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...dregs of the literary population have risen as one worm to insult me," Edith stormed in a typical rhetorical outburst...
Told through a combination of straight narrative and excerpts from imaginary histories and journals, God Emperor is a cautionary yarn about the messianic ego and an uncritical faith in technology. The book also harbors a cynical view of politics. Some musings from the worm who would be god: "Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat." Some of Leto's decrees are variations on the Old Testament. Dune's religion, for example, outlaws computers as graven im ages of the mind. Throughout, his observations...
Unfortunately, most students and faculty members are completely ignorant of the structure of the course. Its "gut" reputation persists, despite the revamping of the course over the last few years. Such rumors are perpetuated by narrow-minded people; they are the ones who regurgitate those time worm slogans like "Eliot's preppy" or "Kirkland's for jocks." This narrow-mindedness is clearly exemplified by The Harvard Independent's J. Campbell, who safely restates an accepted but naive public opinion in his article entitled "Last Run for Galactic Gut?" (Harvard Independent, February...
...Kinquering Kongs Their Titles Take"-is said to have brought down the house of worship, and to have kicked off the genre. After that, spoonerisms got quite elaborate. Spooner once reportedly chided a student: "You have hissed all my mystery lectures. In fact, you have tasted the whole worm, and must leave by the first town drain...
...company as soon as the cease-fire expired in May. Barrow, therefore, huddled with some of Kennecott's directors last November and then announced a pre emptive strike: Kennecott was going to take over Curtiss-Wright. Said one Wall Street source: "The apple had bitten the worm." The copper company offered Curtiss-Wright owners $40 a share for their stock, nearly twice the then prevailing rate. Curtiss-Wright promptly went to court to halt the takeover attempt, but the court ruled that Barrow could go ahead with his move...