All 11 Uses of
nexus
in
Dune
- She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns—endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.†
Book 1 *
- Somewhere this night he had passed a decision-nexus into the deep unknown.†
Book 2
- And what he saw was a time nexus within this cave, a boiling of possibilities focused here, wherein the most minute action—the wink of an eye, a careless word, a misplaced grain of sand—moved a gigantic lever across the known universe.†
Book 2
- But Paul still felt the nexus-boiling of this cave, still remembered the prescient visions of himself dead under a knife.†
Book 2
- Variable piled on variable—that was why this cave lay as a blurred nexus in his path.†
Book 2
- His entire future was becoming like a river hurtling toward a chasm — the violent nexus beyond which all was fog and clouds.†
Book 3
- The future — the gray-cloud-future — with its feeling that the entire universe rolled toward a boiling nexus hung around him like a phantom world.†
Book 3
- And he sampled the time-winds, sensing the turmoil, the storm nexus that now focused on this moment place.†
Book 3
- Paul, aware of some of this from the way the time nexus boiled, understood at last why he had never seen Fenring along the webs of prescience.†
Book 3
- This could only mean they saw a nexus, a meeting place of countless delicate decisions, beyond which the path was hidden from the prescient eye.†
Book A3 -
- It was a known fact that Guild navigators could predict no way to take control of the spice without producing just such a nexus.†
Book A3 -
Definition:
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(nexus) an important connection; or a place where things connect or come together