Both Uses of
perpetual
in
Dune
- There was danger, he felt, of overrunning himself, and he had to hold onto his awareness of the present, sensing the blurred deflection of experience, the flowing moment, the continual solidification of that-which-is into the perpetual-was.†
Book 2
- Out on the desert, she knew, it already was red nightfall, but here in the cavern hall was perpetual twilight, a gray vastness thronged with people come to see her risk her life.†
Book 2 *
Definition:
-
(perpetual) continuing forever without change
or:
occurring so frequently it seems continual