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6981455 No.6981455 [Reply] [Original]

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Time to grow up, /lit/.

>> No.6981459

>>6981455
Dune is, at worst, late-adolescent, and you can make a strong argument that it's fundamentally mature, depending on how you want to read it.

>> No.6981476
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>>6981455

the majority of science fiction is for teenage boys

consider Dune:
the hero wins in the end while riding a giant worm...calling Dr. Freud

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>>6981455

women write awful sc-fi
ever wonder why?

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>>6981522
You still spake like a child.
>B&

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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Time to grow up, /lit/.

>> No.6981548

>>6981476
Dune's ending is tragic, though

>>6981522
James Tiptree son