@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
Post #2530053
2026-04-18 23:07 UTC
"the CRT glow
imposing on the body
every reality in monochrome"
Just as the beginning of _Neuromancer_ refers to the sky being the color of a television tuned to a dead channel -- and that color has changed dramatically over the years -- people no longer have a CRT glow when they are typing on social media. The visual image unexpectedly is no longer a part of people's lives.
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@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social 2026-04-18 23:14
"The rockets go up, you see Are they acts? What if if they never came down?" _Little, Big_, a great novel by John Crowley, has an in-world-of-the-book fashionable theory in which acts are compared to rockets; it was a book much discussed in this circle. One of the good things about the whole milieu of English-literature scholarship being blogged about at that time was that it offered a path from fannishness to literary critcism. Of course this passage is also a passage about mortality.