February 3, 2006

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William Gib­son’s auto­bi­og­ra­phy is an inter­est­ing piece of writ­ing, detail­ing how and why he became a writer. I re-read this today, and it made me happy.

Google me and you can learn that I do it all on a man­u­al type­writer, some­thing that has­n’t been true since 1985, but which makes such an easy hook for a lazy jour­nal­ist that I expect to be read­ing it for the rest of my life. I only used a type­writer because that was what every­one used in 1977, and it was man­u­al because that was what I hap­pened to have been able to get, for free.

Also, if you haven’t read his poem Agrip­pa, you real­ly should. In my hum­ble opin­ion, anyway.

Any­ways, I’ve got fam­i­ly in town. See ya later!