Arrakis / Dune

Well. How humbling.
I just read all Wikipedia entries to Dune.

I read Dune when I was fifteen, all six books in two weeks of french, white lakes and cirrus clouds. I fell deep into this world, emerged only very slowly and never went back again.
Or so I thought.
Now I see a gentle young boy again, sacrificing himself to a lonely eternity, recreating his always dying companion and only friend time and time again, because he saw the futures and has to secure the only one in which humanity survives.
Worlds upon worlds with religions and wisdom, the biggest danger in form of sentient machines, and a Human Imperium whose primary goal is to stay stable and SECURE, which would ultimately destroy it, if it weren't for said immortal boy mixing adventure and expansion into humanity.
Great GOD, how humbling.
Right, so nearly nothing in Traidis is truly mine. Herbert, Shakespeare and Zimmer-Bradley did it all before.
But, well, at least I mix it in a new way.

Strange to read all that, like finding an old, lost childhood friend.