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22407028 No.22407028 [Reply] [Original]

The sky above the port was the color of a TV that had gone off the air

>> No.22407037

>>22407028
Cool line but the rest of the book is utter shit

>> No.22407038

>>22407028
Fuck off, Case.

>> No.22407069

Kino line desu

>> No.22407074

>>22407028
Neuromancer?

>> No.22407122
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22407122

>>22407028

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune must want to get married.

>> No.22407524

>>22407028
Lolita. She was on fire. Loins. Don’t sin. Lo-lee-ta. The tongue contains palates, exactly three. She was low, down there, four feet below a sock. She played with dollies at school. She spelt Dolores with dotted lines. But in my arms I could always… Loli ya!

>> No.22407555

>>22407122
>want to get married.
at least write the real line. "must be in want of a wife"

>> No.22407613

>>22407037
>Cool line
meh

>> No.22407714
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22407714

>The sky above the port was the color of a crashed Microsoft computer screen

>> No.22407720

>>22407028
tune to a dead channel*
(it means grey btw)

>> No.22407730

>>22407714
>The sky above the port was the color of a blue screen in Windows 95

>> No.22407736
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22407736

>writes a 10 page introduction to explain what he means by that

>> No.22407749

>>22407028

It's a creative use of language, but at the same time it's depressing to think that (relatively new) tech is being psychologically associated with something as ancient as human observation of the sky.

>>22407555

I never understood that line. I assume that the actual intent is that such a man should get married/society expects him to marry, but it could also be read as the rich bachelor being lucky for the fact of not being locked into some nagging wife?

>> No.22407791

>>22407749
>depressing to think that (relatively new) tech is being psychologically associated with something as ancient as human observation of the sky.
Is that not the purpose of the line?

>> No.22407825

>>22407791

Taking the sentence by itself (and out of context), it sounds (to me) more like he just wanted to describe the sky in an unusual and creative way, not make some clever criticism of technology. Just because the sky is drab doesn't automatically imply that the image-vehicle being used to describe the sky -TV static, television-is being criticized. But I can see how it could be read that way.

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>>22407028
>and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out

>> No.22407927

Is this book kino or overrated trash /lit/izens? Considering reading this to get over my reading slog.

>> No.22407932

>>22407028
is Stirner cool in this book?

>> No.22407939

>>22407028
I am the liquor

>> No.22407977
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22407977

>>22407028
the sky above the port had the DVD logo floating

>> No.22408011

>>22407927
i hated it, the opening line is as good as it gets lol

>> No.22408080

>>22407749
>but it could also be read as the rich bachelor being lucky for the fact of not being locked into some nagging wife?
No, "in want of" pretty clearly means there's a hole in his life that can only be filled by a wife. The line is, however, tongue in cheek

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22408086

>"In truth I know not why I am so sad. You say it wearies you, it wearies me."

>> No.22408092

Do they mean tv static or vcr play screen blue?

>> No.22408097

>>22408092
Static, vcr doesn't go off the air

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22408134

>>22408097
What about when they did this and went booooooooooooooooop

>> No.22408139

>>22408097
Neither do TVs. Broadcast stations go on and off the air. TVs either receive or they don't. They never broadcast. Modern TVs can send data packets upstream, but that is still not on air broadcast.

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>>22408134
And before that went like this

>> No.22408161

>>22408139
vcrs don't even go off the air colloqially

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>>22408161
Most people connected their coax into the vcr and another from the vcr into the television. The best vcr I had would blue screen if it detected static because it was less annoying.

>> No.22408187 [DELETED] 

You'll have to pay quite a bit more for me to participate further in this thread.

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>I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider’d how much depended upon what they were then doing;–that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;–and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost;–Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,–I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that in which the reader is likely to see me.

>> No.22408272

>>22408161
Yeah, I know. We have to wade through a sea of tards. I just let it ride for the most part. I'll judge someone, though. If they tell me that their TV went off the air then they have branded themselves.

>> No.22408327

>>22408272
r u taking my tv offf the air again bro?