he tried to pick out distinct groups : there were the ones who looked like they had escaped from a historical reenactment society ; the ones who reminded him of hippies ; the albino people in gray clothes and dark glasses ; the polished , dangerous ones in smart suits and black gloves ; the huge , almost identical women who walked together in twos and threes , and nodded when they saw each other ; the tangle-haired ones who looked like they probably lived in sewers and who smelled like hell ; and a hundred other types and kinds ...