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Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib)
Hayt is the revived flesh—or ghola—of Paul Atreides’s former sword master, Duncan Idaho. Hayt is sent to Paul by the Tleilaxu who, in conspiracy with the Guild, revived the ghola in order to destroy Paul. In every respect, Hayt looks just like Duncan Idaho, except for his mechanical eyes. His resemblance to Idaho tempts Paul with memories of his past, and so he accepts the ghola even though he suspects the ghola is a pawn conditioned by his enemies. As Paul struggles to decide whether the ghola is Hayt or Duncan Idaho, Hayt himself struggles with his identity, at times being flooded with memories of the past, and at times acting under Tleilaxu orders programmed into his brain. For instance, Bijaz imbeds Hayt with the order to kill Paul as soon as Chani dies. However, when this moment comes, Paul jolts Hayt’s memories of his former self, and Hayt transforms fully into Duncan Idaho, protecting Paul and obeying his every command. After Paul runs into the desert to die, Duncan Idaho and Alia begin a relationship with the implication that they will continue the empire.
Hayt (Duncan Idaho) Quotes in Dune Messiah
The Dune Messiah quotes below are all either spoken by Hayt (Duncan Idaho) or refer to Hayt (Duncan Idaho) . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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Where was Idaho in this shaped-to-measure flesh? It wasn’t flesh…it was a shroud in fleshly shape! [Idaho’s] ghost stared out of metal eyes. Two beings stood side by side in this revenant flesh. One was a threat with its force and nature hidden behind unique veils.
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Chapter 7
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She should have understood long ago this similarity between the spice and the ghola. Melange was valuable, but it exacted a price—addiction. It added years to a life—decades for some—but it was still just another way to die.
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Chapter 10
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Alia studied the steel balls which were his eyes: no human expression there. His words had carried a reassuring intensity […] a thing Duncan Idaho might have said. Had the Tleilaxu fashioned their ghola better than they knew—or was this mere sham, part of his conditioning?
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Chapter 15
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“[Paul] was a creature who had developed firmly into one pattern. He’d destroy himself before changing into the opposite of that pattern. That had been the way with the Tleilaxu kwisatz haderach. It’d be the way with this one. And then…the ghola.”
Chapter 23
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Hayt / Idaho / Hayt / Idaho…He became a motionless chain of relative existence, singular, alone. Old memories flooded his mind. He marked them, adjusted them to new understandings, made a beginning at the integration of a new awareness.
Ahhh, that’s why they gave me Idaho as a ghola, to let me discover how much the recreation is like the original. But now—full restoration…at their price. I’d be a Tleilaxu forevermore. And Chani…chained to the same fate by a threat to our children, exposed once more to the Qizarate’s plotting.
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Hayt (Duncan Idaho) Quotes in Dune Messiah
The Dune Messiah quotes below are all either spoken by Hayt (Duncan Idaho) or refer to Hayt (Duncan Idaho) . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
Quotes
Where was Idaho in this shaped-to-measure flesh? It wasn’t flesh…it was a shroud in fleshly shape! [Idaho’s] ghost stared out of metal eyes. Two beings stood side by side in this revenant flesh. One was a threat with its force and nature hidden behind unique veils.
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Chapter 7
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She should have understood long ago this similarity between the spice and the ghola. Melange was valuable, but it exacted a price—addiction. It added years to a life—decades for some—but it was still just another way to die.
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Chapter 10
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Alia studied the steel balls which were his eyes: no human expression there. His words had carried a reassuring intensity […] a thing Duncan Idaho might have said. Had the Tleilaxu fashioned their ghola better than they knew—or was this mere sham, part of his conditioning?
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Chapter 15
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“[Paul] was a creature who had developed firmly into one pattern. He’d destroy himself before changing into the opposite of that pattern. That had been the way with the Tleilaxu kwisatz haderach. It’d be the way with this one. And then…the ghola.”
Chapter 23
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Hayt / Idaho / Hayt / Idaho…He became a motionless chain of relative existence, singular, alone. Old memories flooded his mind. He marked them, adjusted them to new understandings, made a beginning at the integration of a new awareness.
Ahhh, that’s why they gave me Idaho as a ghola, to let me discover how much the recreation is like the original. But now—full restoration…at their price. I’d be a Tleilaxu forevermore. And Chani…chained to the same fate by a threat to our children, exposed once more to the Qizarate’s plotting.
