"Sandstorms raged across the scoured floor of his skull, generating waves of high thin static that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purest crystal, expanding."
— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Ace Books
Date
1984
Metaphor
"Sandstorms raged across the scoured floor of his skull, generating waves of high thin static that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purest crystal, expanding."
Metaphor in Context
The drug hit him like an express train, a white-hot column of light mounting his spine from the region of his prostate, illuminating the sutures of his skull with x-rays of short-circuited sexual energy. His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol. His bones, beneath the hazy envelope of flesh, were chromed and polished, the joints lubricated with a film of silicone. Sandstorms raged across the scoured floor of his skull, generating waves of high thin static that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purest crystal, expanding...
(p. 154)
(p. 154)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
William Gibson, Neuromancer (New York: Ace Books, 1984).
Date of Entry
07/31/2015
