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Re: A literary and scientific giant dies

heikal — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:26:17 -0000

RIP Arthur C. Clarke

Re: A literary and scientific giant dies

mathewi — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:32:02 -0000

I know what you mean, Nav.

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Re: A literary and scientific giant dies

scrawledinwax — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:28:27 -0000

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.

Re: A literary and scientific giant dies

timbo12 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:12:55 -0000

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.