/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10088941]

>be on a packed train
>I'm standing near a exit and reading a copy of Russell's History of Ancient Philosophy
>as we approach a stop, this black dude reaches for the door
>he glances over my book then at my face
>shakes his head and mutters "fucking Socrates over here"
>leaves

Is he right? Am I pretentious for reading on public transportation? Should I stick to a Kindle or, even more discreetly, read PDFs on my phone?

[Anonymous No.10088948]

>>10088941
Literally nothing wrong with reading in public transportation. It's the best place to read imo. Tons of people are reading books in subway in the place where I live(Russia).

[Anonymous No.10088955]

>>10088948
Reading on public transportation leaves me feeling goofy. This disjointed digesting of a book in 20-30 minute intervals twice a day makes my recollection and understanding of the book... I don't even know. Feels wrong.

[Anonymous No.10088960]

>>10088941
Random mentally ill person makes you question reading? You should quit all reading immediately, post-haste.


Don't hide that shit under a bushel basket. Inspire others, friend. Less screen time.

[Anonymous No.10088963]

>>10088948
Literally nothing more pretentious, more attention-seeking.

[Anonymous No.10088967]

You didnt have to bring race into this

[Anonymous No.10088970]

>>10088941
sounds pretty insecure to me

[Anonymous No.10088974]

>>10088941
I'd lick the grease off her face till I get obesity.

[Anonymous No.10088980]

>>10088974
bugs ... easy on the rape

[Anonymous No.10089012]

>>10088941
>History of Ancient Philosophy
>"fucking Socrates over here"
I think you're all missing the point. The guy called you out for not reading philosophy that's relevant for these times. If you weren't so insecure and looked around you you'd probably notice that he was reading Baudrillard's Fatal Strategies.

[Anonymous No.10089526]

>>10088941
>shakes his head and mutters "fucking Socrates over here"
That's hilarious. Are you so self-absorbed and lacking in confidence that you can't laugh at yourself?

[Anonymous No.10089529]

>>10088941
that never happened.

[Anonymous No.10089539]

>>10089526
... and at him, for that matter.

[Anonymous No.10089814]

>>10088963
Well what the fuck else am I supposed to do? Stare blankly at the other passengers who more often than not are disgusting excuses for human beans (I'm American, in a fat city) until I reach my stop feeling depressed about the absolute state of humanity when I could have escaped it all for that 30 minutes?

[Anonymous No.10089816]

>>10089012
Unironically this

[Anonymous No.10089822]

>implying someone who knows about Socrates would ever admonish you for reading

Most people don't even know who Plato is these days.

[Anonymous No.10089836]

i only read pulp, easy reading trash on public transport. pic related.

I couldn't concentrate on the deep and edgy stuff on a train

[Anonymous No.10089846]

>>10088955
Restricting reading to any one circumstance usually also restricts my ability to recall it to that same circumstance. Similar to state dependant memory when drinking.

[Anonymous No.10089854]

>>10088970
OP is the insecure one. He had to come vent on here over a non-problem

[Anonymous No.10089866]

>>10088963
God damn it your life must suck. You have to realize that out there in the real world no one gives a flying fuck about you and that YOU are the ONLY one thinking that reading in public is pretentious simply because you're insecure and autistic. Grow up.

[Anonymous No.10089872]

>>10089529
I believe it.
I live in a backwater village full of drunks, smokers, fat, and obese people, more often than not all four in a person.

I was taking a quick jog, running past a bunch of people like these, who were (who would've guessed it) drinking in front of a pub.
It was dark already, in the evening.
I overheard a bunch of them unironically calling me a madman or something to that effect, probably mocking me for not treating my body like a trashcan.

Joke's on them though, this memory doesn't bring my confidence down, but quite the opposite.

[Anonymous No.10089880]

>>10088941
>America.txt

[Anonymous No.10089893]

>>10089866
anon.. easy on the projection..

[Anonymous No.10089914]

>>10089872
You don't get it. They called you a madman because you were jogging. What activity could better signify the meaninglessness of modern life than running for the sake of getting tired? In the past people ran when they had to.

