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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.
William Gibson
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
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