ambivalence, n.

So, they finally got around to writing Dune 7.

I know I should feel something, but I don't know what. Twenty years on, the end of Chapterhouse seems less and less disturbing. We kinda wonder what's with the two Face Dancers and the Enemy and whatnot, but really, we already know in our hearts, the gentle clues lurk between the words and letters, just like we know that the crisis has passed for the Bene Gesserit and left man better off. There's a universe of possibility, but a pregnant world is the natural condition of things. Do we really need that hack to continue to ply his work? Will I end up reading the damn'd book regardless, despite the risk inherent and the knowledge that I'll constantly be wondering whether this or that comes from the deceased man's notebooks or the diseased man's?

More questions our heart knows how to answer. But not in hardcover, damn it.