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Favourite First Lines

posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 07:25am on 27/01/2003
A meme borrowed from [livejournal.com profile] papersky... First lines from favourite novels...

The only one I can remember without checking the original is:

'The sky was the colour of a TV tuned to a blank channel', Neuromance, William Gibson.
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 12:05am on 27/01/2003
Which I always remember via:

"The TV was the colour of a blank channel tuned to Sky."
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 04:26am on 27/01/2003
Which is what I used to introduce a con report of Contrivance, the 1989 Eastercon...
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posted by [personal profile] drplokta at 01:17am on 27/01/2003
Actually, you need to check the original. It's "The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel." Which didn't mean bright blue at the time.
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 02:21am on 27/01/2003
Apparently Gibson was rather amused by this change, and felt it actually added to the book by enhancing the technological imagery he was deliberately using for the "meatspace" sections of the novel.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 09:20am on 27/01/2003
I guess this shows the editing and compression ability of a porr memory. Rats!
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posted by [identity profile] handslive.livejournal.com at 05:37am on 27/01/2003
Heh. Our friend Andrew used to say, "The sky was the colour of a TV tuned to late night CBC."
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posted by [identity profile] nlindq.livejournal.com at 11:33am on 28/01/2003
Neuromancer was the first one to occur to me as well, and I wouldn't consider it to be one of my favourite novels.

I guess the vivid imagery sticks with you.
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