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Dune: Who Is Thufir Hawat?

Written by Bisma Fida
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Stephen McKinley Henderson's Thufir Hawat is one of Paul's companion-teachers on Caladan and an intriguing minor character in Dune.

The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam had no sooner arrived at Castle Caladan than she brought up the Orange Catholic Bible's commandment against thinking machines. A Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit — a powerful secretive all-female order — she is committed to, among other things, training and honing human talents, sifting humans from people by testing for them, and therefore preventing the enslavement of "men" by thinking machines.

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