[Anonymous No.10089934]

>>10089914
I was going to say "try harder" but this was one of the weakest, most milquetoast posts I have seen lately that I'm beginning to question whether it was your intention to bait at all, or if you just tried to make a bad joke and I didn't get it.

[Anonymous No.10089952]

>>10089893
/lit/ memes were a mistake

[Anonymous No.10089972]

>>10089952
when you get memed on by /lit/ you have a surprise lol

[Anonymous No.10090014]

>>10089934
I thought it was obvious that it's just a stupid joke. I find the hypothesis that all these "dumb people" are actually giving you shit because they're even more intellectually smug than you somewhat more entertaining than your insecure whining about them.

[Anonymous No.10090020]

>>10090014
I'll take your word for it, anon.

[Anonymous No.10090021]

>>10089822
>plato

and this is why you aren't an intellectual

[Anonymous No.10090032]

>>10090014
>Insecure whining
I was mentioning my similar and very relevant experience. No need to be a faggot.

[Anonymous No.10090036]

>>10090021
Platon?

[Anonymous No.10090044]

Dude I'm on 3 weeks nofap don't post this shit on a blue board.

[Anonymous No.10090048]

>>10090044
>nofap

But why?

[Anonymous No.10090053]

>>10090044
okay

[Anonymous No.10090056]

>>10090044
NoFap is retarded you dumb faggot.

[Anonymous No.10090061]

>>10088941
I work on the side while studying because I couldn't afford to live in the city with student aid. I always bring a book to work. A few weeks ago I was reading a generic black cover book (I had taken the papers off to avoid them tearing in my stuffed backpack) during lunch and some brainlet commented with "oh wow look at this guy reading the bible over here". The book wasn't even thick.

Then again I already make 4€ more per hour than he does, and he's a guy in his 50s working manual labor while I'm a college student paying bills so if anything his comment made me feel good about myself.

[Anonymous No.10090070]

>>10088941
He's mocking you because you're reading "History of Ancient Philosophy," not because you're reading in public

[Anonymous No.10090076]

>>10088963
>t. zero self-confidence

[Anonymous No.10090077]

>>10090061
You go, anon.

[Anonymous No.10090093]

>>10090044
>3 weeks
1 week is optimal due to how hormones work. Also, what's the point of doing it if not developing enough self-discipline that you can actually look at these images, get aroused, and do nothing about it?

[Anonymous No.10090105]

>>10090044
I remember doing 6 months of nofap once and having my test levels plummet. I couldn't even stay hard when I finally had sex again. Since then I've masturbated 1-2 times a week (without porn) to keep my t levels up.

[Anonymous No.10090108]

>>10090053
this is just like that part in HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS where RON has to destroy a HORCRUX and sees a FALSE VISION of HARRY and HERMIONE engaging in HEAVY PETTING, about to GET IT ON.

tl;dr you cannot defile my waifu. i know your deception, o fork-tongued-one.

[Anonymous No.10090117]

>>10090044
>do nofap
>ejaculate in your sleep anyway

[sin No.10090127]

>>10088941
Why can't you fuckers just buy huge rolls of brown craft paper and use it to cover your books with? If you're this insecure about people scrutinizing you for your literary tastes, you should have done this by now.

[Anonymous No.10090160]

Reading in public should be the new counterculture to people browsing phones and being obnoxious about social media. If only to piss them off even further and to make them feel inferior.

[Anonymous No.10090171]

>>10090160
It already is.

[Anonymous No.10090172]

>>10090117
You are missing the point

[Anonymous No.10090173]

>>10090108
kek

[Anonymous No.10090260]

>>10090171

Show proof.
If anything literature is on the way out unless it has a shitty movie or TV show advertising it while people are adopting science as a belief ironically being atheists and these are probably the same people who couldn't scrap at least a C in High School science.

[Anonymous No.10090270]

>>10090108
But its your hand and you are married to her.

[Anonymous No.10090382]

[Anonymous No.10090424]

>>10090260
Not him but every day I see somebody reading a book on the train. It's not that rare even in the smartphone age.

