Quote: Jeanne Hedge wrote:Ah! I knew I'd seen a reference to this somewhere! Pulled from the EPU boards, in particular the
Quote: blackaeronaut wrote:
Jeane, I was going to go ahead and quote that whole thing. Just didn't want to seem like I was hijacking the thread with DSKS stuff. (^_^
ETA: Oh, and I dunno if Gryph was actually at either of the DAICONs where those videos were showed. He may have seen it second-hand, but given the
copyright issues that all but snuffed it out of existence... I more strongly suspect that he has that line because ELO is part of his music collection. In
the end, though, it boils down to one of us having to ask him.
I have a head for useless trivia, and expound ad naunausem. It's a problem. I do try to cite when possible, though (keeps one out of trouble)
I also had that ELO album back when it first came out back in the day, (which is why I knew where that quote was from). I looked up the lyric though. I'd
be pleasantly surprised if Gryph was at Daicon III or IV, though, since that was a con in Japan.
annotations for Symphony one, Movement one:
Quote: 1 This opening line comes from the prologue to Electric Light Orchestra's "Twilight", on their 1981 album Time. It was suggested as the tagline
for Future Imperfect by Kris "Redneck" Overstreet, I think during development of Twilight, and has appeared on almost all FI stories written since
(the most notable exception being The Vastru Encounter, which for obvious reasons substitutes the opening-screen line from Marathon, "somewhere in the
heavens... they are waiting").