Student 1 FACULTAD DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES CUAUTITLÁN CENTRO DE IDIOMAS 35 the pale glistening gray of a stillsuit, a battered literjon, a kerchief with a small book Reading Level 1 in its center, the bladeless handle of a

Dune – crysknife, an empty sheath, a folded pack, a Fragmento paracompass, a distrans, a thumper, a pile of 40 fist-sized metallic hooks, an assortment of what Paul watched them move off into the shadows, looked like small rocks within a fold of cloth, leaving him alone. He felt abandoned. a clump of bundled feathers . . . and the The men who had fixed the curtain came up beside baliset exposed beside the folded pack. 5 him. So Jamis played the baliset, Paul thought. The "Come, Usul." 45 instrument reminded him of and He allowed himself to be guided forward, to be all that was lost. Paul knew with his memory of pushed into a circle of people being formed the future in the past that some chance-lines around Stilgar, who stood beneath the glowglobe could produce a meeting with Halleck, but the 10 and beside a bundled, curving, and angular shape reunions were few and shadowed. They puzzled gathered beneath a robe on the rock floor. 50 him. The uncertainty factor touched him with The troop crouched down at a gesture from wonder. Does it mean that something I will do . Stilgar, their robes hissing with the movement. . . that I may do, could destroy Gurney . . . or Paul settled with them, watching Stilgar, noting bring him back to life . . . or . . . 15 the way the overhead globe made pits of his eyes Paul swallowed, shook his head. and brightened the touch of green fabric at his 55 Again, Stilgar bent over the mound. neck. Paul shifted his attention to the robe- "For Jamis' woman and for the guards," he said. covered mound at Stilgar's feet, recognized the The small rocks and the book were taken into the handle of a baliset protruding from the fabric. folds of his robe. 20 "The spirit leaves the body's water when the "Leader's right," the troop intoned. first moon rises," Stilgar intoned. "Thus it is 60 "The marker for Jamis' coffee service," Stilgar spoken. When we see the first moon rise this said, and he lifted a flat disc of green metal. night, whom will it summon?" "That it shall be given to Usul in suitable "Jamis," the troop responded. ceremony when we return to the sietch." 25 Stilgar turned full circle on one heel, passing "Leader's right," the troop intoned. his gaze across the ring of faces. "I was a 65 Lastly, he took the crysknife handle and stood friend of Jamis," he said. "When the hawk plane with it. stooped upon us at Hole-in-the-Rock, it was "For the funeral plain," he said. Jamis pulled me to safety." "For the funeral plain," the troop responded. 30 He bent over the pile beside him, lifted away At her place in the circle across from Paul, the robe. "I take this robe as a friend of 70 Jessica nodded, recognizing the ancient source Jamis--leader's right." He draped the robe over of the rite, and she thought: The meeting a shoulder, straightening. between ignorance and knowledge, between Now, Paul saw the contents of the mound exposed: brutality and culture--it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead. She looked across

