An epigraph at the beginning of each chapter. They’re usually from classics/mythology (i.e. Watership Down), but then Dune has epigraphs from in-universe books and such. It just makes that universe seem that much bigger and mysterious, that there are all these books in it that we only have tiny excerpts from.
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An epigraph at the beginning of each chapter. They’re usually from classics/mythology (i.e. Watership Down), but then Dune has epigraphs from in-universe books and such. It just makes that universe seem that much bigger and mysterious, that there are all these books in it that we only have tiny excerpts from.