Can you remember your first taste of spice?” “It tasted like cinnamon.” “But never twice the same,” he said. “It’s like life — it presents a differen… - Frank Herbert

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Can you remember your first taste of spice?” “It tasted like cinnamon.” “But never twice the same,” he said. “It’s like life — it presents a different face each time you take it. Some hold that the spice produces a learned-flavor reaction. The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable — slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.

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About Frank Herbert

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (8 October 1920 – 11 February 1986) was an American science-fiction writer, most famous for his Dune novels.

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Birth Name: Frank Patrick Herbert
Alternative Names: Franklin Patrick Herbert Franklin Herbert Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. Jr. Frank Patrick Herbert Jr. Franklin Herbert Jr. Franklin Patrick Herbert

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The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable — slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.

Can you remember your first taste of spice?” “It tasted like cinnamon.

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