hotlove666 wrote:

>Fred, the quote is from the Browning poetic monologue, not the
>Byron epic, but coincidentally, Clarke misquotes it (in "The Lost
>Worlds of 2001") as "Childe Harold to the Dark Tower came."
>
Thanks a lot for this info! Some future Brakhage scholar will doubtless
thank you too. It's surprising that Brakhage would be reading Clarke,
but not impossible. The real question now is whether he actually
intended a reference to the Browning poem, which it's likely that he
read. Now I'll read it too.

- Fred