Melange and Other I.T. Stories

She would meet her father for a glass of wine after a performance and talk, telling each other stories. She lights up at the memory. Opera is full of all that.

Since the turn of the Millennium, the radical changes in how we communicate have left us missing something, she says. You prepare for it, decide who to go with, what to wear and where to get it. Will you go to dinner beforehand? Illusion is necessary, of course, for the magic of nostalgia to work, she admits. Melange precipitated the "navigation trance" by which a translight pathway could be "seen" before it was traveled.

Without melange and its amplification of the human immunogenic system, life expectancy for the very rich degenerated by a factor of at least four. Even the vast middle class of the Imperium ate diluted melange in small sprinklings with at least one meal a day. Referred to as "the spice", melange can be mixed with food, and it is used to make beverages such as "spice coffee", "spice beer", and "spice liquor". Melange is in fact a drug in the clinical sense, and daily use can extend human life spans by hundreds of years. The Navigators of the Spacing Guild depend upon melange for the heightened awareness and the prescient ability to see safe paths through space-time, allowing them to navigate the gigantic Guild heighliners between planets.

The Navigators must exist within a cloud of spice gas in a tank; this intense and extended exposure mutates their bodies over time.

Water of Life , a substance related to melange, is used for the " spice agony ", a ritual performed in different ways by the Fremen and the Bene Gesserit. It involves an "illuminating poison" used to elevate consciousness and unlock genetic memory. Bene Gesserit survivors of the deadly ordeal are then known as Reverend Mothers. In the original novel, Dune , Lady Jessica refers to the ritual as "the Reverend Mother ordeal" as she experiences it.

In Children of Dune , the term spice trance is used to describe the effects of an overdose of spice. Alia had previously subjected herself to such an overdose late in Dune Messiah , hoping to enhance her prescient visions; she achieves some success, but in Children of Dune , Leto II and Ghanima blame the trance for Alia's descent into Abomination.

Fearful of the same fate, they resist Alia's urgings to undergo the spice trance themselves.

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The trial is later forced upon Leto at Jacurutu when it is suspected that he too is an Abomination. Leto survives the challenge and escapes, but is left changed. Unlike Alia, however, he remains in control, and the spice trance opens his eyes to the Golden Path that will ultimately save humanity.

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Extensive use of the drug tints the sclera , cornea , and iris of the user to a dark shade of blue, called "blue-in-blue" or "the Eyes of Ibad", [17] which is something of a source of pride among the Fremen and a symbol of their tribal bond. In Dune , Paul initially has green eyes, but after several years on Arrakis they begin to take on the deep, uniform blue of the Fremen.

On other planets, the addicted often use tinted contact lenses to hide this discoloration. The taller of the two, though, held a hand to his left eye. As the Emperor watched, someone jostled the Guildsman's arm, the hand moved, and the eye was revealed. The man had lost one of his masking contact lenses, and the eye stared out a total blue so dark as to be almost black. In both the film and miniseries versions of Dune , the eyes of spice users are shown as a luminous bright blue, with iris still distinct from sclera.

When aerosolized and used as an inhalant in extremely high dosages—the standard practice for Guild Navigators—the drug acts as a mutagen. In the first chapter of Dune Messiah , Guild Navigator Edric is described in his tank of spice gas as "an elongated figure, vaguely humanoid with finned feet and hugely fanned membranous hands—a fish in a strange sea. Anderson — , Project Amal [20] is an early attempt by the Bene Tleilax to create synthetic melange in order to eliminate dependence upon Arrakis. The old Emperor wants to remove the spice monopoly by making sure that he has the only access to it, thus controlling the Spacing Guild.

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The Tleilaxu subsequently rename Ix " Xuttuh " after their founder. In the year 10, A. Although Tleilaxu Master Hidar Fen Ajidica manages to create an artificial melange called " ajidamal ", or "amal" that seems to have the original's properties, it does not work properly. Test- sandtrout explode when exposed to it, and Fenring's test of its use by Guild Navigators ends in catastrophe as one heighliner and its passengers are destroyed and the Navigator of a second heighliner dies. In reading these tales, the reader is exposed to — among other things — a story composed of one long, slithering sentence; another composed almost entirely of questions; and yet more that are composed entirely of dialogue.

There are legends, there are letters, there are fables, there are essays. The long shadows of Beckett, Kafka, Borges and Nabokov do hang low over the work, yet Barthelme nearly always sounds fresh. Firstly, because its author is grossly under-appreciated and secondly, because reading him will give one fresh insights into recent short story greats such as George Saunders and David Foster Wallace. People should also read the book because Barthelme is a relic of a time long since passed: He is a writer who is not afraid to make the the reader roar with laughter — or to be wilfully difficult.

He wanted his readers to work but was ready to reward them every step of the way.

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