@Valka D'Ur you got less than 6 hours sleep in 5 days? I got sleeping problem, but that's even more severe than me. Keep yourselves dehydrated, makes your room cool enough and dark, and think that you are just a piece of log in a wood, or a rock, sometime it works for me.
I actually accidentally got about 4 hours' sleep this morning. I just intended to rest for an hour or so before putting in my grocery order. But suddenly I woke up, discovered it was just after 12 noon (noon is the cutoff for orders) and promptly called the store and let them know I still wanted my stuff and could I give them my list for the week. They said it was okay (I have a reserved spot every Saturday), so my order is now in. I have stay awake now because I have no idea when the stuff is coming - could be an hour from now or not until this evening, depending on how busy they are and who the delivery person is (the late afternoon/evening person does this as a second job as he actually manages another branch of this store in a neighboring town and doesn't get off work until 5 pm).
I think you mean I should keep myself hydrated... you just told me to avoid drinking.
Not to worry. I have lots to drink around, though of course I can't do it when I'm asleep. Water, milk, watermelon juice, drinkable yogurt...
I will certainly make the effort to sleep after the groceries come, though. I think this current situation is partly due to stress, partly due to the weather (which has been bizarre for most of the last month), and partly because there are a few conversations that I'm trying to get done (and people keep posting, so it's hard to keep up).
Oh, and next rant: It looks like my favorite kind of tinned mackerel is discontinued (or at least this store no longer carries it), and the store is out of onion & garlic potato chips. My life is completely ruined now.
Ugh. Personally, I hate genderswaps in principle, feels disrespectful to the original author. IIRC Kynes was forced by Harkonnens by holding his wife and child (or children) hostage.
Thank you! Everyone else has been insisting it's no big deal, what's the fuss, and they've even tried to tell me it doesn't matter because there's no way to tell that Chani is even connected to Liet-Kynes (and they wouldn't budge even after I posted the relevant clip from the Lynch movie and stated that the dialogue is directly from the novel: "I am Chani, daughter of Liet").
Fact: "Liet" is Kynes' Fremen name, and he married into Stilgar's tribe. Liet-Kynes was married to Stilgar's sister, meaning Chani is Stilgar's niece. Chani's mother died some time before the opening events of the novel, so Kynes' death makes her an orphan. So I told them over at TrekBBS that it would be weird (not to mention completely against Fremen custom) if a female Kynes married Stilgar's sister, as I don't think it's stated either in the novel or the Encyclopedia that Stilgar has a blood-kin brother, though he refers to Kynes as his brother (implication being that a brother-in-law is basically considered to be a brother as far as tribal acceptance is concerned).
Given the patriarchal attitudes of the Imperium (the Fremen culture is also patriarchal; even though they respect and usually take advice from their Reverend Mothers - the Fremen equivalent of the Bene Gesserit, who are keepers of Fremen history through Other Memory - the Naibs of the sietches are always male and they make the decisions for the tribe), I very much doubt that it would be acceptable to the Fremen that a female Kynes could marry Stilgar's sister, and a woman wouldn't have been granted that kind of authority by the Emperor in the first place. The notion that a female Kynes could marry Stilgar's nonexistent brother and produce a daughter... is just people being deliberately obtuse.
As for the collaboration with the Harkonnens... (spoilered in case the movie actually does follow the book a bit and includes the subplot in which the Duke and Paul know there's a traitor but not who)
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