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

[Douglas Holm]

Could you give a link to the Kubrick blog? 

> On Jun 28, 2017, at 8:26 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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, Stan
>> A stately astrodome decree
>> While Art, the s.f. writer, ran
>> Through plots incredible to man,
>> In search of solvency....
>> So twice five miles of Elstree ground
>> With sets and props were girdled round...
>> A savage place! as eerie and enchanted
>> As ere beneath a flickering arc was haunted
>> By child-star wailing for her demon mother...
>> For months meandering with a mazy motion
>> Through stacks of scripts the desperate writer ran
>> Then reached that plot incredible to man
>> And sank, enSCUBA'd in the Indian Ocean.
>> And midst the tumult Kubrick heard from far
>> Accountants' voices, prophesying war!
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