“The Fremen were supreme in the quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen” – which is the self imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.” | Dune by Frank Herbert
One of the fun parts about great works of fiction is the intricacies of language and phrases.
Spannungsbogen is a lovely meld of willpower and the gap between stimulus and response.
I could do with more spannungsbogen too.
