You impossible fool. What possessed you to think I would suggest a meeting here, of all places? My father taught me an important lesson many years ago. He said, 'Gwinlin, you have the whole world before you. Go out and experience it... be whatever you want to be.' So I took his advice, and here I am. This life might not look like much to you, but I'm content, and isn't that all that matters? Definitions are important. Your weapons, you will not need them. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Magrathea itself disappeared and its memory soon passed into the obscurity of legend. In these enlightened days, of course, no one believes a word of it. To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

To attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

• May the hair on your toes never fall out!