NP: 2001/Clarke's Xanadu (Jerk must know about this)

[Mark Thibodeau]

I believe this is included in one of the books Clarke wrote about the
process of creating 2001, but I'm not sure which (there are about a half
dozen!).

Either way, I'll post it on my Kubrick blog, so thanks!

Jerky

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> In reading a little about Xanadu on wikipedia, I find this parody Arthur
> C. Clarke wrote about trying to adapt the screenplay. Hadn't seen before,
> figured maybe some of y'all hadn't either:
>
> For MGM did Kubrick, StanA stately astrodome decreeWhile Art, the s.f.
> writer, ranThrough plots incredible to man,In search of solvency....So
> twice five miles of Elstree groundWith sets and props were girdled
> round...A savage place! as eerie and enchantedAs ere beneath a flickering
> arc was hauntedBy child-star wailing for her demon mother...For months
> meandering with a mazy motionThrough stacks of scripts the desperate
> writer ranThen reached that plot incredible to manAnd sank, enSCUBA'd in
> the Indian Ocean.And midst the tumult Kubrick heard from farAccountants'
> voices, prophesying war!
>
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