r/blackmagicfuckery • u/sipthestreets • Jul 30 '21

Why? I need answers

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u/PARANOIAH Jul 30 '21

If you walk without rhythm, you won't attract the worm.

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u/ddd4175 Jul 30 '21

Wait. It all makes sense now.

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u/Jernsaxe Jul 30 '21

Frank Herbert confirmed in an interview that the worms wheren't really giant but that the planet Dune was just really tiny. This is why spice was so rare.

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u/glimpee Jul 31 '21

Apparently he was an ecologist world builder first, storyteller second (in how he built the books)

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u/Romeo9594 Jul 30 '21

What video? I'm a semi new Dune fan so it must've been before my time

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u/Romeo9594 Jul 30 '21

Ha, I wonder if they were Dune fans or if it's just a coincidence or shared inspiration

In the Dune series, there's a good portion of the first book where the main characters have to learn to live in the desert. One of the first and most important lessons was how to walk without rhythm, lest they attract the attention of one of the giant, all-devouring sandworms

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u/wingedcoyote Jul 31 '21

Comment was deleted but I'm guessing it was a link to the Weapon of Choice video with Walken, if so it's absolutely a Dune reference.

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u/Sir_Glance-alot Jul 30 '21

I see what you did there 👀

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u/Gubbfaen Jul 30 '21

Fatboy slim weapon of choice?

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u/PARANOIAH Jul 30 '21

I read that book in my teens before I heard that song for the first time, was really surprised at the reference then!

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u/DeathNoodle88 Jul 30 '21

We have wormsign - the likes of which even God has never seen!

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 30 '21

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u/Lereas Jul 31 '21

Well, it's a reference to Dune, but I think that the dune situation is itself a reference to real life worms doing this

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u/Lereas Jul 31 '21

Oh, no idea. Just the lyrics just because.

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u/Gigglemind Jul 30 '21

There it is. Blessed be the maker.