A criança em mim fica feliz com essa notícia. O velho só dá um sorriso sardônico.

E tem essa coincidência divertida:

these days the original Dune is looking more and more like an extended parable about the geopolitics of oil...."the spice must flow", indeed...

Let's not forget the spooky parallels with the young man from a rich spice-trading family running off into the desert, getting religion and calling for a jihad. And getting his men to fly an ornithopter into a spice refinery full of people. Interestingly, the translation of al-Qaeda as "the base" is, I think, "base" as in "the base of the pillar", or Usul.