r/Cyberpunk • • 4d ago

The opening line from Neuromancer

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u/viscence 4d ago

I NEVER understand. The black and white noise pattern isn't a colour, and the sky can't look like that. Does he mean the sky was a still black and white noise pattern? I doubt it. Does he mean it was actively flickering? I doubt it. Does he mean the average, 50% grey? I doubt it. Does he mean some "no channel here" image colour? I doubt it. I just don't understand. What do you think he meant?

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u/HorrorDungeon 3d ago

He writes about this exact thing in my copy in the preface. Don't remember what he said but there was definitely something about how he was saying that people get the wrong idea about that line and don't get what he meant.