[Anonymous No.10090615]

>things that never happened- the post

[Anonymous No.10090821]

>>10088941
Pretty sure those are the edges of her nipples

[Anonymous No.10090842]

>>10090821
Desperate to get out

[Anonymous No.10090864]

>>10090821
Most intellectual post ITT

[Anonymous No.10091177]

>>10090056
You should try it sometime to see yourself.
There is something to it

[Anonymous No.10091186]

>>10090821
>>10090864
The maturity and intelligence of a /lit post can be measured by how much the poster is able to resist commenting on the sexuality of an OP image (unless it is the subject of the post), and I must say, you have failed miserably.

[Anonymous No.10091264]

>>10090821
get a girlfriend you waste of sperm

[Anonymous No.10091298]

>>10091264
it's better that his is wasted rather than put to good use

[Anonymous No.10091496]

>>10088941
Work on your fiction writing. It's not a believable scenario. There's plenty of people who read on public transit, everywhere. It would have been believable if, perhaps, the black dude was your friend or colleague simply razzing you.

[Anonymous No.10091529]

>>10088941
He was just being facetious, maybe even complimenting you.

I wouldn't worry about it.

Just bee urself.

[Anonymous No.10091847]

>>10091264
>>10091298
gay

[Anonymous No.10091860]

>>10091847
undisciplined

[Anonymous No.10091869]

>>10088963
>reads to impress other people
kill self pls
What the fuck am I going to do for 8 hours in train?

[Anonymous No.10091898]

>>10090127
Are you that guy who would read that manual on tantric sex in public?

[Anonymous No.10091900]

All these posts and not one person was able to identify this as a riff on an old meme. Anyways, would love to lick the sweat from underneath her tits.

[Anonymous No.10092021]

>>10088941
Russell wrote "A History of Western Philosophy." You fucking retard.

If you're going to make up stories that never happened at least make sure you have your details right.

[Anonymous No.10092098]

>>10088941
You are on /lit/.
It's a given that you, as a person, are pretentious.
Where you are or what you're doing doesn't really matter.

[Anonymous No.10092173]

>Reading Bertrand Russell
you deserved it

[Anonymous No.10092187]

>>10092173
OP already has enough problems with insecurity, don't make it worse.

[Anonymous No.10093532]

>>10088963
Kill yourself. I mean it. If you have to catch public transport, and you like to read, there is no fucking excuse for not doing so. And if you actually care about what others think, you're a fucking pleb anyway

[Anonymous No.10093737]

>>10091496
>a completely believable situation is not believable
>in fact, 2 more similar ones in this very thread

Your opinion is wrong.

[Anonymous No.10093871]

>>10090036
Nah, mate. You have to write it in greek Πλάτων. And randomly say things like ἀγορά and shit.

[Anonymous No.10093878]

>>10090070
Yea, he should only read rap lyrics. Tupac is the best poet, isn't he?

[Anonymous No.10093880]

>>10090127
After using brown paper bags for public drinking, americans have to use brown paper bags for books now?

[Anonymous No.10093889]

>>10091186
>im le mature intellectual floating above the carnality of lowly wenches meme
suck my uncut dick my you cumhuzzling nincompoop

[Anonymous No.10093915]

>>10088941

[Anonymous No.10093925]

>>10088941
don't give a fuck, do what you want - i thought this at least had become a moral standard for 4channers.

[Anonymous No.10093928]

>>10088941
WHY?! WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO WITH THESE JEZEBELS? All I want to do is come here for an asexual experience that will exercise my brain but I am constantly titillated by these vixens with their prodigious hips and provocative figures. Can I never satiate this thirst, will I ever know the touch of a woman and enter between her loins? Will my seed ever drip from her moistened hole?

Life is a constant hell. No wonder I resent women too.

