03 August 2007 | Kubrick, Dr Strangelove, Doomsday Men | Post a comment
And as a postscript to Strangeloves, there’s a really great page of links to everything and anything to do with Stanley Kubrick here.
Enjoy.
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Homo sapiens is the only species that knows it will die. The thought obsesses us. From the earliest marks made on cave walls to our most sublime works of art, the fear of death haunts our every creation. And in the middle of the twentieth century, human beings became the first species to reach that pinnacle of evolution – the point at which it could engineer its own extinction.
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