He also referred to his 90th birthday as his 90th orbit around the Sun. Harry
On 18/3/2008 9:48 PM, Jones Beene wrote: One of the more interesting obits for Arthur C. Clarke was essentially under the headline that he "Dies Tomorrow"... ... which is a curiosity of his residency in Sri Lanka, where was "already tomorrow" when the story broke in the USA. "Somehow one can¹t help but think that the timing of the thing would have pleased him: that for so many of us that would report on his passing, from the perspective of date, we¹d be reporting on something still to occur." Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in 1956, lured by his interest in marine diving - which he said was as close as he could get to the weightless feeling of space. ³I¹m perfectly operational underwater,² he once said. He had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome.
