Talk:Mentat
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- In David Lynch's film adaptation of Dune, Piter de Vries takes the drug Sappho to increase his mental acuity, suggesting that drugs are necessary for mentats. There is no indication in the novels that drugs are used, and the idea seems at odds with the later novels' deeper articulation of the nature of the discipline.
Dune explicitly states that Mentats use sappho for this purpose (although not that it is a necessity for them), and that the red-stained lips caused by the substance are a trademark distinction of the class. See the entry for sappho in the glossary.