/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18321435]

Do you feel weird reading in public?

[Anonymous No.18321457]

>>18321435
No. I've only ever been bothered for reading something once (that I noticed at least). Some black woman tried to give me a staredown because I was reading Vol. 2 of Ian Kershaw's Hitler Bio. I just smiled and went back to reading (laughing to myself that she didn't know what the word "nemesis" meant).

[Anonymous No.18322249]

>>18321435
who does feel weird for reading? is this a thing?

[Anonymous No.18322252]

>>18321457
wow wow, big guy here, can make eye contact with a female and read a history book in public, really heroic story, bro, I am impressed

[Anonymous No.18322255]

>>18321435
No.

[Anonymous No.18322260]

Yes
I feel like everyone is judging me and thinking in their head 'Well that guy is speedreading rn I doubt he actually knows what he's reading'

[Anonymous No.18322269]

>>18322260
how can one be so insecure? pls anon try to better yourself or you will regret it soon

[Anonymous No.18322270]

>>18322249
I would've never thought so till I came here

[Anonymous No.18322285]

>>18322269
I have anxiety issues and I've been insecure ever since I was a child and currently I'm castrated with estrogen in my body

[Anonymous No.18322286]

>>18321435
no
when i was a teenager i sometimes deliberately tilted the book so the cute girl opposite me saw i was reading aristotle or some shit. i don't do such things anymore, it was pretty cringe

[Anonymous No.18322288]

>>18322285
I am sorry to hear that
hope you will grow strong some day bc this world preys on the weak

[Anonymous No.18322307]

>>18322288
Oh that was not the reaction I was going for
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.18322308]

>>18321435
I feel weird in public regardless of what I am doing.

t. rural fag

[Anonymous No.18322344]

>>18321435
No

[Anonymous No.18322376]

>>18322285
Kys tranny

[Anonymous No.18322415]

>>18322376
Thanks :)

[Anonymous No.18323171]

>>18322308
I feel you, rural bro

[Anonymous No.18323182]

>>18321435
No, if you niggas see a maskless caucasian man reading in the Hanzomon/den-en-toshi line, that's me. Don't forget to say hi.

[Anonymous No.18323241]

>>18321435
why would I feel weird?

[Anonymous No.18324884]

>>18322252
No, heroic would have been throwing up the Roman salute and winking at her. The point was no one cares if you're reading in public (unless they're retarded and need something to tweet @BLM).

[Anonymous No.18324930]

No, I have really stopped caring what strangers think of me. The other day I was walking and reading and some girls said to me “oo that’s a cool book, what book is that?”
I pretended like I didn’t hear them and kept walking

[Anonymous No.18324962]

The problem is not "feeling weird", the problem is I can't read with background chatter

[Anonymous No.18324986]

>>18321435
no. why would I? I live in a big city and most people just go on about their day. they dont even give a fuck if they see a hobo jacking off.

[Anonymous No.18324997]

>>18324962
nice that you live in a city where people still talk to each other in public

[Anonymous No.18325108]

>>18321457
I can't believe I share a board with people who even think its okay to write down cringe shit like this

[Anonymous No.18325219]

>>18321435
i cant relax if other people are around, and if i was reading something in public then i automatically assume other people are judging me for it, but i know realistically people dont care i cant help it

[Anonymous No.18325231]

>>18324997
They use their phones to talk to people who are not in public.

[Anonymous No.18325261]

>>18323182
>maskless caucasian man reading in the Hanzomon/den-en-toshi line
Whoa...

[Anonymous No.18325276]

>>18325219
>if i was reading something in public then i automatically assume other people are judging me for it, but i know realistically people dont care i cant help it
If that can help you, I've had even literal petty criminals coming at me to say "Interesting, it's not common to see people reading and try to better themselves, I respect you for that".

[Anonymous No.18325653]

>>18325108
>think its okay
You sound like an SJW. It's not ok to read a biography in public? It's ok to make assumptions based on the title of a book (not even the subtitle) and glare at someone, for at least 2 minutes, sitting quietly on a public bench? (FYI: I was wearing an $1800 suit and on lunch; it's not like I was wearing a MAGA hat/Blue Lives Matter t-shirt).

The whole experience was completely benign, at least for me. As I said, I just smiled at her (politely) and went back to my book (and as far as I know, she kept staring). What, did you imbue that with the idea of some white supremacist microaggression? My only victory was enjoying my lunch break despite a rude idiot who was triggered by a stranger reading a book.

FYI: The only other time I was bothered while reading was when a girl approached me on the subway because we were reading the same novel. I had a short conversation with her and she mentioned a coffee shop she likes to go to (I was polite but ignored the hint). For someone like you, that's probably on your top ten incel/nice guy /lit fantasy list. For me...it was a Sunday.

