tubularity

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Cal writes:

"Is there some similarity between this line of Gibson's (from NEUROMANCER):

        "They sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a
        dead channel..."

and this from COL49:

        "Oedipa stood in the living room, stared at by the dead eye
        of the TV tube..."

???"

And don't forget the immortal opening of Billie Holliday's autobiography
(which I don't remember exactly and I am quoting incorrectly)  - "I knew once
I was able to stop watching TV that kicking junk would be no problem"  or
something to that effect.  I am relying on a poor memory of something read
many years ago and I don't have a copy of LADY SINGS THE BLUES.

Ron Churgin