Stanley Cup

churlish to notice that it is also our master. Hal And Me ave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial brain. “Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly

optimistic, literally crammed with pictures of things like the brand new Concorde, the Post Office Tower, the Mini, the hovercraft, things that left their mark in the 60s. And, of course, England 66. It was the first—and only—victory of England in the World Cup. They’ve never won it since! There was a real sense of “Look what we’ve achieved in the 1960s!” Journalist: You sound so enthusiastic when talking about the Sixties in London, that’s just incredible. Cathy: It was just amazing! I think Britain was really

the ascetic Moorthy as leader of the local movement. Moorthy is far from perfect. It is moving that his Brahmin instincts still cause him to recoil from the threshold of a pariah household when he must first enter one, and that sipping coffee from a cup offered him by a pariah takes a degree of determination and courage lacking in most higher-caste Brahmins of his time. His outer struggle with the British is complicated by this inner struggle with his own upbringing. We can guess that he may even feel