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Subject: AW: [Leica] prototype Leak! kubrick and clarke
From: Michael Dienert <MDienert@foq.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:45:26 -0000

hi jem,

if you're interested, try to read the novel '2001' by arthur c. clarke.
if i got film and book right, the monolith just lift the monkeys to the
next step of evolution: men. and later it lifts men to the next form of
being....and that second lift is shown rather colorful in the film.

michael

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Jeremy Kime [SMTP:jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk]
> Gesendet am:	Freitag, 23. Juli 1999 08:17
> An:	'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Betreff:	RE: [Leica] prototype Leak!
> 
> Mark,
> I fisrt watched '2001' on an all night coach journey from England to
> Spain,
> as I was the back of the coach and the television was at the front I
> got to
> hear next to nothing of the dialogue and sound and so I never
> understood the
> movie.
> Several years later I caught it on the TV at home, you can imagine my
> recation... No matter how much I turned up the volume I still couldn't
> understand it any more than I had previously!
> 
> My, how I love mysteries...
> 
> Jem
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Mark Rabiner [SMTP:mrabiner@concentric.net]
> > 
> > Thank God no M7 my Cardio Vascular system would not be up for
> anymore
> > Stanley Kubrick.
> > Instead of a tall dull black backlit obelisk we have a shiny black
> Leica
> > M6.
> > More my style.
> > I never did figure out what those monkeys were doing.
> > Mark Rabiner