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QuickSpore t1_j272sa5 wrote

Reply to comment by RegulusRemains in The 1984 Dune film makes a lot more sense if The Spice is referred to as Space Cocaine instead. by neoengel

Probably not the inspiration though.

Dune was first published in 1965. Back then Saddam was a minor revolutionary figure in jail while the anti-Ba’athist Abdul Salam Arif was president and functional dictator of Iraq. Back then Saddam was a known, but rare, Arabic name.

Saddam Hussein wouldn’t rise to prominence until the 1968 coup where his cousin Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr became president and Saddam became vice President.

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RegulusRemains t1_j2788wz wrote

Oh that's why the epiphany stuck. I thought it predicted the future haha. Literally thought this book was a prediction of our future.

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