How do we combat the performative reading issue?
>>25336139What the fuck is emrata? It sounds like a Twitter writer or some other crap
>>25336156supermodel, wrote a book of essays titled "My Body." ngl it's pretty good. I recommend
>>25336139If you faggots can't tell this is a skit then Ill lose all hope
>>25336156Emily Ratajkowski, israeli instagram model.
>>25336139the funniest part of performative reading is that foids are too stupid to recognize genuinely pretentious books so in order to performatively read successfully you'd have to actually read really stupid and simple YAslop like jane austen and virginia woolf
>>25336139“Performative reading” is 100% a psyop meant to discourage young people from talking about or participating in literature. Promotion of illiteracy to keep the cattle retarded.
>>25336139Not a thing. If women made it up it absolutely does not exist. Women are incapable of inventing anything.
every time i'm all by myself reading a book, my girlfriend constantly interrupts: who's that again??? what's going on??? why'd they do that???
>>25336303It's not a psyop. We're simply acknowledging that no straight man would read these books for any reason other than to attract women. Most of literature is pretending bad authors are good to gain social clout and vice versa anyways.
>>25336303>psyopThe most overused word.
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>>25336744I never understood types like you. >I ignore XDoesn't seem like you are. Interesting..
Calling things performative is performative now
>>25336201>YAslop like jane austen and virginia woolf
>>25336782Austen IS YAslop.
>>25336792>implying a book is YA because there's less distinct words than in Crime and PunishmentIt would admittedly be interesting to see Twilight, and perhaps Hemingway, on the same chart.
>>25336744Your mother is a whore and you are a rapebaby.
>>25336303Dude's "reading" a book written by an insta whore, anon.
>>25336804kek you are the anon who pissed off that one pretend chad millennial guy. He is ranting right now about how he gets dates and is posting photos of these 'dates'.
>>25336878 It's not real moron
>>25336559>reading to attract womenIs that a bad thing?
>>25336744https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FgxacX72snA&ra=m
>>25336139This is a staged video 100%
>>25336188This.
>>25337609You can tell this is staged because these women would be all over this guy in real life, not film him at a distance for 30 mins.
>>25337623trvkee
>>25337623Weird fantasy anon
>>25337679As much as I hate to use the term incel disparagingly, they really are all like this. Any time they see some faggy effete zoomer with a strong jaw they cream themselves over him and put his face on Hyperborea edits. Disgusting queers.
>>25336139By only reading hoe-scaring literature in public
Why is a literal tiktok thread still up?
>>25336792pic related's methodology sucks>Ulysses stands alone in terms of its distinctness—the shape of the function does not resemble any other books of similar length. This is unsurprising and matches the “eye test,” given Joyce’s use of neologisms and portmanteaus, e.g. “psychophysicotherapeutics” and (even better) “scrotumtightening.”counting any unique string as a 'distinct word' is extremely distorting and the guy himself clearly recognizes how much it favors Joyce's word-saladsthe real question is how unique the vocabulary is relative to the length of the work, with proper nouns and non-dictionary words disqualified
>>25336804We're all rapebabies in a sense.
>>25337942one can see just how much Joyce's portmanteaus cheat the metric in the first few pages>'dressinggown', when 'dressing' and 'gown' can also be found separately in the text>same with 'gunrest', 'noserag', 'snotgreen', 'harbourmouth', 'cuffedge', 'wellfed', 'lookingglass', 'dissectingroom', 'woodshadows', 'lightshod', 'wavewhite', 'featherfans', 'dancecards', etc., etc.
>>25337942>>25338031as for proper nouns, we can point to this later passage: >From his girdle hung a row of seastones which jangled at every movement of his portentous frame and on these were graven with rude yet striking art the tribal images of many Irish heroes and heroines of antiquity, Cuchulin, Conn of hundred battles, Niall of nine hostages, Brian of Kincora, the ardri Malachi, Art MacMurragh, Shane O’Neill, Father John Murphy, Owen Roe, Patrick Sarsfield, Red Hugh O’Donnell, Red Jim MacDermott, Soggarth Eoghan O’Growney, Michael Dwyer, Francy Higgins, Henry Joy McCracken, Goliath, Horace Wheatley, Thomas Conneff, Peg Woffington, the Village Blacksmith, Captain Moonlight, Captain Boycott, Dante Alighieri, Christopher Columbus, S. Fursa, S. Brendan, Marshal MacMahon, Charlemagne, Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Mother of the Maccabees, the Last of the Mohicans, the Rose of Castile, the Man for Galway, The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, The Man in the Gap, The Woman Who Didn’t, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Hermit, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales, Thomas Cook and Son, the Bold Soldier Boy, Arrah na Pogue, Dick Turpin, Ludwig Beethoven, the Colleen Bawn, Waddler Healy, Angus the Culdee, Dolly Mount, Sidney Parade, Ben Howth, Valentine Greatrakes, Adam and Eve, Arthur Wellesley, Boss Croker, Herodotus, Jack the Giantkiller, Gautama Buddha, Lady Godiva, The Lily of Killarney, Balor of the Evil Eye, the Queen of Sheba, Acky Nagle, Joe Nagle, Alessandro Volta, Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Don Philip O’Sullivan Beare.If we remove names that are only names which do not double as words (for example, in 'Art MacMurragh' we accept 'Art' as a word but not 'MacMurragh') and discard duplicates, we end up disqualifying more than 170 of the 268 words
>>25336792I give you a random bit of the great mighty Ulysses:>—The moon, professor MacHugh said. He forgot Hamlet._—That mantles the vista far and wide and wait till the glowing orb ofthe moon shine forth to irradiate her silver effulgence..._—O! Mr Dedalus cried, giving vent to a hopeless groan. Shite andonions! That’ll do, Ned. Life is too short.He took off his silk hat and, blowing out impatiently his bushymoustache, welsh combed his hair with raking fingers.
>>25336792No sane person ranks literature this way.
>>25336139I don't think this is a real thing. I believe people do performative book carrying, and performative book displaying at home, but reading? Books are a high-value hobby for men but only during the 2nd or even 3rd stage of a relationship, not the initial one. Worse, the act of reading is itself a distancing one, at least in terms of strangers; it's in the same category as headphones where I'm less likely to approach someone reading a book than any other stranger.
>>25336139I saw a dude like this the other day. I normally wouldn't notice somebody reading but it was the way he was doing it. Laid back but still looking around, reclining back against a dingy city wall with his legs outstretched and sitting on a chair he had dragged out of a nearby restaurant. As a human there are subconscious cues that you pick up on and people acting in a way that isn't natural is one of them. These guys are hunting for attention and it looks really fucking gay. Some women will fall for it of course, but most also think it's cringe.
>>25337520>nothing ever happens
>>25337534Reductive. The issue is the types of books being read are disingenuous not the act of reading in and of itself.
>>25336139If im in public i cannot concentrate on reading so i will be listening to audiobooks. People will have to find something else to judge me for.
>>25336196*Polish-Israeli. Get it right.
