Stretched Upper Deck

Famous quotes containing the words stretched, upper and/or deck:

    “Thou, pallid there as chalk,
    Hast kept of wounds, O Mourner, all that sum
    That then from Appomattox stretched to Somme!”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “When my old wife lived, upon
    This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
    Both dame and servant, welcomed all, served all,
    Would sing her song and dance her turn, now here
    At upper end o’the table, now i’the middle,
    On his shoulder, and his, her face afire
    With labor, and the thing she took to quench it
    She would to each one sip.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “At twenty-two, he’d been a cowboy, a rustler, one of the best in the Sprawl.... He’d operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the Matrix.”
    —William Gibson b. (1948)