, or weep for the future of our species. What will those fanatics demand next? The complete absence of medical technology? Would they outlaw fire, and declare the existence of the wheel too dangerous? Are we all to be relegated to huddling in forests and fields? Enough. This is the decree of Venport Holdings: No VenHold cargo ship or passenger transport shall trade with any planet that signs Manford Torondo’s antitechnology pledge. We will deliver no goods or passengers, transmit no communications, engage in no commerce with any world that shares his dangerous, barbarian philosophy. Make your choice: Do you prefer to bask in the glow of civilization, or cower in the shadows of primitive despair? Decide.
    FROM: DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, formal business announcement, (2014), Speech, NULL
• Emperor Salvador (1)
  • IN: Mentats of Dune (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Each time I solve a crisis, another springs forth like a noxious weed. What am I to do, Roderick? Problems come at me from all directions! I disbanded the Sisterhood school on Rossak because they were suspected of possessing forbidden computers — though I could never prove it, and they made me look like a fool. And after what happened to our dear sister Anna when she was among them.… What a terrible shame! Will she ever be the same? When the treachery of the Suk doctors was exposed, I nearly broke them, too. Despite their purported Imperial Conditioning, and even though I now force them to operate under close scrutiny, I do not trust them. Yet, with my numerous health issues, I have no choice but to let them tend me. Manford Torondo pressures me to adopt his Butlerian nonsense and follow his every whim, while Josef Venport demands the opposite. They are both madmen, but if I ignore Manford Torondo, he can summon wild and destructive mobs. And if I don’t appease Venport, he holds our entire economy hostage. I feel like a man chained between two Salusan bulls pulling in opposite directions! I am the third Corrino to sit on the Imperial throne since the defeat of the thinking machines — why is it so difficult to make my own citizens listen to me? Help me decide what to do, dear brother. As always, I value your advice above all others.
    FROM: private Corrino correspondence, Emperor Salvador to Prince Roderick, (2014), Fictional, NULL
• Gilbertus Albans (1)
  • IN: Mentats of Dune (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What do all our accomplishments matter, if they do not last beyond our lifetimes?
    FROM: Headmaster Gilbertus Albans, Mentat School Archives, (2014), Fictional, NULL
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Navigators of Dune (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All things begin, and all things end—there are no exceptions. Or, is this a myth?
    FROM: Debating topic, the Mentat School, (2016), Fictional, NULL