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Yes, I'd forgotten about the Buzz Rickson!

I'm not inclined in any way to follow fashion but I was really taken with Gibson's attention to detail in these books. He has a way of imparting curiosity about the seemingly mundane and I have started to pay attention to similar traits in clothing.

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For my favorite bit of Gibson covering the mundane: https://www.gwern.net/docs/japanese/2002-gibson

That's a whole article about the art of mud-ball shining, and it's fascinating.

(It's also an intriguing taste of how Gibson got started on his last decade of topics. Otaku, crafting perfectionism, "the absolute narrowing of personal bandwidth", and so on.)

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