2001: a Poetic-Space Odyssey

"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" proclaims the Dawn of Man & The Monolith From the ancient past to the (retro)futuristic present as the flying bone becomes a satellite in orbit Blue Danube waltz serenades space: the Pan Am space plane gracefully docks with the space station Ligeti’s haunting polyphony envelopes space: Floyd visits The Monolith on the immaculately stark moon Beautifully tragic Khachaturian ballet suite announces the Discovery’s lonely mission to Jupiter Bowman methodically unplugs the homicidal HAL as the psychopathic e-brain sadly sings “Daisy, daisy…” He enters the wormhole in the Monolith orbiting Jupiter travels through infinity at FTL velocity transfixed by the epic irreal journey And then finds himself in a luxury hotel room somewhere in the universe: dying on a bed he sees the Monolith and is transformed into a Star-Child who floats toward Earth What will the Star-Child do?