arthur c clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke Writes ‘2001’
Arthur C. Clarke sits at his desk in the Hotel Chelsea he’s wearing a crimson paisley sarong and a pair of beaten up thongs his fingers jackhammer the keys of a portable typewriter each thrust and parry of his and Stanley’s conversations are focused into movement on paper. The story is being written. He can…
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Arthur Charles Clarke
How many fathers can one child have? You have your biological father, sure. But, if you were like me and that man was not present in your formative years, who would take his place? I was raised by my grandparents, and while they provided a roof over my head and an education, they did not…
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A Poetry Reading…
These are my poems, “Higher, Orville, Higher!” and “I Hadn’t Cried in 20 Years” recorded by new as the duet they were intended to be:
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“I Hadn’t Cried in Twenty Years”
Walking through the science museum in Kensington, you stop once more in front of the stack of wrought iron and intricately machined cogs and gears of Mr. Babbage’s computing engine and wonder what he would think of this modern world of vacuum tubes and television. Often, as you’d wander down the marble halls, you’d look…
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Dredgings From the Sketchbooks
Sharing some of the things I have in my sketchbooks:
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The Ultimate Trip
I was around 10 years old when I first saw 2001: A Space Odyssey on my local PBS station, KCET Los Angeles. I was flipping through the channels when I stumbled upon the sight of a giant room awash in red light within which, moving along to the sound of classical music, a round vehicle…
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A Merry Christmas
“Amen.” In their Father’s name the explorer priests broke fast orbiting a long dead stellar mass. The researchers found a hidden cache on a world now turned to ash. Inside were artifacts, artwork and knowledge from alien minds, but minds all the same. They had beauty, they had love. They tried to save some of…
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Discovery 2
For anyone who has read Arthur C. Clarke’s Odyssey series of books, you would know that the Americans were building a second spacecraft to rendezvous with the original Discovery 1, only to book passage with the Russians when they found out that the Discovery 1 would plow right into Io. In this drawing I am imagining…
The Numinous Cosmos 