Talk:Water of Life (Dune)

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[edit] Spice essence

There seems to be some confusion here between the spice essence and the Water of Life. Some of this may be unavoidable as the books themselves are not completely internally consistent, even within the six original FH-written novels. (IIRC - haven't read them through in about 20 years.) I'll try to clear it up and if I'm off I'm sure some Dunian will correct me... Ellsworth 00:56, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Are they not the same thing? I'd love to analyze some quotations from the actual texts on this one. I'll look. TAnthony 01:47, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I've clarified the terms to some degree, though the article needs more work. — TAnthony^Talk 04:49, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spice trance

The term "spice trance" is never attributed to Navigators in the original series (and it is only used in Children of Dune). Alia refers to it as a "navigation trance" in CoD:

Not without reason was the spice often called "the secret coinage." Without melange, the Spacing Guild's heighliners could not move. Melange precipitated the "navigation trance" by which a translight pathway could be "seen" before it was traveled. Without melange and its amplification of the human immunogenic system, life expectancy for the very rich degenerated by a factor of at least four. Even the vast middle class of the Imperium ate diluted melange in small sprinklings with at least one meal a day.

TAnthony 02:43, 1 May 2007 (UTC)