nemafakei Posted April 13, 2002 Share Posted April 13, 2002 Ok, is it just me, or are there too many strange similarities here to be normal?- The whole desert thing is totally forgivable, but...- Jabbar- Carrot gets a few passages that sound just like Dune- about Paul Muad'dib (eg riding a camel - 'he shall know your ways as if born to them'), plus he still has a commander, as Paul defers to Stilgar sometimes.- 'Beti' and some BG refenences- The stuff about the disorganiser and the stuff about Paul's decisions ad his prescience about them- The D'regs and the Fremenetc.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usul Posted April 14, 2002 Share Posted April 14, 2002 Finally a fellow Discworld fan! I never noticed that when I read it but yes I see your point. But the D'regs seem different to the Fremen to me, all that about the eyeballs. I supose you could say Vimes losing the disorganiser was like Paul losing his prescience in Messiah. What BG references were there, those by Vetinari? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordecai Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 As I have said before Nema, the reason they appear similar is that they both have similar origins (the bedouin) and a lot of it is circumstantial - Jabbar is just two syllables, and also the context is totally dissimilar. The disorganiser is a recurrent theme in the recent watch books, and it otherwise has no shared properties with Paul's prescience. Beti is also a two syllable name, and more to the point, it is Arabic - another common source. Paul is seen as a Messiah even by Liet, but Vimes is kept as a prisoner by Ahmed whom the D'regs fear far more than Vimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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