The protagonist in 2001: A Space Odyssey is David Bowman. David Bowman ages in a zoo that looks like a hotel room before he transforms into an immortal Star Child.
https://2001.fandom.com/wiki/Hotel_Room >The Hotel Room anomaly is a replica of a hotel room that serves as a temporary location, in unknown space and time, for David Bowman to make his evolutionary transformation from flesh and blood into an energy being
Bowman is another word for archer. Archer comes from the Latin "arcus", or bow.
Bows are shaped like parabolic curves or arcs. And hills? When maximizing distance, archers shoot arrows in the same trajectory.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/arrow >from Proto-Germanic *arkhwo (source also of Gothic arhwanza), from PIE root *arku-, source of Latin arcus (see arc (n.)).