[Anonymous No.18325719]

I was reading Hitler’s Revolution on the beaches of Santa Monica a few years ago. This one old kike lady saw Hitler’s face in the cover and walked up to me demanding to know what I was reading.
I said “German history” lol

[Anonymous No.18325749]

>>18322252
>>18325108
Here's someone more on your level: >>18325719

[Anonymous No.18325805]

I read on the New York subway all the time
Mishima, Pound, Hamsun, Celine and nobody ever said anything to me
And New York is infested with Jews

[Anonymous No.18325817]

>>18321435
I am reading Guenon in public

[Anonymous No.18325852]

>>18324930
based

[Anonymous No.18327089]

>>18322285
Pls for the love of god, post picture of your bussy, I need to masturbate.

[Anonymous No.18327109]

>>18325749
Seethe more

[Anonymous No.18327126]

>>18321435
No? How much of a self-conscious sopping wet pussyman can you be OP?

[Anonymous No.18327134]

>>18325653
what were you both reading and was she cute

[Anonymous No.18327142]

>>18324930
Based af though I would have called her a stupid whore

[Anonymous No.18327160]

>>18324884
You idolise a drug addled nurjob that shot himself. At least be a proper fascist and not a weird esoteric haploautist

[Anonymous No.18327191]

>>18327109
Cope

[Anonymous No.18327200]

>>18327160
I see you aren't familiar with Kershaw. Seeth faggot.

[Anonymous No.18327215]

>>18321435
Isk. I guess it depends. I read on the train and in the park on my lunch break. Never really thought it was weird, nor have I ever been bothered (being ugly as sin helps). I think it would only be bizarre if you walk onto a bus that is only take you a few minutes down a road, and you start reading then when obviously thats not enough time to read much of anything. That would probably look like you're trying to impress people, but who pays that much attention to strangers? If I see someone doing something a little weird, but ultimately harmless, I dont spend much time thinking about it.

[Anonymous No.18327352]

>>18327134
Sputnik Sweetheart (she was enjoying it, I thought it was bad but not terrible); she was pretty cute (very cheerful). I probably would have gotten her number if I wasn't involved at the time.

[Anonymous No.18327364]

>>18327215
That fucking picture got me. It was the rat pun.

[Anonymous No.18327368]

>>18327215
KEK picrel

[Anonymous No.18327538]

>>18327364
>>18327368
It really is wonderful isnt it. Idk why he is so funny, but he is.

[Anonymous No.18328715]

>>18325653
I can't believe you bothered typing this

[Anonymous No.18329228]

Someone saw lovecraft on my book and asked if it was about "f##king and intercourse"

[Anonymous No.18329240]

>>18321435
Generally, a little bit; depending on what one reads, there will always be one or two people who outright judge you for it. Usually, if I read in public, I'll just do it unless it doesn't make sense for me to, like on a busy street, a crowded train car, et cetera. Speaking further to this point, one of my favourite places to read is a public place, the harbour in my city (Boston).

[Anonymous No.18329275]

>>18322252
For you

[Anonymous No.18329539]

>>18325749
>Here's someone more on your level:

[Anonymous No.18329546]

>>18321435
Is that a j*w on the op's pic?

[Anonymous No.18329547]

I’m American so unless I’m in Boston, New York, San Francisco, or some other college town, yes.

[Anonymous No.18329548]

>Do you feel weird reading in public?
>>18325805
>da joos
Why?

[Anonymous No.18329754]

>>18329228
Was it?

[Anonymous No.18329809]

No, although I feel a bit self-conscious whenever everyone else at the riverside is drinking and chatting with their friends, while I'm sitting down reading Ellul or whatever, with headphones on.
I am just wondering how some people think there is anything more anti-social than what I am doing at that moment.
Also, last time I was reading there, these two 40 year old fat cider whales decided to ruin my day by laying their asses on the same bench I was on, and decided to announce that I was getting company whether I wanted it or not.
There was plenty of space 100m away, people are just inconsiderate assholes and I despise humanity more and more each passing day, while also hitting myself over the head due to this, it is not healthy or righteous to have these thoughts.
All the small slights, banal evil and pettiness gets into my head and I am slowly falling into a deeper sinkhole of anhedonia.
But nobody cares, nobody ever cares.
Words are just noise.

[Anonymous No.18329819]

>>18325653
>For me...it was a Sunday.
Cringeyist shit I have read here in a while. It's like the navy seal copypasta but you meant it sincerely lol. What a big man you are in your brand name otr suits lol.

