IMO Gibson ain't Pynchon by a long shot

[Markekohut]

When Gibson lived on the streets of Toronto, in his hippie days, one way of survival was to buy
discarded or thrift store clothes cheap and resell a little higher somehow. He developed a knowledge of fabric quality and styles. 

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On Sep 26, 2013, at 6:12 AM, "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> JT> [Gibson is] overly obsessed with fashion to the point of seeing fashion
> sense as a kind of moral force and profound insight.
> 
> The same mental and social processes of emulation, alignment, evaluation -- 
> 
> "What are those around me doing?"
> "What confers approval and status, what is deprecated?"
> "What explains the discrepancies between the 'is' I see and the 'ought' I'm
> taught?"
> 
> are at work in the oldest Deep Moral Forces and the most transient fashion.
> To say "religion, philosophy and psychology are about eternal verities;
> marketing and advertising are about market-driven trivia" is to blind
> oneself with idealism -- and in my experience, to make oneself more rather
> than less easily manipulated by the latter. 
> 
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