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Book Two: Muad‘dib
PerhapssomeofmyFremenwillseethemandcometoinvestigate.
“Totheworkingplanetologist,hismostimportanttoolishumanbeings,”hisfathersaid.“Youmustcultivateecologicalliteracyamongthepeople.That’swhyI’vecreatedthisentirelynewformofecologicalnotation.”
He’srepeatingthingshesaidtomewhenIwasachild,Kynesthought.
Hebegantofeelcool,butthatcorneroflogicinhismindtoldhim:Thesunisoverhead.Youhavenostillsuitandyou’rehot;thesunisburningthemoistureoutofyourbody.
Hisfingersclawedfeeblyatthesand.
Theycouldn’tevenleavemeastillsuit!
“Thepresenceofmoistureintheairhelpspreventtoo-rapidevaporationfromlivingbodies,”hisfathersaid.
Whydoeshekeeprepeatingtheobvious?Kyneswondered.
Hetriedtothinkofmoistureintheair—grasscoveringthisdune...openwatersomewherebeneathhim,alongqanatflowingwithwateropentotheskyexceptintextillustrations.Openwater...irrigationwater...ittookfivethousandcubicmetersofwatertoirrigateonehectareoflandpergrowingseason,heremembered.
“OurfirstgoalonArrakis,”hisfathersaid,“isgrasslandprovinces.Wewillstartwiththesemutatedpovertygrasses.Whenwehavemoisturelockedingrasslands,we’llmoveontostartuplandforests,thenafewopenbodiesofwater—smallatfirst—andsituatedalonglinesofprevailingwindswithwindtrapmoistureprecipitatorsspacedinthelinestorecapturewhatthewindsteals.
