The article details how the inspiration for Frank Herbert's desertified planet was born from learnings he'd acquired over the years from a Hoh man he knew in his youth, Henry Martin (aka Indian Henry) and one of his best friends in adulthood, Howard Hansen, of La Push and Seattle. I wrote about Howard in this section a few years ago: about his memoir, Twilight on the Thunderbird, and a report about attending Howard's memorial service in La Push. NWH members who picked up a copy of "Thunderbird" are already aware that Howard and Frank Herbert were pals, and that Howard was godfather to Herbert's son Brian.
Daniel Immerwahr's essay in the NYTimes is a distillation of a longer, scholarly article in the Journal of American Studies:
FYI re copies of Twilight on the Thunderbird: The link in the NY Times article for Howard's book is for Third Place Books, which originally published Thunderbird when they had a small in-house publishing dept which is no longer in operation. TPB and Amazon still have some copies, but more will be available in the near future through a new publisher.
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I met Frank Herbert when a student at the UW he was still a reporter for the PI on the UW beat. I was the head of the Academic Affairs department of the student government. It published the Course Critique which rated courses and professors. He did not seem happy as a reporter. Dune had just been published and was extremely popular. Of course I congratulated him on the book. At the time he did not seem like a sci fi author who would revolutionize the genre.
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There's a biography (2003) written by his son. I have mixed feelings about people writing bios of their close relatives, ie, being too close for objectivity. But if someone else were going to do it, it would have been done by now. At least there's a reliable chronology and scaffolding which probably would have been difficult for anyone else to reconstruct.
A friend cajoled me into reading Dune back in the late 70's; difficult for me, someone who doesn't read a lot of fiction, much less science fiction. I've thought about picking it up again now to see if I can get more out of it. I watched the original Dune movie the other night. No wonder director David Lynch disavowed it - a terrible editing job; there seemed to be such an obsession with moving the plot line forward that there's no character development whatever. It will be interesting to see what the new film is like.
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It will be interesting to see what the new film is like.
It's very, very faithful to the book, but they did choose to omit a few things that I wish weren't cut (the dinner scene namely), but since it's only half of the book we won't really have a full picture until Part 2 comes out - which probably won't be for another 3 years.
Like Anne Elk, in the 70s, a friend recommended the book to me but I didn't get very far. I have to tell you, I'm OK with Sci-Fi movies, but not a huge fan. However, I watched the NEW movie on HBO Max today and I was completely captivated. I loved the tone, soundtrack, story-line and it fulfilled my need for escape. (Especially since I'm isolating in my upstairs room, with symptoms, after testing positive for the virus on Friday.) As mentioned, now I just have to wait a couple years for more of the story.....
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"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
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Anne Elk
-------------- "These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)
"Sometimes you're happy. Sometimes you cry.
Half of me is ocean. Half of me is sky."
(Thanks, Tom Petty)
Seattle was different in the early 70’s the P.I. was a Hearst paper and very conservative with a guy named Lou Guzzo as editor. Lou did not seem to like the UW very much and hippies, students, and peaceniks less. I believe he was sent to do a hit job on the Course Critique and was not happy about it. Lots of gotcha questions etc. but the article was quite fair. I guess he was a bit of a rebel at heart at least judging from the Dune trilogy and really into the spice. By the way Dave Horsey was the cartoonist on the UW Daily at that time.
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-------------- "You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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