To me, reading posts on reddit is a lot of things: education, adventure, compassion, healing, and therapy all at once. I laugh, I learn, I live and love. And in the midst of this pullulating wonderstorm of comments, there’s r/books. I don’t remember how long I’ve been coming here, what the first post I read was, or all the amazing moments we’ve had with our insightful discussions (I show them to my friends and family sometimes). I like to imagine we’re all in a big giant library with all the books in the world: some of are distinguished gentlemen of reading in our overstuffed armchairs, still others are wistful housewives snatching a few lines of Tennyson at the kitchen sink. But together, all and one, we are readers, first and foremost.
When I first read OP’s title, I thought to myself: “Bill Watterson? Of Calvin and Hobbes fame? That Bill Watterson???” I was something of an awkward kid in elementary school, never quite fitting in with all the others. Reading about Calvin’s vivid imagination made me feel less alone on the playground, like there was someone else out there who “got it.” As for John Kascht? Well, that was a new name, but I thought “If he’s cool with Bill Watterson then he’s cool with me.”
So imagine my shock when I got halfway through OP’s post and saw that Watterson wasn’t exactly “cool” with Kaschts. But they were professional with each other, and this contrast and sense of professionalism was resulted in the of making a book together. It reminded me of Jaime and Adam on Mythbusters. A bit of trivia: despite working together for over a decade, they aren’t close personal friends. I think that quality and attitude is what allows teamship to flourish. Why, just imagine we’d all had that mentality during covid? The covid pandemic is when I first began to question capitalism. I mean, I’d always hated it, but the pandemic, with the resulting shut-downs, that was the first time I questioned it.
To me, reading posts on reddit is a lot of things: education, adventure, compassion, healing, and therapy all at once. I laugh, I learn, I live and love. And in the midst of this pullulating wonderstorm of comments, there’s r/books. I don’t remember how long I’ve been coming here, what the first post I read was, or all the amazing moments we’ve had with our insightful discussions (I show them to my friends and family sometimes). I like to imagine we’re all in a big giant library with all the books in the world: some of are distinguished gentlemen of reading in our overstuffed armchairs, still others are wistful housewives snatching a few lines of Tennyson at the kitchen sink. But together, all and one, we are readers, first and foremost.
When I first read OP’s title, I thought to myself: “Bill Watterson? Of Calvin and Hobbes fame? That Bill Watterson???” I was something of an awkward kid in elementary school, never quite fitting in with all the others. Reading about Calvin’s vivid imagination made me feel less alone on the playground, like there was someone else out there who “got it.” As for John Kascht? Well, that was a new name, but I thought “If he’s cool with Bill Watterson then he’s cool with me.”
So imagine my shock when I got halfway through OP’s post and saw that Watterson wasn’t exactly “cool” with Kaschts. But they were professional with each other, and this contrast and sense of professionalism was resulted in the of making a book together. It reminded me of Jaime and Adam on Mythbusters. A bit of trivia: despite working together for over a decade, they aren’t close personal friends. I think that quality and attitude is what allows teamship to flourish. Why, just imagine we’d all had that mentality during covid? The covid pandemic is when I first began to question capitalism. I mean, I’d always hated it, but the pandemic, with the resulting shut-downs, that was the first time I questioned it.
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