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I always carry one novel, one poetry anthology, and usually an anthology of trashy comic books.

I don't carry these in my arms, obviously. That would be weird. I use a backpack or a messenger bag.

>> No.2402250

I don't always carry stuff with me. If I'm in a position of sudden boredom I might read some wiki/stanford/IEP on my phone. If I do carry stuff around, it's usually a single book or my Kindle. What's glorious about the Kindle is that I can also mail my own writings to it so I can reread what I've written in comfort during train rides and such.

>> No.2402251

>>2402250

>I am a pretentious technocrat

>> No.2402260

I don't read outside of my home because I'm yet to find a bag in which paperbag covers do not become creased or damaged.

>> No.2402261

>>2402251
or maybe he just doesnt want his shit creased and ruined

>> No.2402264

I have an oversized jacket with inside pockets. I usually have something tucked in there.

>> No.2402265

>>2402261
Or maybe bad taste inheres in his character, like it does in yours.
Kindles are basically marks of stupidity, vulgarness, simplemindedness and a plebeian nature. Just like "tablets" and similar novelty gadgets (all gadgets are mere novelties).

>> No.2402266

>>2402265
Get with the times daddy-o

>> No.2402267

>>2402266
Fuck you, "sonny jim".

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2402268

>>2402266

>Get with the times
>Implying that doing what's popular is always correct

>> No.2402271

>>2402268
>implying that was my argument. You type this out on a fucking typewriter you fucking hippy piece of shit?

>> No.2402274

>>2402271
>hippy
What is progress? For you, it's maximization of output, minimization of input.
The logical conclusion to that is one button to do everything, you don't need to get up from your chair/toilet/life support unit.
Just press the button and you will be fed by a robot, a sex robot will ride your dick and a TV will pop up in front of you.
A society where people who aren't atrophied basement dwellers who rely on machines will be ridiculed.

You are the antithesis of "human".

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2402277

>>2402265
>3000 novels snugly inside coat pocket
>vulgar
>carrying around heaps of shit like a pack animal
>patrician

Nope. Unless you have an actual slave to carry your stuff, traveling light and minimizing. Also, you would do well to learn the difference between gadgets and important, lasting technological changes. But then I guess you're the type of guy to call a smartphone a useless gadget but manages to own a typewriter without shame.

>> No.2402279

>>2402274
The thesis of mad is you.

>> No.2402281

>>2402274
What a fucking straw man attack nigger. Just because I'm defending the idea of hte 'kindle' doesn't mean I'm endorsing a Brave New World you fucking truther. I agree with Bloom that it's too easy to be drowned in information now, but still for many people a kindle is just fucking easier, as in going on holidays, etc. I only read physical novels but I don't really give a fuck about the kindle or the fags I know who use it

>> No.2402284

>>2402281
Not standing up to Hitler is 'easier'.
Shitting where you sit is 'easier'.
Only caring to survive the collapse of civilization instead of building a world that future generations would enjoy living in is 'easier'.
Destroying instead of creating is 'easier'.
Being you instead of a good person is 'easier'.

>> No.2402286

>>2402284
You just went full retard. I'm out.

>> No.2402290

>>2402284
This man is right. I'm not tolerating dictatorship and fascism, that's why I write my romantic poetry on a vintage Underwood.

>> No.2402291

>>2402290
100% this only not sarcastic.

>> No.2402295

>>2402291
>implying I was sarcastic
>implying I don't even write my schoolwork on my typewriter even if my teachers don't like it
>implying I'm not an ascetic
>implying I own more than a typewriter, bed, clothes, iphone and a macbook pro

>> No.2402300

>>2402295
>>implying I don't even write my schoolwork on my typewriter even if my teachers don't like it
I do this too, brofist.

I like your attitude, but the apple products contradict it a bit.

>> No.2402318

>>2402300

Apple makes great, beautiful products. Works of art. Steve Jobs was a Zen Buddhist, which you can see in his works.

>> No.2402486

>>2402247

In an attempt to re-focus this thread OP I usually carry around my collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories in my bad.

>> No.2402487

>>2402486

*bag.

>> No.2402489

I always carry a book, mainly so I can avoid eye contact with anybody around me.

>> No.2402503

There's only 2 different sizes of paperbacks that are ever published. I usually have the smaller one in my pocket. The actual book changes once I've read it. I'm always pissed when I don't have a small book to carry :(( it usually means i have to actually look out the window on the bus. fuck that shit.

>> No.2402507

I can't read in public, it makes me nervous.

>> No.2402512

what the fuck, why would you always carry the same literature around. OP wants to be noticed, it is the talentless equivalent of carrying an acoustic guitar around to get chicks

>> No.2402516

OP is a baby. oh look at me i carry book in my gay man purse messenger bag. what? you dont like books? i got a book, im a 16 y.o .existentialist, nihilist atheist, satre nische im so deep, I shape my identity around this physical object