His plan has good points and bad points...as any plan would at this stage. A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept. - Frank Herbert

A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.

I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?

"Power and fear," he said. "The tools of statecraft."

Tell me of thine eyes
And I will tell thee of thy heart.
Tell me of thy feet
And I will tell thee of thy hands.
Tell me of thy sleeping
And I will tell thee of thy waking.
Tell me of thy desires
And I will tell thee of thy need.