Blue is the color of a dead channel

[twincityhacker]

Anyone remember the time that I found a description in two diffrent fanfics that had a insignificant detail as the same thing and the detail was cannon? Or that time when I thought I saw the same setence in two diffrent fanfics in two diffrent fandoms but it turned out to be very similar sentences?

Does anyone remember what I was trying to prove? Because I think I may have found a similar thing in two diffrent published books.

Okay, during the unending road trip, I brought along Neuromancer, by William Gibson. I think one of the first sentences in the book is describes how the sky was the color of a television set to a dead channel.

And the other day, I was reading Neverwhere, By Neil Gaimen. In this book the line is "The sky was the the perfect untroubled blue as a television screen, set to a dead channel."

Wacky, huh? But do to the decade or more gap between the two books, I'm thinking that Gaimen might had read Neuromancer, thus picking up the description. So it probably doesn't count towards what ever I was trying to prove... I think it was a collective creative eather? A global sub-concious? How that life is a huge, poorly cast B-Movie?

The last one really doesn't make too much sense, but have you ever gone down the street and over hear a stranger that sounds just like your cousin? Or real look-alikes? Just proves that the Creator had to cast the same people in diffrent roles.

Okay, so maybe the last is just my parniod fantasy. But maybe the previous two? I wish I could rememember...

Comments

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

It's probably just a nod to Gibson. The line is fairly famous in science fiction circles; heck, it's said on Prisoners of Gravity tons of times. Judging from the difference in the lines, it may have been used to note the difference of cutting edge tech in the 1980s and today.

And before you were wondering if Tom's race car bed turned up in MST3K canon before.

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I thought so, I just wanted to make sure. The funny thing is that Neverwhere is a fantasy novel, so it's interesting that a famous scienice fiction line shows up in it. It's hopping generes, man!

And now I really, really need to find those posts that I made. It's been bothering me that I can't remember what I said, and I usually have a good memory for the written word.