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SandChigger wrote:(Did someone just "chortle" above?)
Ahem...
One thing that keeps bothering me is how no one else seems to have known about the safe deposit boxes, not Brian (who was supposedly so buddy-buddy with dear ole dad at the end) or Theresa, the new wife. Frank obviously wasn't making anything like regular trips to the bank/S&L to update the contents, or the family around weren't paying attention or didn't bother to find out where he was going. (I wonder if they're not something he did on the spur of the moment one day and maybe forgot about even himself, when his health started failing.)
There's also the question of why it took so long for the S&L to contact the estate lawyers. Establishments like that generally don't lend out safety deposit boxes (two there were, IIRC) gratis. Did FH pay ahead for over a decade? Did they let it slide for a decade because he was a famous writer? But if they knew who he was, why didn't they hear that he had died? Paperwork oversight?
Lots of questions, probably never to be answered.
SandChigger wrote:...or Theresa, the new wife.
SandRider wrote:the issue I'm focusing on right now is not about the notes, or the contents
of the disks - just the Truth of who's hand is on the labels ...
If it is decided that the disks are in fact in Frank's hand, that is atleast
an indication that some form of notes did exist, regardless of how they
were used by The Boys.
If it is decided that the disk labels are not in Frank's hand, that adds to
the argument that the notes (specifically for Dune7) did not exist and the
whole thing is a hoax created and promoted by the HLP.
Seraphan wrote:Those two have laid out too many contradictory stories about the notes, the interview in the audiobook compared to the other stuff they said about it being thousand and thousand of pages, *pfff* yeah right. But doesnt it prove how much of a shitty writter Kevin "Take a Hike" Anderson is that his own imcompetence provides proof that he is not following anything done by Frank?
"Brian, if you want to continue writing in the Dune Universe, hire the absolutely most craptastic writer you can find, and totally ignore, change and mutate as much as you can.
Love, Dad.
p.s. my reason for asking you to do this is so that no one will be able to mistake the difference between my legacy and your lame attempts to cash in on it even more.
GP wrote:I don't see how any of this can reach any kind of definitive conclusion.
Ampoliros wrote:Maybe we're going the wrong way about this: What if the "notes" exist, and all they say is"Brian, if you want to continue writing in the Dune Universe, hire the absolutely most craptastic writer you can find, and totally ignore, change and mutate as much as you can.
Love, Dad.
p.s. my reason for asking you to do this is so that no one will be able to mistake the difference between my legacy and your lame attempts to cash in on it even more.
thinks he has better ideas and can tell a better story than Frank.
SandRider wrote:GP wrote:I don't see how any of this can reach any kind of definitive conclusion.
probably not in my lifetime, of which there ain't much more, and maybe
not in yours. But if Frank Hebert's Dune is in fact the Masterpiece
of American Literature I've claimed it to be, then it will not end here.
Future historians will scour over the evidence, eventually the papers
Frank left behind will be revealed. I see this as groundwork only.
Putting the current evidence in the HLP's face and their on-the-record
responses have already revealed important clues to the Truth.
And I understand this has been discussed before - as I said above, I'm
trying to settle this in my own mind only, using the evidence and thoughts
others have provided here.
SandChigger wrote:Afterthought: SandRider, have you considered that Brian et al. may be truly contemptible and destroy anything that doesn't corroborate their version of reality?
GP wrote:But this is just a discussion board. It's not like any of us are uni profs engaged in research for an upcoming series on the works of literature great Frank Herbert
Chig wrote:have you considered that Brian et al. may be truly contemptible and destroy anything that doesn't corroborate their version of reality?
Ampoliros wrote:Maybe we're going the wrong way about this: What if the "notes" exist, and all they say is"Brian, if you want to continue writing in the Dune Universe, hire the absolutely most craptastic writer you can find, and totally ignore, change and mutate as much as you can.
Love, Dad.
p.s. my reason for asking you to do this is so that no one will be able to mistake the difference between my legacy and your lame attempts to cash in on it even more.
SandRider wrote:absolutely. if I were on their side, I would have already advised that. and it's
likely that if it were up to Keith, they would already be destroyed. Perhaps
Brian and the other actual family members of the HLP value Frank's papers
enough to prevent their wanton destruction. And as it was suggested, we may
see the notes/papers/etc in a published form after the current cash cow has been
milked dry.
SandChigger wrote:A lost like tears in the rain....)