[Anonymous No.10093938]

>>10093928
good post

[Anonymous No.10094115]

>>10088941
Don't worry anon, maybe you were in the way? It's not pretentious to read in public, reading on public transportation is the best

[Anonymous No.10094144]

>>10091860
ease up dude

[Anonymous No.10094159]

Yeah I hate that shit too

>tfw always read on the bus to work
>the bus is filled with Somalians because I live in a European city
>sometimes the Somalians look at me and make comments in Somalian, and sometimes in broken english
>reading pic related the other day
>somalian sitting next to me
>looks at me
>grabs the fucking book and closes it to look at the cover
>laughs at me
>'YOU READ CRAB BECAUSE YOU SISTER SMELL FISHY'
>hits the book onto the floor
>I feel like i have to apologise and put the book away

I mean what the fuck can I do? People feel threatened by my learnededness I guess

[Anonymous No.10094179]

>>10090044
Fapping is fine so long as you take it easy, and only do 1-2 a week like >>10090105 said. Porn is what you have to watch out for

[Anonymous No.10094181]

>>10088955
frog must have ran out of piss bottles

[Anonymous No.10094189]

>>10088941
Except this didn't happen, did it? Nobody took the slightest bit of notice of you. So you had to project your anxiety and prejudice onto an internet message board.
No one gives a fuck what you read or where you read it, you silly juvenile rascist tosser.

[Anonymous No.10094219]

>>10094159
but does she?

[Anonymous No.10094243]

[Anonymous No.10094249]

>>10090044
>blue balls on a blue board
P O T T E R Y
O
T
T
E
R
Y

[Anonymous No.10094326]

>>10094159
how beta can you get

[Anonymous No.10094469]

>>10094159
why do all somalians act mentally retarded

[Anonymous No.10094507]

>>10090056
>10090056
It's a fascinating experience. Sometimes I'd just like to do a month of no fap all over again. Not fapping just turns you into something quite different

[Anonymous No.10094512]

>>10094469
Because most of them are (i.e. sub 80 iq)

[Anonymous No.10094609]

He's the one in the wrong, and he's acting like a child about it.

He clearly tried to insult you though, you shouldn't have let him.

[Anonymous No.10094634]

>>10093889
Lel, did I trigger you? Well you're wrong about one thing: I love women. I might actually be obsessed with them. They're what I mainly write about nowadays.
But I can still hold back from the need to comment on their sex appeal when it's not pertinent.

[Anonymous No.10094652]

>>10089880
They look so happy :3

[Anonymous No.10094655]

>>10088980
why did i kek

[Anonymous No.10094738]

>>10088948
You can't compare a patrician country like Russia to America, the most illiterate country that has ever existed.

[Anonymous No.10094769]

considering he knows who socrates is (and pronounced it right) i'd laugh desu

it's your classic "reading? lmao fuckin nerd" joke that never goes out of style

[Anonymous No.10094772]

>>10089814
>>10089866
>>10090076
>>10091869
>>10093532

>Posting on /lit/
>Failing this hard at recognizing simple sarcasm

[Anonymous No.10094823]

>>10094634
i'd say those big bazonkas are pretty pertinent compared to the rest of the garbage ITT

[Anonymous No.10094835]

>>10091186
If you come to this website for anything but getting your rocks of, you're doing it wrong

[Anonymous No.10094845]

>read on the bus
>get headache
>feel nauseous

how do you guys do it

[Anonymous No.10095100]

>be me
>reading a book on the subway train
>this black dude wearing a comically large cheetah print tank top comes over
>stares at the cover of my book for a good few seconds
>"I am, but what are you?"
>feel confused
>I remember the title of the book I'm reading and get it
>"oh. good for you"
>"ug ug has to go, me happy of meeting you"
>he sprints away while grunting and swinging his wooden club

[Anonymous No.10095120]

>be me
>reading a book on the subway train
>this black dude wearing a comically large cheetah print tank top comes over
>stares at the cover of my book for a good few seconds
>"I am, but what are you?"
>feel confused
>I remember the title of the book I'm reading and get it (pic related)
>"oh. good for you"
>"ug ug has to go, me happy of meeting you"
>he sprints away while grunting and swinging his wooden club

[Anonymous No.10095167]

>>10095120
post of the day

[Anonymous No.10095184]

>>10089836
if u read literary fiction and call it pulp i bet u is real smard

[Anonymous No.10095270]

>>10090061
Has anyone here read a religious text on public transport? What kind of reactions did you get, if any?

[Anonymous No.10095285]

>>10094772
>Posting on /lit/
>Failing hard at recognizing post-ironic, woke bait-baiting

[Anonymous No.10095316]

>>10090821

[Anonymous No.10095342]

>>10091186
Queen Victoria's dead man.

