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Orin's interview with Steeply — "came up with that new kind…"

quote

came up with that new kind of window glass that doesn’t fog or smudge from people touching it or breathing on it and drawing little finger-oil faces on it, then sold it to Mitsubishi

Context

Buried in the sanity résumé: the optics career is still shipping product in the terminal years — anti-fog, anti-smudge window glass, sold to Mitsubishi. Glass that refuses breath and finger-writing, invented in the same household where (per Bain, n269 below) a word on a "fogged" Volvo window "cast a conjugal pall" in the days before the suicide — the pairing is ours, inferred, not either raw's. Scene 160's Lens & Pane interview (JOI publicly repudiating "this kind of window-glass") is the same late-glass thread from the other end.

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