Thursday, January 04, 2001

Dum Dum Da-Dum: Mysterious Monolith Appears in Seattle Park Many have thought of Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey now that the titular year is upon us, but nobody expects to actually stumble across the movie's famous black monolith. Cheryl Hatch/AP Tuesday: A curious spectator touches the surface of a monolith standing on a grassy knoll in Magnuson Park in Seattle. Seattle residents were a little surprised when a 9-foot-tall steel monolith mysteriously appeared in a city park on the first day of 2001. Denny Sargent couldn't resist humming the theme to 2001 when he walked up to touch the imposing object, which stands like the movie's enigmatic extraterrestrial guardian on a grassy knoll in Magnuson Park. "I feel my intelligence increasing by the moment," he said.

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