2001: A Flash Odyssey
Apr. 11th, 2011 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinSo once again I've got about 3,000 words of flash written in a day. Due to the fact that these stories are more varied in length than the ones I wrote last week, I've got eight of them. That's enough to get me through the rest of this week and Thursday of next week. I might very well turn out another one or two later on, but my brain's pretty barren at the moment and we're approaching my Designated Preferred Knock-Off Time.
In order to add a finishing touch to one of the stories, I need some help from someone who has a copy of 2001 A Space Odyssey (the novel, not the film) handy to help me nail down some quotes. The internet is full of 2001 quotes, but they're all from the movie. I have a copy of the book somewhere, but I'm not sure where. It's the sort of book I'm likely enough to have the urge to read in the future that I wouldn't mind throwing a couple of bucks at it on Kindle to get this right, but unfortunately they want $19.95 for it. (Insert standard e-book pricing rant here.)
Aaaaaaaaanyway... there's the scene that's ubiquitous in pop culture with the "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."/"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." exchange. While I know the sequence of events is different in the book (Dave doesn't get trapped outside the pod bay doors) I need for someone who has the book to verify if HAL's line or a similar line appears in the book, or "I can't let you do that, Dave.", or other words to similar effect... and what the words are. Basically, some negative statement from HAL 9000 taken from the book. Context is not terribly important, just the fact that it's a line of HAL telling a human "um... how about no?" The key thing here is that I need it to be an exact quote from the book rather than the movie, and because the movie quotes are so pervasive they're what I come up with when I try to remember the book.
In order to add a finishing touch to one of the stories, I need some help from someone who has a copy of 2001 A Space Odyssey (the novel, not the film) handy to help me nail down some quotes. The internet is full of 2001 quotes, but they're all from the movie. I have a copy of the book somewhere, but I'm not sure where. It's the sort of book I'm likely enough to have the urge to read in the future that I wouldn't mind throwing a couple of bucks at it on Kindle to get this right, but unfortunately they want $19.95 for it. (Insert standard e-book pricing rant here.)
Aaaaaaaaanyway... there's the scene that's ubiquitous in pop culture with the "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."/"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." exchange. While I know the sequence of events is different in the book (Dave doesn't get trapped outside the pod bay doors) I need for someone who has the book to verify if HAL's line or a similar line appears in the book, or "I can't let you do that, Dave.", or other words to similar effect... and what the words are. Basically, some negative statement from HAL 9000 taken from the book. Context is not terribly important, just the fact that it's a line of HAL telling a human "um... how about no?" The key thing here is that I need it to be an exact quote from the book rather than the movie, and because the movie quotes are so pervasive they're what I come up with when I try to remember the book.
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