I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from …

Frank Herbert
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I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say Look! I have no hands! But the people all around me say: What are hands? ✨ Frank Herbert (2003). Dune, p.311, Penguin
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I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say Look! I have no hands! But the people all around me say: What are hands? ✨ Frank Herbert (2003). Dune, p.311, Penguin

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