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

[Mark Thibodeau]

www.kubricku.blogspot.com

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com> wrote:

> 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, 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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