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epitome of incomprehensibility
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So I was avoiding googling the phrase "bene gesserit" because someone on the Internet had joked about being part of the secret order of the Bene Gesserit, and since I thought this sounded Hebrew (I was also conscious of hearing it before sometime) I was afraid that this was something racists had made up about a Jewish conspiracy. I didn't want to look up the words for fear of finding depressing and angrifying things.
Turns out it's the name of the matriarchal wizard order in the Dune fantasy series. Now, writer Frank Herbert did seem to mix a lot of religions together for his stories, but my imagination was so far off the mark that I feel a little foolish. And morbid. Why's my imagination so morbid? Not enough Vitamin D, maybe.
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