[Anonymous No.18330726]

>>18329548
>why?

It isn’t just me, anon.
109 countries.

If I got kicked out of 109 bars I’d start questioning my own behavior.

[Anonymous No.18330772]

>>18323182
based Based BASED!! :D

[Anonymous No.18330996]

>>18329809
I read all of this, anon. Read in the library. The less time you spend near or around others, the better you will feel.

[Anonymous No.18331094]

>>18329819
>Cringeyist shit I have read here in a while. It's like the navy seal copypasta but you meant it sincerely lol. What a big man you are in your brand name otr suits lol.
You sound jealous. I can tell because your insults have no depth, the bite is just restating what was written. Weak.

[Anonymous No.18331101]

>>18328715
Good one!

[Anonymous No.18331125]

>>18325653
based

[Anonymous No.18331235]

>>18329809
>All the small slights, banal evil and pettiness gets into my head and I am slowly falling into a deeper sinkhole of anhedonia.
I know. I've been there.
I'm still there in a sense.
There are better things. If you didn't like the fat women you should have just walk away.

[Anonymous No.18331426]

>>18330726
>109 countries
And what exactly this has to do with
>Do you feel weird reading in public?

[Anonymous No.18331865]

>>18321435
>reading on the beach
>big strong men playing water polo
>my charity shop copy of Sinning with Annie by Paul Theroux has loose pages, they begin blowing away in the sufficient coastal breeze
>I clamour to pick them up whilst everybody watches

[Anonymous No.18331949]

>>18331426
I was basically saying nobody has ever bothered me for reading a book on the subway.
Who would bother a white man for reading?
Voila the first suspect to spring to mind.

[Anonymous No.18331961]

>>18321435
Why would I? Explain.

[Anonymous No.18331964]

>>18331949
>Who would bother a white man for reading?
?
>DA JOOS
...ok...

[Anonymous No.18331979]

>>18321435
I feel weird doing anything in public, and nothing counts as a very strange something.

[Anonymous No.18332384]

>>18329809
Drinking is cringe as fuck, especially during the day.
Day drinking is literal NPC behavior. If you can do it it means there’s nothing going on in your head.
Be happy

[Kirby Kyle No.18332390]

>>18322260
holy, fucking, shit, nobody cares

[Anonymous No.18332406]

>>18331235
I did, but that is what gets to me.
It is so unnecesaary, all of it.
I don't want to seclude myself away to some concrete bunker to enjoy my small delights.
>>18330996
Thank you for reading all of it.
Ironically enough, the library is closed.
And there is not enough secluded sitting space there for me to enjoy a book, constant announcements, people shuffling about, the air conditioning blasting noise...
I have to either go to a tiny coffee shop and essentially pay an admission fee or travel to the far end of the city to find a nice quiet park bench, but then I'm accosted by drug dealers and cops (both of these have happened multiple times).
I just want to enjoy that one place of mine in peace. Funnily enough I was at the riverside just now, I have to go there at the evening to enjoy it in peace, brought myself a six-pack and just sat there drinking, smoking cigarettes and thinking.
Carved myself a friend as well.

[Anonymous No.18332418]

>>18322249
whom does feel weird for reading. whom.

[Anonymous No.18332421]

>>18332384
I don't have a problem with people enjoying their friendship with some drinks, it was a friday afternoon.
But why do you have to ruin someone else's moment with you forcing yourself upon them? That is the main issue, people just don't care.

[Anonymous No.18332443]

>>18329809
>I despise humanity more and more each passing day, while also hitting myself over the head due to this, it is not healthy or righteous to have these thoughts.
>All the small slights, banal evil and pettiness gets into my head and I am slowly falling into a deeper sinkhole of anhedonia.
This is the biggest hindrance to being theologically at ease, in my experience. Believing in God also necessitates belief in the 'divine spark' in mankind, a spark which is so utterly obscured and has been as far as we can reach back that it almost has to be imagined through feverish delusions rather than felt.

[Anonymous No.18332450]

I want to publish a book titled "I'm a Gay Idiot Who Reads Books" and the sequel would be " Please Think I'm Smart"

[Anonymous No.18332452]

>>18332418
what a weird way to troll

[Anonymous No.18332539]

>>18332443
I can't give in to God, I can't.
You have laid out the exact problem, I am so tied to this experience that I can't for the love of me to just let it go.
All the injustice I have commited, all the injustices that have been laid upon me, to just be reduced to nothingness. I refuse.
And it is even worse, I get teary eye'd seeing one of those stupid fucking Wojak/Jesus memes;
"Christ, why do you give me your toughest battles"
"Because you are my best soldier"
I can't accept that love, I fucking cannot accept it, for that would require me to love this world and all it's faults and I cannot do that.
I cannot accept that love.

