{"id":1174,"date":"2023-02-28T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2025-06-17T20:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:52:30","slug":"astounding-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Astounding Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Har lige l\u00e6st Arthur C. Clarkes Astounding Days<\/em> fra 1989. Undertitlen “A Science Fictional Autobiography” d\u00e6kker over, at Clarke tager afs\u00e6t i sin ungdoms l\u00e6sning af SF-magasiner s\u00e5som Astounding<\/em>: Han er simpelthen dykket ned i de gamle blade igen og bruger historierne som udgangspunkt for anekdoter om sit liv, bekendtskaber, andre forfattere – eller hvad den enkelte historie nu lige giver anledning til at mindes. Det er en sjov model for en selvbiografi, velegnet hvis man ikke orker den store forkromede kronologiske gennemgang.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I kapitel 29 forener Clarke adskillige personer fra min interessesf\u00e6re i et kapitel om Wernher von Braun:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who knew him only from TV appearances, or identified him with Dr Strangelove,* may be surprised to know that he was full of fun and had a great sense of humour – though it was once tested to the breaking point at a party where some tactless person played Tom Lehrer’s brilliant song, with its satirical refrain<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n    If the rocket goes up, who cares vhere it comes down?<\/em>
\n    That’s not <\/em>my department, says Wernher von Braun<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clarke citerer vist linjerne en anelse forkert, men ikke p\u00e5 meningsforstyrrende m\u00e5de. Stjernen efter “Strangelove” henviser til denne fodnote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanley Kubrick once said to me, “Tell Wernher I wasn’t getting at him.” I never did, because (a) I didn’t believe it (b) even if Stanley wasn’t, Peter Sellers certainly was.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Og til slut:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, although it is a painful subject (recently reopened by the declassification of the “Paperclip” files) I do not believe I am doing a disservice to the memory of a good friend, if I close this chapter with words which, for the sake of Truth and History, I believe he would have wished to have on record:<\/em>
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0“No – I never knew what was happening in the concentration camps. But I suspected it, and in my position I could have found out. I didn’t, and I despise myself for it.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tankev\u00e6kkende, p\u00e5 flere m\u00e5der.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En anden fodnote i bogen fort\u00e6ller os at “cybersquatting”-f\u00e6nomenet havde en forl\u00f8ber hundrede \u00e5r f\u00f8r internettet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was once a popular English literary journal called <\/em>The Nineteenth Century. As the crucial year 1901 approached, the editor was annoyed to find that some cultured kidnapper had registered the title <\/em>The Twentieth Century and was holding it to ransom<\/em>.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He was out of luck. The magazine became <\/em>The Nineteenth Century – and After.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I det h\u00f8jst usandsynlige tilf\u00e6lde at jeg selv nogensinde skulle skrive en selvbiografi, tror jeg jeg ville v\u00e6lge et lignende uforpligtende format, som det Clarke benytter her. Jeg kan godt lide den flyvske hoppen omkring, med de uventede associationer og sm\u00e5opdagelser der f\u00f8lger med. Som Clarke ogs\u00e5 skriver:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chief pleasure of browsing lies in the unexpected discoveries one makes – I would use the word “serendipitous”, if ti wasn’t so badly overworked, and my Wordstar Dictionary knew how to spell it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeg havde ikke h\u00f8rt om bogen, f\u00f8r jeg fandt den i et antikvariat for nylig. Jeg n\u00e6vnte for antikvarboghandleren, at jeg som teenager skrev et fanbrev til Clarke og fik et svar. Da jeg forlod butikken en halv times tid senere, sagde han at han var glad for, at det var mig der k\u00f8bte bogen, for “en del af det at drive et antikvariat er at s\u00f8rge for at b\u00f8gerne f\u00e5r et godt hjem”. Det er en boghandler efter mit hoved!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Har lige l\u00e6st Arthur C. Clarkes Astounding Days fra 1989. Undertitlen “A Science Fictional Autobiography” d\u00e6kker over, at Clarke tager afs\u00e6t i sin ungdoms l\u00e6sning af SF-magasiner s\u00e5som Astounding: Han er simpelthen dykket ned i de gamle blade igen og bruger historierne som udgangspunkt for anekdoter om sit liv, bekendtskaber, andre forfattere – eller hvad … <\/p>\n

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