I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out … - Charles Stross

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There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

Charles Stross

I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

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