What is the modern equivalent of those 1950s Parisian cafés?

[Anonymous No.14478343]

You know, where you could discuss books, philosophy, and all that gay shit?

[Anonymous No.14478385]

>>14478343
...cafés? There are plenty where people go to read or discuss things. I go to one where I discuss shit with friends who drop by, usually we sit next to the Muslim guys discussing whatever they're saying in Arabic because we can share cigarettes, lighters and ashtrays.
>tfw the Muslim bros followed me from the last café I frequented when it closed because they trust my taste in coffee
>tfw the hysterical sjw from the last café got banned for being rude to staff
>tfw staff give us free pastries in the new café because we lend them books in English
>tfw staff in old café gave free coffee to anyone who made the sjw cry and go home
Cafés so comfy bro, find a good one.

[Anonymous No.14478393]

>>14478343
/lit/

[Anonymous No.14478428]

>>14478393
Coffee culture is pretty important to literature. Boswell's Johnson material comes almost entirely from writing down shit Johnson said over coffee. The Spectator comes from Lloyd's coffee house (as does Lloyd's banking and insurance, and politeness but those are perhaps less /lit/). There are cafés in Paris whose entire trade comes from existentialists and modernists living there and collecting their mail from there. The Viennese coffee culture gave us Zweig and countless poets, along with Klimt, and sheltered Trotsky for a while when Stalin was out to get him. Coffee is /lit/ af, even Kant loved it.

[Anonymous No.14478430]

>>14478343
Just go to church. Everyone loves discussing the good book and sometimes there is free coffee.

[Anonymous No.14478444]

>>14478430
But what would my priest say if I explained to him the slave morality inherent to all Abrahamic religions?

[Anonymous No.14478448]

Just meet some friends with those interests

[Anonymous No.14478451]

>>14478343
Twitter..
Sadly

[Anonymous No.14478456]

>>14478448
I would if I could. None of mine care about literature that much.

>>14478451
I'd prefer not to...

[Anonymous No.14478457]

>>14478428
Yes, but I said that /lit/ is the modern equivalent to those cafés

[Anonymous No.14478463]

>>14478457
But those cafes were frequented by clever and well read people not teenagers who only read Wikipedia articles

[Anonymous No.14478505]

>>14478463
How do you know that for certain? How do you know the reputation wasn't just some pseud front for upper class socializing and degeneracy made made ambiguous by its historical romantic-intellectual appeal? Do you really think that perfect places like these exist free of posers and midwits?

[Anonymous No.14478518]

>>14478463
I got to agree with >>14478505 here...the baseline intelligence was probably higher but it's not as if the French are strangers to surface-level aestheticism.

[Anonymous No.14478527]

>>14478343
Discord :3

[Anonymous No.14478528]

>>14478385
>using sjw
cringe bro

[Anonymous No.14478554]

>>14478385
>willingly fraternizing with animals
why are french people so gross?

[Anonymous No.14478563]

>>14478430
ok cardinal

but for real though, i don't think people discuss literature at church. seems like church is where many of the low intelligence thiests are.

[Anonymous No.14478596]

>>14478343
Starbucks. You sit in a corner for hours, doing social media on your phone.

[Anonymous No.14478617]

>>14478563
Low intelligence theists don't go to church. Unless they're from those sects in america like baptists for example >>14478563
and the pastor acts like Elvis

[Anonymous No.14478630]

>>14478528
>>14478554
>people who can't converse over coffee
>>14478457
>those cafés and cultures are all gone
kek this thread is reminding me that American's greatest exposure to coffee and literature together is Starbucks being named after a high school book.