just finished it, might as well make a thread about it.

there's like a million quotes at the beginning of my copy that talk about how it's his greatest achievement, just amazing, better than IJ etc. it seems silly to me because I liked it but I don't think it had anywhere near as much impact as a lot of other stuff.

Other than that I think it was great on its own. Loved the story about Stecyk being an annoyingly kind kid.

Why does he add supernatural elements to his stuff sometimes? It seems out of place like what significance was there with Drinion being able to levitate?

Favorite quotes thread
I'll go first:
"It is easy to prescribe how to become a good short story writer, but to do it presumes qualities which are habitually overlooked when one says, “I don’t have enough talent.” Let a person make a hundred or more drafts of short stories, none longer than two pages, yet each of a clarity such that each word in it is necessary; let him write down anecdotes each day until he learns how to find their most concise, effective form; let him be inexhaustible in collecting and depicting human types and characters; let him above all tell tales as often as possible, and listen to tales, with a sharp eye and ear for the effect on the audience; let him travel like a landscape painter and costume designer; let him excerpt from the various sciences everything that has an artistic effect if well portrayed; finally, let him contemplate the motives for human behavior, and disdain no hint of information about them, and be a collector of such things day and night. In this diverse exercise, let some ten years pass: and then what is created in the workshop may also be brought before the public eye."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Human, All Too Human

>/r9k/ the book

I just finished this, /lit/, and I have no idea what to make of it. I found it hilarious, sure, but I find myself wanting something more of it, though I don't know what. What feels did this make you feel?

Since when printing HD wine and car pictures into good paper became "sophisticated art of bookmaking"? What makes these guys so popular, i don't get it.

>Münchhausen trilemma

What is the point of doing philosophy without solving this?

What is the literary equivalent to ITAOTS

Can you guys give a critique of this essay? I'm interested in hearing your views of it. It's titled "I don't fall in love because I am smart" http://theinternet.io/guest-articles/i-dont-fall-in-love-because-i-am-smart-guest-article-2-by-Diego-Alvarado.html

I always daydream about going up to a hot girl, trying to talk to her, and having nothing to say, being lost for words. I also daydream that I'll be lost for words during job interviews.

But whenever I have to talk, I always do it instantly, naturally, without even having to stop and think! On the one hand, this makes me extremely happy. I'm not autistic or any shit like that, i'm as witty as any normie, especially with 4chan and google.com / lookism giving me that edgy humour.

But on the other hand, the words come out so effortlessly and thoughtlessly, I feel like it's not even me that's saying it. It's like I'm watching myself without any control over my words. I feel like life is predetermined and that there's nothing I can do to improve myself.

Does anyone else have similar feels?

What does /lit/ think of this?