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Contents 1 Pariah was here. 2 Links 3 Paronomasia 4 Quotes 4.1 Frank Herbert on Life and Religion 4.2 More from Frank Herbert 4.3 Callahan’s Secret 4.4 Trigun 4.5 Ender’s Game 4.6 Good Omens

[edit] Links

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[edit] Paronomasia

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

• One entry found for paronomasia[1].
• Main Entry: par•o•no•ma•sia
• Pronunciation: "par-&-nO-'mA-zh(E-)&, "par-"ä-n&-'mA-
• Function: noun
• Etymology: Latin, from Greek, from paronomazein to call with a slight change of name, from para- + onoma name -- more at NAME
• a play on words : PUN
• - par•o•no•mas•tic /-'mas-tik/ adjective

[edit] Quotes

• I know good design when I fail to trip over it.----Jake, from Callahan's Secret by Spider Robinson

• Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens----Jimi Hendrix

• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence----Xenocrates

• The universe is change, life is opinion.----Marcus Aurelius

• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.----Henry David Thoreau in Walden

• Life ebbs as I speak: so seize each day, and grant the next no credit.----Horace

• When confronted with two paths, always take the harder one----Norbou, in Himalaya

[edit] Frank Herbert on Life and Religion

--From Dune

• "...the mystery of life is not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."---Paul, quoting the Reverend Mother (p. 31)

• The guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they’d chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

• The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.----from Collected Sayings of Maud’Dib by the Princess Irulan, (p. 321)

• ...he knew fear at the thought of such a place, because removal of all limitations meant removal of all points of reference.

• Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of religion to fit man into this lawfulness.----from the Orange Catholic Bible (Appendix II, p. 504)

• All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax.----from the Orange Catholic Bible (Appendix II, p. 505)

• Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.----Bomoko, Chairman of the C.E.T. (Commission of the Ecumenical Translators—who assembled the Orange Catholic Bible)

• “You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.”----Paul-Muad’Dib, quoting “Bomoko’s Legacy”—(P. 506, Appendix II)

• Mysticism isn’t difficult when you survive each second by surmounting open hostility----Page 507, Appendix II

• Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality----From the O.C. Bible (P.506, Appendix II)

• Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in sealed flask. The human question is not of how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.--Pardot Kynes, First Planetologist of Arrakis (P. 493—Appendix 1)

• There’s an internally recognized beauty of motion and balance on any man-healthy planet... You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system’s capacity to sustain life. Life—-all life—-is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.--Pardot Kynes, First Planetologist of Arrakis (P. 493—Appendix 1)

[edit] More from Frank Herbert

--From Dune Messiah

• “Where is there substance in a universe composed of events? ... Is there a final answer? Doesn’t each solution produce new questions?”----Paul to Hayt / Duncan, p. 137

• “I’ve seen the oracle at work... I’ve seen those who seek signs and omens for their individual destiny. They fear what they seek.”---- Hayt / Duncan to Paul, p. 138

• “Men always fear things which move by themselves... You fear your own powers. Things fall into your head from nowhere. When they fall out, where do they go?”----Hayt / Duncan to Paul, p. 138

• You do not beg the sun for mercy.---Maud’Dib’s travail, from The Stilgar Commentary (p. 141)

• There are many degrees of sight, and many degrees of blindness... What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?---Page 153, from the O.C. Bible.

• The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other... behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: “I feed on your energy”---Addenda to Orders in Council, the Emperor Paul Muad’dib; page 201

[personal comments, noted page 213: All things have two edges. To know the future is to be burdened by it and blinded by it. Once you have chosen a course to see, you have blinded yourself to other paths. /// Remember the hearts of others /// Thoughts and feelings can provoke each other: set your mind one way, your feelings will follow. Set your heart another way, your mind will find a way to analyze and justify it.]

• Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions, and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality. ----Jessica, in a letter to Alia, page 215

[edit] Callahan’s Secret

By Spider Robinson

• Sometimes a mocking voice whispers vile things in a man’s ear--things he can’t shut out because he half believes they’re true. But if you can personify that voice, and get him to fight it, to reject it...----Jake (narrating), page 42, The Blacksmith’s Tale

• I screwed my eyes so tight I saw neon paisley--Jake (narrating), page 43, The Blacksmith’s Tale)

• “Finn, you’ve been unable to love because you haven’t loved yourself because you haven’t loved us.”----Mary, page 43, The Blacksmith’s Tale.

• “Hell, Marty, Callahan’s been training us for years! Now we’ve got to start figuring it out for ourselves, that’s all. To approach telepathy, you start with empathy and crank that up as high as you can. You care about each other. You feel each other’s joy and pain. You make each other laugh, and help each other cry. You work hard at trusting each other, so it’s safe to dismantle the fortress around your ego. You forgive each other anything that stands between you, and try to bring out each other’s best, you work very hard at hosing all the bullshit out of your head so that it’s clean enough for guests, silencing all the demons in your subconscious so that it’s quiet enough to hear somebody thinking at you, and most of all you find ways to make that work so much fun that you keep on working. You stick together and love each other and keep growing.”----Jake, speaking to the gang, Page 170, Mick of Time

[edit] Trigun

--Anime Series

• “Everyone has a future”----Rem

[edit] Ender’s Game

By Orson Scott Card

• Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.----Page 94

[edit] Good Omens

--By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

• The small alien walked past the car. "CO2 level up 0.5 per cent," it rasped, giving him a meaningful look. "You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don’t you?"----Page 199

• Anathema, who had picked up witchcraft as she went along, disapproved of liquor in general, but approved of it in her specific case.----Page 211

• You see, it’s not enough to know what the future is. You have to know what it means.----Anathema to Newt, page 210

• Some of the old-style Satanists tended, in fact, to be quite nice people. They mouthed the words and went through the motions, just like the people they thought of as their opposite numbers, and then went home and lived lives of unassuming mediocrity for the rest of the week with never an unusually evil thought in their heads.----Page 84

• It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers.----Page 87

• Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice. Various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.----Page 329