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From: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, HAL 9000!
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In article <5dlom2$iu9@bolt.Lakeheadu.Ca>,
William Burns <wburns@geraldton.lakeheadu.ca> wrote:
>At the time, I was more interested in reading than watching.  2001 was
>the first film I had seen in years, and I only saw it because I had
>read the novel and wanted to see the film translation of the Star
>Child destroying the Earth.  That it never happened was a huge
>disappointment.

Actually, the Star Child didn't destroy Earth in the book either; the
wording is ambiguous, but Clarke says that was never the intent and he
would have reworded that passage if he'd noticed the ambiguity.
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