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Tragedy

Northrop Frye's First Essay

Northrop Frye's First Essay

Bringing it all together Let's do a brief recap. First, I described Northrop Frye's model of stories as a phase space. A phase space describes all possible states of a system through time. You can build one up by seeing how one thing changes into another

Fixing Herbert's Mistake

Fixing Herbert's Mistake

I came across this article yesterday about how there is an opportunity with Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two to "fix" Herbert's mistake. That was a bold enough statement to give me an opportunity to explore what Frank Herbert was doing with Dune. The way

Life Goals

Dune Messiah Book Review

Dune: Messiah is the fulfillment of everything that Frank Herbert set up in Dune, the nemesis that inevitably follows hubris. I can see why is it something of a let-down after the magnificent achievement of Dune. There is very little adventure in Messiah, which Herbert blended so skillfully with tragedy