CHAPTER 16 - Everyone Loves A Good Dinner Party

Kynes has switched sides, and now we get to play planetary politics at Dinner, as if imperial politics wasn't enough. And we are pretty sure Duke Leto is losing it, or extremely smart. "And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man."