[Anonymous No.10095379]

>>10094634
>Woman wears dress emulating a bodice showing 80% of her chest with a fucking choker and hair "sloppily" raised to accentuate the neck.
>Her sexuality isn't pertinent you barbarians

[Anonymous No.10095423]

>>10095379
Pertinent to the topic of discussion, retard.

[Anonymous No.10095623]

>>10088941
You offended that nigger's mega-patrician tastes. I would like to know what book he's got on his nightstand right now.

[Anonymous No.10095785]

>>10095423
The topic of discussion fucking blows. The picture is interesting.

[Anonymous No.10095791]

>>10095785
this tbqh familia

I mean who tf cares what people think about your reading habits you neurotic nerds.

[Anonymous No.10095807]

>>10088941
Tell him to go pick cotton and shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.10095809]

>>10088941
>A nigger doesn't like to read

Im shocked, truly i am.

[Anonymous No.10095810]

>>10095791
hnnnnnnnng loving those tits and nice nips

[Anonymous No.10095812]

>>10095785
Okay I'll give you that.

[Anonymous No.10095814]

>>10095623
Slangin hood-rats part 2: electric boogaloo

A masterful work that i had the pleasure of discovering from the bongobongo bookclub.

[Anonymous No.10095925]

>over 100 replies to a racebait thread and a made up story

[Anonymous No.10096013]

>>10094159
I know this is fake, but I want you to know that you faked it perfectly.

[Anonymous No.10096274]

>>10095120
wew lad

[Anonymous No.10096303]

>>10088967
go back to tumblr, you nigger faggot

[Anonymous No.10096341]

>>10088941
HOW IT REALLY WENT DOWN
>anon is on a packed train
>anon's book is being held on his side
>he raises his arm in a completely horizontal and exaggerated movement to bring it to eye level
>everyone around him has to make adjustments as his arm rises past them towards his eyes
>his arm fully outstretched, he must fold the front cover over before he begins reading
>he creases it right down the middle without regret and cracks the spine for good measure
>now the page is in front of his face his eyes start to dart around rapidly. Anon hopes people will notice
>'wow is he really reading it that fast?'
>anon isnt reading at all
>the whole time the train is moving he's looking around at people and when they make eye contact he looks back into his books and starts darting those eyes around again
>finally the stop comes
>a hard working and observant black man who has noticed his behavior is getting ready to leave
>when the train finally stops, anon actually starts to read the words on the page
>anon doesnt even notice that he's blocking everyone's path from entering or exiting
>this patient, hardworking, and observant black man gives him a moment before he nudges his way through
>this patient, hardworking, intelligent, and observant black man glances down at the book title at the top of the page
>"fucking Socrates over here"

["Anonymous" No.10096764]

>>10089012
I bet it was the same black guy who chastized that other Anon for reading Plato.

[Anonymous No.10096893]

>>10096341
>10 min pass, no other comments
>people pointedly looking away
>anon shouts, "I AM READING Russell's History of Ancient Philosophy!!!"
>backpack falls off lap
>16 copies of mint condition Russell's History of Ancient Philosophy spill out

[Anonymous No.10096953]

>>10094181

[Anonymous No.10096956]

>>10089814
look out the window idiot

[Anonymous No.10097089]

>>10096341
the chad reader

[Anonymous No.10097270]

i feel like this was just unnecessary

[Anonymous No.10097358]

>>10090056
Not fapping makes me do degenerate things like sending weird text messages to girls i don't even care about. The lust for fuck is the worst thing to live with and the only way to get free of this is to masturbate once every 2 or 4 days.
Otherwise i act like a dumb man

No fap is not the same as no porn, people should understand that

[Anonymous No.10097488]

>>10091186
*tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.10097782]

>>10096956
>reading is for idiots
>staring at nothing for the entire trip is for smart people
As you say, buddy. Don't forget to change your diaper.

[Anonymous No.10097942]

>>10088963
>The virgin reader

[Anonymous No.10099540]

>Black man knows who Socrates is
>Black man knows what a book is

This is b8.

[Anonymous No.10099557]

>>10088941
I hoped she might be a pornstar