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A literary and scientific giant dies

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

The death of Arthur C. Clarke didn’t exactly come as a surprise when I found out about it earlier today (via Twitter, of course). After all, the man was 90 years old and had suffered from post-polio disorder for decades. Toward the end he looked a lot like the wheelchair-bound fi ... Continue reading »

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Tim Burden
1 year ago

I'm reading it here first.

I have him twice in my Facebook quotes, and 2001 is listed as one of my favourite movies. He and Freeman Dyson and E.O. Wilson and Douglas Hofstadter kept my puny teenaged brain from shriveling up.

Once again, we will not see the Final Theorem.

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scrawledinwax
1 year ago

I remember feeling almost overwhelmed when I finished 2001 - it was as if my brain has been asked to consider things that were somehow beyond its reach.

But the Clarke moment that will always stick with me - and made a whooshing sound when I gestured toward it on Twitter - was the end of his short story "The Nine Billion Names of God". I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but it just seemed so perfectly understated that it's lingered somewhere in my mind ever since.

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