[Anonymous No.18332693]

>>18331964
Now we’re back into 109 countries territory
Maybe their behavior has something to do with it
Just look what they’re doing to the poor Palestinians at the moment

[Anonymous No.18332836]

>>18321435
yea, it makes me feel pretentious

[Anonymous No.18332867]

>>18321457
>Some black woman tried to give me a staredown because I was reading Hitler Bio
she wanted the D

[Anonymous No.18332889]

i went to panera bread once and read maupassant in a pink sweater. fight me.

[Anonymous No.18333183]

>>18332384
Day tripping though, now that is an enlightened gentlemans behaviour.

[Anonymous No.18333187]

>>18321435
Nah because I'm a badass

[Anonymous No.18333192]

>>18332406
I wonder if a graveyard or something would be a suitable location

[Anonymous No.18333323]

>>18331094
Why would I be jealous of someone wearing midrange suits and living in what sounds like the shithole that is NYC (or maybe London? Just going off of the mention of a subway). We're not all awkward incels here; I'm happily married so the 'omg a girl talked to me there goes my spaghetti' canard doesn't apply.

[Anonymous No.18333458]

>>18333323
Wow, you're really obsessed with the suit, eh? It's like you see it as a superficiality but can't seem to articulate a proper insult.

Tell your wife I'm sorry and I hope she'll find strength after the divorce. Strangers on /lit are rooting for her.

[Anonymous No.18333584]

>>18327160
You're a stupid person

[Anonymous No.18333633]

>>18321435
No, it's one of the only places that you can read.

[Anonymous No.18333670]

>>18333584
your*

[Anonymous No.18333698]

I always feel weird in public

[Anonymous No.18334083]

>>18321435
"read in public" wtf is this fantasy
unless you are in a subway, girls will flock to you like a swarm of starving seagulls and pester you about the book
and even if they are likeable, they leave leaving you their number, expecting you to do all the work
tl;dr it's a pain

[Anonymous No.18334114]

>>18321435
No, because I read in public for the sole purpose of avoiding conversation or eye contact. Sometimes I'm not even registering what I'm reading at all but that's fine. Sometimes I read stuff I have no interest in whatsoever for a lack of anything else, but it still serves the underlying purpose

[Anonymous No.18334118]

>>18322286
anon I don't think there are any cute girls who even know, let alone care, who Aristotle is

[Anonymous No.18334131]

>>18334118
but they live it and that's what counts
t. Aristotle

[Anonymous No.18334191]

>>18333458
I just enjoy busting your balls, anon, since you're so convinced how great you are even though you're actually the very image of mediocrity.

[Anonymous No.18334267]

>be me
>wagecucking for piss change in a semitic company
>crawl home on bus
>pull out book because when i get home i am going to crash and i want to at least spend 30 minutes a day doing what i actually want to do instead of being ordered around by 26 year old whores who went to the "right" college and need me to do their job for them while they make twice as much as me
>start reading
>don't even get 2 pages in before some jackass pulls out his phone to snap a photo of me
>want to expend my energy and use the entire musculature of my body for once in my life to tear him asunder
>too tired
>try to keep reading, just feel uncomfortable

Fuck you dude.

[Anonymous No.18334292]

>>18331426
that anon is just a retard, anon. it was actually 1,030 countries.

why would it be related? aren't you a little paranoid?

[Anonymous No.18334370]

>>18334191
>I just enjoy busting your balls
Yeah, you're not very good at that. Try to get over your fixation on a stranger's balls and spend some time with your wife. (As I said, we're rooting for her!)

[Anonymous No.18334380]

>>18334370
And yet here you are giving me all these sweet (you)s. Good luck to you, mr. too-cool-for-the-rest-of-us anon!

[Anonymous No.18334406]

>>18334380
Not him, but you're pretty fucking lame anon. The guy dunked on your marriage multiple times and that's the best you came up with? Now I feel bad for your wife.

[Anonymous No.18334416]

>>18334406
HAHAHA based. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.18334619]

>>18334406
>>18334416
>samefagging this hard
do your parents a favor and kill yourself

[Anonymous No.18334775]

>>18321435
Yeah

[Anonymous No.18334792]

I read the Protocols and related stuff while sitting in the park across the street from a Jewish school.

[Anonymous No.18334966]

>>18321435
Yes, but be sure I'm afraid I'll drop or damage the book somehow. I like the condition of my books to look new.

