>Clarke also riffed on the story's nuke threat subtext from time to
>time (i.e., the threat to civilization and therefore, the super ET's
>elaborate plans) via satellite from his Sri Lankan home/think
>tank/fortress of solitude.
From a piece on the making of 2001:
>In February 1964, over lunch with Roger Caras (who was to become the
>public relations manager for 2001), Kubrick revealed his favoured
>project - a film on extraterrestrials. When he told Caras that he
>was reading "everything by everybody," Caras urged him not to waste
>his time but go straight to the best - who was, in his opinion,
>Arthur C. Clarke. "But I understand he's a recluse, a nut who lives
>in a tree in India someplace," replied Kubrick. Caras patiently
>informed him that he was neither a recluse nor a nut, and that he
>lived quietly in Sri Lanka, not India.
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