SyntheticStars
Dune by Frank Herbert
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A White Merc With Fins, by James Hawes and, this is one of my favourite passages from it:
"I hate totally f***ed-up people because they are boring in bed and out, they are all fixated, and nothing is as boring as fixation, in bed or out: it is like watching some film about some MAF (Mad As F**k) person, once they are actually and definitely MAF they get boring very quickly, a Primal Scream, every Harvey Keitel doing his Primal Whimper, can only raise your hackles for thirty seconds, then it just gets boring, because it says nothing, it cannot say anything you can understand, except maybe goodbye goodbye goodbye.
On the other hand, totally unf***ed-up people are also boring. They do not know the meaning of danger, but everything that is exciting is somehow dangerous (not the other way around, by the way). They think the world is by and large and broadly arranged for their benefit, their ambitions are so modest that they are almost bound to be fulfilled, they can buy bungalows beside dioxin plants and snore the pelmeted sleep of the terminally content.
No, give me people who are slightly f***ed up any day, people who are just f***ed up enough to show they can see all the crap about, but not so f***ed up they are stuck in it, like rabbits in headlights. Give me real people."