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75 at Paul, wondering: Will he see it? Will he 115 the anger and fear in the troop. A passage his know what to do? mother had once filmbooked for him on "The Cult "We are friends of Jamis," Stilgar said. "We are of the Dead" flickered through Paul's mind. He not wailing for our dead like a pack of knew what he had to do. garvarg." Slowly, Paul got to his feet. 80 A gray-bearded man to Paul's left stood up. "I 120 A sigh passed around the circle. was a friend of Jamis," he said. He crossed to Paul felt the diminishment of his self as he the mound, lifted the distrans. "When our water advanced into the center of the circle. It was went below minim at the siege at Two Birds, as though he lost a fragment of himself and Jamis shared." The man returned to his place in sought it here. He bent over the mound of 85 the circle. 125 belongings, lifted out the baliset. A string Am I supposed to say I was a friend of Jamis? twanged softly as it struck against something in Paul wondered. Do they expect me to take the pile. something from that pile? He saw faces turn "I was a friend of Jamis," Paul whispered. toward him, turn away. He felt tears burning his eyes, forced more 90 They do expect it! 130 volume into his voice. "Jamis taught me . . . Another man across from Paul arose, went to the that . . . when you kill . . . you pay for it. I pack and removed the paracompass. "I was a wish I'd known Jamis better." friend of Jamis," he said. "When the patrol Blindly, he groped his way back to his place in caught us at Bight-of-the-Cliff and I was the circle, sank to the rock floor. 95 wounded, Jamis drew them off so the wounded 135 A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" could be saved." He returned to his place in the It was taken up around the ring: "Usul gives circle. moisture to the dead!" Again, the faces turned toward Paul, and he saw He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the the expectancy in them, lowered his eyes. An awed whispers. 100 elbow nudged him and a voice hissed: "Would you 140 Jessica, hearing the voices, felt the depth of bring the destruction on us?" the experience, realized what terrible How can I say I was his friend? Paul wondered. inhibitions there must be against shedding Another figure arose from the circle opposite tears. She focused on the words: "He gives Paul and, as the hooded face came into the moisture to the dead." It was a gift to the 105 light, he recognized his mother. She removed a 145 shadow world--tears. They would be sacred beyond kerchief from the mount. "I was a friend of a doubt. Jamis," she said. "When the spirit of spirits Nothing on this planet had so forcefully within him saw the needs of truth, that spirit hammered into her the ultimate value of water. withdrew and spared my son." She returned to her Not the water-sellers, not the dried skins of 110 place. 150 the natives, not stillsuits or the rules of And Paul recalled the scorn in his mother's water discipline. Here there was a substance voice as she had confronted him after the fight. more precious than all others--it was life "How does it feel to be a killer?" itself and entwined all around with symbolism Again, he saw the faces turned toward him, felt and ritual.

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155 Water. desert "I touched his cheek," someone whispered. "I Glowglobe: suspensor-buoyed illuminating device, felt the gift." At first, the fingers touching his face self-powered (usually by organic batteries) frightened Paul. He clutched the cold handle of Literjon: a one-liter container for transporting 160 the baliset, feeling the strings bite his palm. water on ; made of high density, shatterproof Then he saw the faces beyond the groping hands-- the eyes wide and wondering. plastic with positive seal Presently, the hands withdrew. The funeral Paracompass: any compass that determines direction ceremony resumed. But now there was a subtle by local magnetic forces 165 space around Paul, a drawing back as the troop honored him by a respectful isolation. The Shai-hulud: of Arrakis, Sandworms grow to ceremony ended with a low chant: enormous size (specimens longer than 400 meters have "Full moon calls thee-- Shai-hulud shall thou see; been seen in the deep desert) and live to great age 170 Red the night, dusky sky, unless slain by one of their fellows or drowned in Bloody death didst thou die. water, which is poisonous to them. Most of the sand We pray to a moon: she is round-- Luck with us will then abound, on Arrakis is credited to sandworm action What we seek for shall be found Sietch: word for: "Place of assembly in time 175 In the land of solid ground." of danger" Because the Fremen lived so long in

peril, the term came by general usage to designate any cave inhabited by one of their tribal Glossary communities. Note: The following words describe elements from the novel, and are not part of the English language. The Stillsuit: body-enclosing garment invented on definitions are from the glossary found in the Arrakis. Its fabric is a microsandwich performing novel functions of heat dissipation and filter for bodily Baliset: a nine-stringed musical instrument, lineal wastes. Reclaimed moisture is made available to descendant of the zither, played by strumming. drink by tube from pockets Favorite instrument of Imperial troubadours. Thumper: short stake with spring-driven clapper at Crysknife: the sacred knife of the Fremen on Arrakis one end. The purpose: to be driven into the sand and Distrans: a device for producing a temporary neural set "thumping" to summon shai-hulud imprint of a message on the nervous system of birds Usul: fremen word for "The base of the pillar." which are used as communication

Fremen: the free tribes of Arrakis, dwellers in the