Should they be allowed to live?
>>25200373Ah… so that’s what they mean by performative. It isn’t just a bastardised word seething women use.
>>25200373If you're reading in public next to a woman, you are a fag. If you are reading in public next to a man, you are a badass.
>>25200378And if that man is my boyfriend Morgan?
>>25200373I read books on my telephone so I read on public transport but you can't tell unless you see my screen
>>25200382>If you are reading in public next to a man, you are a badass.it doesn’t matter. You’re a gay homo but you’re not a fag.
>>25200373I remember being 18, getting the train to go and see my then girlfriend and I was reading Don Quixote… you can’t even focus it’s too fucking distracting.
>>25200382very badass
>>25200388This. I stopped reading in public bc i couldn't concentrate, not because I cared what women and fags on the internet thought of me
>>25200388>>25200413You didn’t make it into a gimmick or fashion thing?
>>25200435Would a girl today only be impressed if I was reading romantasy?
>>25200373Die and let live, OP (kys).
>>25200388Really? I find train trips the easiest time to read.
Theres too many things that start with N around.
there used to be some fat guy who always read books on the bus home when i was a kid. for some reason i always found the idea of enjoying some reading on the bus on a dark snowy night after work to be super comfy . it sucks that im schizo and dont work so i cant enjoy this fantasy
>>25200373>hur hur, you must be new here. No one on /lit/ actually reads>young people reading is… le bad!Nothing is ever good enough for you miserable twats
>>25200373Agreed OP. Why isn’t he wearing sweatpants and sports team baseball cap and reading Barstool sports posts on fun light up screen?
>>25200373Some of us care more about the book we are reading than whether random anons believe we are putting a show for others. But I do personally find it hard to zone out all the inane conversations around me on public transport as I read
I’d love to read on the train, but I get dizzy when I read in moving vehicles.
last time i was on the nyc subway i saw a young dude reading mere christianity by c.s. lewis
>>25200373>oh God I'm so lonely please someone start a conversation with me, preferably a womanis how I'm reading his body language
I've had a lot of productive time reading in the train despite it being loud to commute. Odd case of white noise for me considering I do get irritated with the slightest inconvenient sound when I'm on my desk.
>>25200577That’s fucking crazy, bro.
>>25200388Schopenhauer said that being able to concentrate with distractions going on around you is a sign of low-IQ, and that geniuses need perfect silence to concentrate. But I think he was just riding his own dick on that one.
>>25200577it's wild how many christian radio stations there are around NYC, when God clearly abandoned that shit hole and everyone in it long ago
>>25200587Don’t get me wrong here, fren, because I enjoyed reading your post, but Schopenhauer’s take here is comically stupid. What a faggot lmao
>>25200590idk dude haven't u seen those stories about how "catholic mass is the hottest party in town for gen z" etc. idk maybe the dude who replaced cardinal dolan hired a pr firm to float those stories lol but my friend who is an italian boomer and goes to mass everywhere in the tristate says the manhattan masses are full of young people, so maybe it's true.
>>25200601With things looking so bleak economically and socially, I’m always happy to see young people taking up the Cross and going to Church when they could have ended up in some infernal Guenon thread, heaven forbid.
Caring about how you appear to others in public is mostly a teenager thing. I stopped caring about that shit when I got my first job. I'm already losing 8 hours of my life to Mr. Shekelstein, I don't care if some whacko thinks I'm performative or whatever, if I'm going to be sitting in one place for half an hour, I'm whipping out that book.>>25200565>>25200580I can read on a train just fine, unless the conversation happens literally next to me. Drowning out white noise is easy, drowning out a loud conversation is nigh-impossible.
>>25200373No, death sentence
>>25200587Eh, that sounds like bullshit, I like Schopenhauer too; I’m not very intelligent and as I said, I struggled on that train. Though, if there’s one thing I can say, reading some of the early parts of Don Quixote will always remind me of travelling through the countryside, which is where I was when I tried and failed to read it.
>>25200573Same here, I don't get motion sickness anywhere else, but I just can't read in vehicles
It can be done but you should really pick light reading because if you go and read freaking Hegel you won't catch as much
>>25200822Also its harder on the third world cause you gotta watch for some negro not taking your bag or something
>>25200373>be me>sitting quietly reading because it's my favorite hobby>living rent free in the minds of the seething illiterates that surround me>such is the life of an aristocrat of the soul
>>25200373I read on the train all the time. It passes the time quicker than music for meI say that I don't give a fuck if somebody sees me and thinks I'm being performative, but desu I decided to finally read The Bell Jar last week because I just never have, and I didn't let myself bring that on the train because I thought it'd look performative, so I'm not completely immune to this bullshit trend I guess
>>25200373Reading on train is actually comfy and is easier to focus on than reading at home. Nothing better than reading on train when there isn't loud conversation going on next to you, you are sitting next to a window and the world outside is moving faster and faster and turning into mush in corner of your eye and there's only the book and it's words in front of you.
>>25200869I don't give a fuck, I read Lolita and Gravity's Rainbow (scat section) on a train.
What else am I supposed to be doing on the train?
>>25201166Jerking off
>>25200373??? 70% of what I read is read on the train or waiting for the train.
>>25200573I don't have this problem with trains, but I do have it in cars. which sucks because I regularly make 8 hour car trips.
>>25200869This happened to me with The God Delusion. Bought it out of curiosity when I found it in a second-hand shop, but I felt like everyone was laughing at me. Left it on the train.
>>25201266Yeah, i can't read in cars or on busses, but trains and subways are smooth and motion sickness free for me.
>>25201166Thinking of ways to make more money so you don't have to be a loser sitting on the train
>>25201285But I like trains
>>25201285why would I pay for a car and gas in perpetuity when there's a robust public transit system?
>>25201302Because in a car you have the luxury of complete privacy as well as the ability to stop whenever and wherever you want. A train is a cuckcage you're forced to share with others. Even in first class, you're awkwardly sitting next to strangers. And in second class, expect loud babies and people eating odorous food
I will read anywhere I want to.
>>25201319Can't put my feet up and read a book while driving, but.Also,>Even in first class, you're awkwardly sitting next to strangers. And in second class, expect loud babies and people eating odorous foodWhat the fuck are you talking about you stupid cunt? This is clearly about commuter trains...or do you not have those in whatever shithole you fell out of your mother's cunt into?
>>25201288trains is hard job
>>25200373I don't read in public transport or dress nice because I have to stay alert, but the "performative" people are not the ones doing shit everyone finds lame like reading or dressing like columbo.
When I went to NYU I used the subway to read. A good 45 minutes of uninterrupted reading unless a drunk hobo walks in. It ain't that deep. Mental midgets are so fragile. Only at Miller High.
>>25200373I read everytime i use the bus. There is nothing wrong reading while using public transit.
I don't see the issue. It's nice to be in a public environment and completely tune out and get absorbed in some book or mobile game or whatever. What makes me actually rage and seethe is seeing perfomative 'nerdy' blacks read their stupid manhwa or whatever on their phone on the train.
If you're so spineless that you let some TikTok bitches' glares stop you from living your life, you're NGMI.
>>25200373I read on the train because I'm almost never home. It's not ideal, especially when I have to stand the entire ride because Shaniqua didn't fuck a nigga that owns a car.
>>25200373love reading in the train usually people here are quiet so noise is not an issue
