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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 03:14:15 JST clacke

   Elmo meets the Gom Jabbar

   youtube.com/watch?v=EHK5fBm1YW…

   farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

   I see in the comments that at least one fedi discovered this video already over 9 months ago. 😁

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     Random Damage 🌻 (randomdamage@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 08:16:30 JST Random Damage 🌻

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     @clacke Closest I know of is a verse in "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 08:16:32 JST clacke

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     I discovered this when searching for whether anyone had made a derivative of Walk Like an Egyptian, but about the Fremen sand walk.

     So far the answer seems to be no.

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     scolobb (scolobb@bidule.menf.in)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 08:16:45 JST scolobb

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     @clacke This video is amazing!
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 23:40:27 JST clacke

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     • tipjip
     @tipjip I know very little about what happens after the second book, and what I know is from the SyFy series, web forums or wiki pages, so apologies if some subtle joke goes over my head. =)
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     tipjip (tipjip@bonn.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 23:40:29 JST tipjip

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     @clacke
     They have to get to Chapterhouse Dune for the sand dance. Don't ya know? ⏳💃

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 23:40:30 JST clacke

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     @tipjip As far as I know the sand walk is an invention by Villeneuve and friends?
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 20:48:47 JST clacke

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     • tipjip
     @tipjip They just say "walk without rhythm", don't they? Without mentioning having a whole choreography for it.
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     tipjip (tipjip@bonn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 20:48:49 JST tipjip

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     @clacke
     The idea of walking without attracting a worm through the desert is to not make repetitive sounds and to simulate the natural shifts of the the sands. It's in the books from the beginning. How that would actually look in practice is what you have movie directors for. From the book description it sound unnatural, complicated and exhausting to me.

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     tipjip (tipjip@bonn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 20:48:51 JST tipjip

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     @clacke
     I recommend struggling through books 3-4 because it gets really good again after. Chapterhouse is the second best in the series IMHO.

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     tipjip (tipjip@bonn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:48:19 JST tipjip

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     @clacke In "Children of Dune" its described thus: "He moved with the random walk which made only those sounds natural to the desert. Nothing in his passage would tell that worm back there that human flesh moved here. It was a way of walking so deeply conditioned in him that he didn’t need to think about it. The feet moved of themselves, no measurable rhythm to their pacing. Any sound his feet made could be ascribed to the wind, to gravity. No human passed here."

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     tipjip (tipjip@bonn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:48:20 JST tipjip

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     @clacke In the later books it becomes a dance that actually has a repetition, but only after an extremely long sequence.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:48:21 JST clacke

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     @tipjip Cool!
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     tipjip (tipjip@bonn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 01:48:23 JST tipjip

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     @clacke Heretics of Dune: She danced well, too. Not the slightest quickly repeatable rhythm entered her movements. There was rhythm but it was an admirably long beat, at least a hundred steps apart. She kept it up while the sun lifted higher and higher. It was almost noon before she fell exhausted to the sand.
     The priests stood and looked out into the desert where Shai-hulud had gone. The stampings of the dance had not summoned Him back. They were forgiven.
     That was how Sheeana’s new life began.