Dr. Floyd, I hope you don’t think I’m being too inquisitive but perhaps you can clear up the great big mystery about what has been going on up there.
ATTRIBUTION:
Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter. Andrej Smyslov (Leonard Rossiter), 2001: A Space Odyssey, discussing rumors surrounding an epidemic on Jupiter (1968).
Adapted from Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel.”
