"McKie peered at the shimmering un-presence of the Caleban, ‘Fanny Mae suggested it? He murmured. And he thought, Fanny Mae determines her own brand of reality from what she sees of these mysterious connectives: a special perception tailored to her particular energy consumption.'"
Whipping Star, Frank Herbert
“Time, for the Caleban1, is a position on a line, McKie reminded himself. I must look for the subtly differences; they are all this creature sees.”
1 This particular Caleban went by the name of Fannie Mae.
"Who can say how a Caleban speaks? Their words come at you like the corrusating of a nine-ribbon Sojeu barber pole. The insensitive say such words radiate. I say the Caleban speaks. When words are sent, is that not speach? Send me your words, Caleban, and I will tell the world of your wisdon."
Excerpt from Conversations with a Caleban, Masarard
Whipping Star, Frank Herbert
“…throughout the Galaxy was months-or days or minutes- away. When the last mysterious entities known as Calebans died, so would all those who had ever traveled by a Caleban “jumpdoor”-and the jumpdoors were the universal means on travel, with every intelligent being on every planet using them constantly.
The Caleban had to be kept alive-but it was under contract to a psychotic millionaire who was subjecting it to systematic, damaging torture. McKie and Furuneo of the Bureau of Sabotage had to outwit her-if they could stay alive one enough!”
The Whipping Star, Frank Herbert, Berkley Medallion Books, 1970
