http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/19/sri-lanka-remembering-arthur-c-clarke/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:42:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/19/sri-lanka-remembering-arthur-c-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-1412260 Brando Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:41:32 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/19/sri-lanka-remembering-arthur-c-clarke/#comment-1412260 When I was a child his novels inflamed my imagination and changed my life. I've read them all and they make me believe in the human potential to create a better world, to advance. He also explored the depths of our capacity to make mistakes. I cried upon hearing that he'd died. His imagination has inspired those who will create the future and he will be sorely missed. Rest in Peace. When I was a child his novels inflamed my imagination and changed my life. I’ve read them all and they make me believe in the human potential to create a better world, to advance. He also explored the depths of our capacity to make mistakes. I cried upon hearing that he’d died. His imagination has inspired those who will create the future and he will be sorely missed. Rest in Peace.

]]> http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/19/sri-lanka-remembering-arthur-c-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-1411729 David Blundell Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:09:50 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/03/19/sri-lanka-remembering-arthur-c-clarke/#comment-1411729 As a child I read Treasures of the Indian Ocean by Arthur C. Clarke. While diving from the reefs off the southeast coast he discovered a beautiful place to live, and made it his home ever since. He started his life in Ceylon at that time, later I was also there as a neighbor. Vignette 1: when Sky Lab was falling to Earth he announced to the people of Sri Lanka, that there was little chance that it would fall on their village. It fell on the Australian Outback desert. Vignette 2: during an eclipse of the Sun, Sir Arthur was on the Colombo beach observing the event with his telescope, local people observed the writer in a circle around him. As a child I read Treasures of the Indian Ocean by Arthur C. Clarke. While diving from the reefs off the southeast coast he discovered a beautiful place to live, and made it his home ever since. He started his life in Ceylon at that time, later I was also there as a neighbor. Vignette 1: when Sky Lab was falling to Earth he announced to the people of Sri Lanka, that there was little chance that it would fall on their village. It fell on the Australian Outback desert. Vignette 2: during an eclipse of the Sun, Sir Arthur was on the Colombo beach observing the event with his telescope, local people observed the writer in a circle around him.

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