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Honestly, what is getting me is that his book on sharpening pencils is actually 224 pages long. That seems awful long on such a simple subject!
by jdironman 9y ago
Honestly, what is getting me is that his book on sharpening pencils is actually 224 pages long. That seems awful long on such a simple subject!
- croon 9y agoAnd yet he made a half hour show with episodes such as "how to bounce a ball", "how to dig a hole, "how to open a door", "how to take a nap", etc.
- jdironman 9y agoSounds like he must be a good talker to say the least. Charismatic or at the minimum entertaining.
- croon 9y agoIt's definitely majority charisma and being funny, but a portion of the show is talking to experts in the relevant fields to discuss underlying aspects of each "simple concept" that one doesn't normally contemplate.
- bschwindHN 9y agoIt's mostly satire, but of the best variety. He spoke at my university a few years ago, he definitely knows how to entertain a crowd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KabOfnbS4TQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KabOfnbS4TQ
- daniel-cussen 9y agoCortázar wrote some stories like "how to climb stairs."
- mamon 9y agoOr, my personal favourite: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77377.How_to_Shit_in_the_Woods https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77377.How_to_Shit_in_the...
- InitialLastName 9y agoThat book is surprisingly nuanced, full of good advice like: - The best paired squatting methods, for when there's no good tree available (takes a lot of trust). - Advice to look below you before using a cliff.
- logfromblammo 9y agoI guess the joke is that sharpening pencils is what you do when you have writer's block, so if you really have writer's block, you write a whole book on sharpening pencils?
- astura 9y agoThere's only a few sentences on each page.