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Date Posted: 14:30:17 07/03/03 Thu
Author: Ghanima
Subject: A clue to what Idaho saw?
In reply to: IDAHO 's message, "More Dune 7 Speculation" on 17:27:51 06/27/03 Fri

I've been reading Tim O'Reilly's book about Frank Herbert online, and I came across this passage in the second chapter and it made a little lightbulb appear over my head. Could this be Frank riffing off of the same idea?

"That first science-fiction story, "Looking for Something," was published in the April 1952 issue of Startling Stories. It concerns the queer belief of a stage hypnotist that the world he and everyone else sees is the illusion of a master hypnotist. And of course it is. An ancient race of alien beings hidden from sight by hypnotic command farms humans for a glandular secretion that provides them with a kind of vampiric immortality. Paul Marcus, the hypnotist, is discovered by the chief indoctrinator of the aliens just as he is on the point of unearthing the master hypnotic command buried in the mind of his pretty young assistant. He is not killed; he is simply reprogrammed to another fantasy life, as a street-car driver instead of a hypnotist. There he will have no need for unsettling thought, the indoctrinator concludes before going off to handle his next case. "

Check it out at:
http://tim.oreilly.com/sci-fi/herbert/ch02.html

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