Preface
Born in a different millenium in a country that exists no more, I was raised as the only scion of a family that might have been called a house if not for the historical reality that rendered impossible the very notion of a noble house in that nonextant country. Living most of my life in the aftermath of its collosal wreck, lacking peers of my age who would have been friends with me, I had grown fond of books. One quote has more than any other made appearance in my life, and it is as good as it is beautiful:
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'
I doubt that many of you would find it necessary for me to quote its source.