Michael removes a single button from the jacket and throws it down the new pipe. The button clatters down the pipe’s gentle downward slope.

Michael从西服上取下一颗钮扣，从管道中扔了下去，钮扣顺着管道平缓向下的坡道掉下去，发出哗啦啦地声音。

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He prowls Patagonia's headquarters, in Ventura, California, checking in on new designs (he showed me a sturdy down jacket that felt about as heavy as a paperclip and then said he'd kill me before telling me how they make it) and tinkering with a lightweight camp stove of his own invention at his desk.

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