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To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
Frank Herbert
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Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
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Frank Patrick Herbert
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