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>visit chain bookstore
>employee hands me a complimentary latte
>hear that the string quartet is playing my favourite Beethoven piece
>get in roller coaster and ride to the poetry section
>see the poet of the day is William Blake
>Blake impersonator is really entertaining
>audience is enraptured and really into it
>everyone gets free copies of his collected work
>get into roller coaster and ride to exit
>notice there's a literary trivia contest going on
>use my experience on /lit/ to win a complete set of William T. Vollmann books
>man walks up to me, says he was really impressed and that he would like to publish some of my work
>ask him who he works for
>"Penguin Classics"

>visit indie bookstore
>smell of weed immediately hits my face
>clerk is a 15 year old kid wearing an Ayn Rand shirt
>ask him where the poetry section is
>groans with disgust and says it's "somewhere in the back"
>try to hop in between piles of old Romance paperbacks
>get distracted by some dogs fucking in the theater section
>trip over a stack of Stephen King novels and get buried under a bunch of Wordsworth Classics
>pinned to the floor
>call for help, but the clerk is distracted by a homeless man trying to steal some erotica
>see a Norton Critical Edition of Shelly's work within reach
>pull out arm and grab it
>feels wet for some reason
>tfw it was soaked in cum

Why do people think indie bookstores are supposed to be so much better?

>> No.9683742

>>9683700
Comfy story.

>> No.9683773

>>9683700
which chain bookstore?

>> No.9683790

>>9683773

Indigo (Canadian store)

>> No.9683796

>>9683700
hey good seeing you the other day. next time you stop by you can pick up a signed first edition of ulysses, on the house, for being such a super customer over the years.

>> No.9683817

>>9683796
>not signed first edition of the iliad
i'm going back to borders.

>> No.9683886

>>9683817
You STILL doesn't have a signed copy of EVERY ancient Greek author? PLEB!

Seriously now, get them while it's possible. I heard prices are going up on those.

>> No.9684179

>>9683700
Why do people think indie bookstores are supposed to be so much better?

Um the fact that the place reeks of weed is a significant plus also indie store in my experience have always staffed hotter/younger girls.

I appreciate the earthy foibles.

>> No.9684207

>>9683700
I love that image of Seinfeld, always makes me laugh, also good post OP.

>> No.9684231
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>>9683886
>he doesn't own Diogenes' barrel, still scratched with his entire philosophical treatise and complete deconstruction of aristotle, plato, descartes (he was a time traveler, you'd know this if you had read his barrel, pleb), kant, wittgenstein, and all the rest of the schlocky frauds.
man, what a frightful life you must lead. i'll probably have the barrel burned upon my death, so plebs like you can't read it.

>> No.9684254

>>9684231
>tfw you will never watch Diogenes masturbate in public
why even live?

>> No.9684256

GOOD thread

>> No.9684263

Sensible jej

>> No.9684308

>>9684179
>plus also indie store in my experience have always staffed hotter/younger girls.

>dyed hair, hot topic tier clothes, and nose and lip piercings
>attractive

no thanks

>> No.9684361

>>9684308
don't forget no chins and pudginess

>> No.9684371

>>9684361
>pin that says "pronouns: they/them" on it

>> No.9684379

>>9684371
>pin that says "I'm with Her"

>> No.9684486

>>9684361
The ones I've gone to had in shape or thin girls. I find tatts, dyed hair, and piercing's sexy.

>> No.9684516

>>9683700
>get distracted by some dogs fucking in the theater section
Lost

>> No.9684532

>>9683700
youll find more rare stuff at an indie shop tho. mostly tho you arent gonna find anything you probably want. i went to the one right outside or colonial williamsburg, next to the college. its in a basement and i had a fun time looking around, but pretentious girls were strutting around saying, "wow, what a cool place. its got so many old books." its literally just a landmark for the area, i dont see how they stay in business. i saw nobody buy anything the hour or so i was looking through the shelves. i bet most of their sales are from buying big old picture books for peoples coffee tables

>> No.9684541

>>9684486
>I find tatts, dyed hair, and piercing's sexy.
Underage or engineering major?

>> No.9684545

>>9684532
How do you know they were pretentious?

>> No.9684550

>>9684545
He could hear their internal monologues.

>> No.9684551

>>9684486
>I find tatts, dyed hair, and piercing's sexy.

>>9684541
>Underage or engineering major?
He's gotta be engineering, with a neckbeard he thinks is a beard.

>> No.9684557

>>9684532
>i bet most of their sales are from buying big old picture books for peoples coffee tables
Kramer wins again

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>>9684254
>he doesn't have the Diogenes tapes
it just keeps getting richer and richer.

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>>9684581
TIME TRAVELERS GET OUT