Reply #15: Did you read my response? [View All]

[RZM]

I said: 'perhaps he was ' . . . I did not indicate that I assumed no purge was going on. But now that you mention it, I generally don't assume a conspiracy when a simpler explanation is available - this seems like a good time to do that, because the simpler explanation came straight from Herbert himself. Those who assume that conspiracies are just as likely as more mundane explanations inevitably spend much of their time in fantasy-land.