Sunday my wife and I bought tickets for a reading, at the Camden Opera House, of short stories, that are broadcast on NPR's program, Selective Shorts. If you have never heard the show it is wonderful. Most of the time the stories are read by celebrities. At this event one of the readers was the actor Keir Dullea, reading the Jack London short story "Make Westing". It was a great story of a sea captain that had a single minded task of getting around Cape Horn no matter how many lives he endangered. A great story, but the story that was most compelling to me was read by Isaiah Sheffer who is usually the host on the Selective Short program. The story called " The Diver" , written by a Mainer Lewis Robinson, had kind of a dark side to it. The story is about a carefree boating trip that turns into a surreal power struggle. It was a wonderful two hours. The one thing that I was looking for at the end of the evening was to ask a question of Keir Dullea. I wanted to ask him to repeat his most famous line from one of his movies "2001 A Space Odyssey.
"Open the podbay doors Hal"
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