I’m currently the farthest I’ve ever gotten reading Dune right now, a whopping 150 pages. I first got a copy in sixth grade as a Christmas present, but didn’t get very far.

Then, I tried reading it in high school, because my environmental science teacher was a big fan. During our last week of class, after the AP test was done, he screened the David Lynch movie for us in those 40-minute increments you only get in a school setting. Again, I didn’t get very far at all. That teacher got sacked the next year for swearing at a student, though the reasons were more political than the profanity. (Teachers swore all the time, and this particular teacher wasn’t a fan of tailoring his curriculum to the AP test, so, put two and two together). Before he packed this desk up, he left the words “Fear is the mind-killer” on the whiteboard. That guy was cool, and an awesome teacher. He could ride a unicycle.

Anyway, there’s nothing like a good pun to get you through dense literature.

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