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Ujks Even In The 1900s, Humans Were Obsessed With Photos Of Dogs In Clothes85 cubic feet of Arthur C. Clarkes papers, shipped from his home in Sri Lanka. Including a high-school notebook, where the young Clarke rated the science fiction stories he read. And an early draft of Clarkes 2001: A Space Odyssey. Over at Smithsonian Magazine, Bruce Sterling talks about poring over these papers, and seeing how the conversations between Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick shaped the development of 2001. One choice tidbit: As worked together, conjuring up the novel and the film, correspondence reveals a preoccupation withthe Cube later transmuted into the Monolith . Responding to Clarkes suggestion in 1966 that the Cube communicate directly with the man-apes who would one day populate the film, Kubrick instead advocates an enigmatic presence:We see only the hypnotic image appear and the spellbound faces of the man-apes.Read more about the Clarke Papersover at Smithsonian Magazine, and start planning that road trip. Books stanley travel mug Daily Newsletter stanley flasks You May Also Like mugs stanley io9BooksComics Srbe You Can Shoot Up-Close Artsy or Far-Away Stalker With This 16.7x Zoom Lens
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