# Quote — Charles Stross, Glasshouse

> 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.

- Author: [Charles Stross](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross.md)
- Book: [Glasshouse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse.md)
- Page: 22
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#Glasshouse_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse/im-wearing-black

## More from this book

> In my experience, the best way to deal with such people is to politely agree with everything they say, then ignore them.

p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse/in-my-experience.md)

> I’m trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

p. 107 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse/im-trapped-in-a-fun-house.md)

> If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

p. 224 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse/if-i-forget.md)