[Anonymous No.18335031]

I don't go in public places, let alone read there

[Anonymous No.18335204]

>>18322286
Good for you. Believe it or not some people carry this kind of magical thinking into adulthood.
>>18329809
It is righteous in a humanitarian way. Behind the pretense and playact those women are deeply lonely and trying to nurture some retarded or unsatiable social need. Maybe draw some relief that your discomfort is that of absence, not hunger.
>>18331865
Delightful.
>>18332889
Which Maupassant? This dictates the conduct and implements of our duel monsieur.
>>18334267
Sorry anon, I hate hearing about that kind of stuff. Let it go, that exchange will never matter again unless you let it stay in your mind.
>>18333192
>Nicholas originally starting going to the cemetery to avoid that this much unwanted contact with other people. It was only while reading there, and quite without consideration, that the circumstances changed. He found himself selecting different tombstones to sit against day by day. By the end of June he was re-reading striking passages out loud. It was in mid-August he found he was now consistently reading aloud; unwittingly he'd become a sort of fabular dispatcher to the deceased.

[Anonymous No.18335216]

>>18332390
How would you know that?

[Anonymous No.18335983]

>>18334792
Based

[Anonymous No.18336022]

No, as I am not autistic. Nobody fucking cares.

[Anonymous No.18336102]

I do most of my reading out in the public, like at cafes or the beach. I don't give a shit if someone has a problem with me because I'm an ubermensch.

[Anonymous No.18336245]

>>18325653
This is the quality content I come here for.

[Anonymous No.18337458]

i just turn the book down so no one knows what im reading and cant make judgements about me

[Anonymous No.18337530]

>>18325653
This is a manly man everybody

[Anonymous No.18337578]

>>18325653
you just know this dude is a 120lb english"man"

[Anonymous No.18337620]

>>18324930
>not responding with "it's on the cover, bitch,"
>not doing a 360 and walking away
ngmi

[Anonymous No.18337626]

>>18321435
only when i was reading the golden ass, people kept trying to take a pictures of me

[Anonymous No.18337771]

>>18325852
>>18327142
>he ignored a girl! what a badass!
why are 4chan "men" so weak, yet so tryhard?

[Anonymous No.18338228]

>>18329809
I like how you write

[Anonymous No.18338538]

>>18335216
Because I care and I'm nobody.

[Anonymous No.18338583]

>>18321435
I don't mind reading in public. Did quickly stow this in my backpack as the bus I was on went through the orthodox jewish neighbourhood in my city though, didn't want to confront these people with their literal bogeyman kek, only because this large-ass picture of his face is plastered on the cover.

[Anonymous No.18339722]

>>18321435
I feel incredibly sexy reading in public and fuck everyone who thinks it's bad

[Anonymous No.18339797]

>>18339722
so if i came up to you and said you were being bad you would let me fuck you?

[Anonymous No.18340206]

>>18321435
Although it is regrettable that society does this less and less now, whenever the opportunity presents itself, I enjoy being one of the very few people still reading books in public instead of on a mobile phone or laptop, the latter category of which which most people do nowadays.

[Anonymous No.18340271]

>>18322252

[Anonymous No.18340327]

>>18325653
>For someone like you, that's probably on your top ten incel/nice guy /lit fantasy list. For me...it was a Sunday.
>For me...it was a Sunday.
Is this the new "i am euphoric" post?Jesus christ dude.
>i farded and shidded. For me...it was a Sunday.

[Anonymous No.18340590]

>>18321435
Yes, read in your home.

[Anonymous No.18340737]

>>18325108
The shit you just typed is just as cringy fuckhead. Stick your nose up a lil higher you won’t have to breathe this air.

[Anonymous No.18340843]

>>18340327
I was reading Evola while watching a waldun video. For me...it was a Sunday

[Anonymous No.18340948]

I'm always carrying a book under my arm in outings. I don't give a fuck.

[Anonymous No.18341223]

>>18327191
Keep fucking replying cocksucker

[Anonymous No.18341286]

>>18321457

Epic!

[Anonymous No.18341982]

>>18321435
yes

[Anonymous No.18342140]

>>18332384
Cope

[Anonymous No.18342873]

>>18339797
Yes

[Anonymous No.18342916]

>>18325817
normalfags don't know who that is

[Anonymous No.18342918]

>>18332384
This opinion is cringe as fuck.

[Anonymous No.18342949]

>>18325108
>>18322252
you have to go back

[Anonymous No.18344880]

>>18332384
Wrong. I drink to be happy. Nothing is more liberating than getting druk and enjoying the true freedom of life.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!

Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don't care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.

Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.

Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharp;
I alone am dull.
Other people have purpose;
I alone don't know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.

I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother's breasts.