From: dahoov2@cox.net   
      
   On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:50:11 -0800, "Rich Davis"   
    wrote:   
      
   >(Arthur C. Clarke was a recluse, and hardly sent autographs through the   
   >mail.)   
   >   
   >I mailed a bookplate to Sri Lanka and he signed it, but that was back in   
   >2002.  The bookplate now rests in my copy of The Collected Stories of Arthur   
   >C. Clarke.   
   >   
      
      
   Yeah; I've heard both before. People I knew got successes and I wrote   
   to Sri Lanka as well... but nothing.  Some got him and others didn't.   
   Maybe he was bi-polar!   
      
   Anyway, he was a talent with an extraordinary mind/imagination and   
   that will be missed.   
      
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