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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
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Frank Patrick Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
Franklin Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
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Trapped
Collapse
Absolutely
Becomes
Present
Future
Time
Collapses

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