has anyone ever written a book where the acknowledgments page is like “i acknowledge nobody but myself. nobody helped me with this book. it sprang fully-formed from my own head like bright-eyed athena”
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this is an especially impressive example because there are 3 other named co-authors
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There’s this: scsh.net/docu/html/man.
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if i had a nickel for every time i wanted to write a fictional book introduction i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice right
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i can’t wait for twitter people to start writing books with forewords where they’ll write shit like “shoutout to @cum_retard for many thought-provoking replies and DMs, this book wouldn’t be the same without you bro”
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i think it's a bit 😅
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Oh it’s totally a bit. Olin is a very warm guy but also a great teller of tall tales.
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He's doing Hunter S. Thompson as a computer science professor -- and doing it well.
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