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>reading on the train
Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?

>> No.21240669

bugs.. easy on the carrots..

>> No.21240672

>>21240664
Reading on the moon

>> No.21240702

>>21240664
>doesn't use his available time for as much as he can
You're the retard here bro

>> No.21240770

>>21240664
>reading
Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?

>> No.21240773

>>21240664
I hope this is bait old fella

>> No.21240776

>>21240664
I usually wrap my book in newspaper and unfold it when reading in public. Way less cringe that way.

>> No.21240782

>>21240664
What else are you gonna do? You’re on a train. YOU’RE the weird one for thinking it’s for attention seeking. Regular people read on the train cause it’s a good time to read. YOURE the weirdo for overthinking what other people will think of you.

>> No.21241173

I feel very cringy using my Kindle in public, but I'm commuting 1h one-way, so it's a perfect time

>> No.21241183

>>21240669
fpbp

>> No.21241390

I used to do a lot of reading for class on the train. I did not give a shit about what anyone around me thought. Why do you seem to care so much?

>> No.21241458
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>>21240664
What's more, I move a pen under the line I'm reading so my eyes don't tire out, that's how much I read. Aren't I so hashtag dark academia sapiosexual?

>> No.21241620

>>21240664
>Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?
Posting on 4chan

>> No.21241651

>>21240664
Being cool-looking is a necessary downside of doing cool stuff sometimes. It's like carrying a bouquet of flowers to your girlfriend's apartment. You look like a showoff but there's no other way to get the flowers to her.

>> No.21241736

>>21240664
>>21240669
This. This is /lit/'s sole contribution to society. A shitty l*ddit meme that died within a couple of weeks.
Whereas, /sci/ solves unsolved mathematical problems for fun; /pol/ directly influences the discourse within contemporary politics and pushes its Overton window; /tv/ invents real memes (picking up /b/'s baton after it decided to focus on pornography) that quite possibly may last forever; professional musicians post on /mu/; and other boards focus on what they're actually devoted to; /lit/ can't even be bothered to fucking read.
Truly, this is the shittiest board of all time.

>> No.21241837
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21241837

>>21241736
We read. Relax.
This board like all things is of mixed quality like sugar and sand.
Take a breather and decide on something to do before the day is out.

>> No.21241853

>>21240776
Kinda pathetic

>> No.21241939

>>21240664
What if I'm using an e-reader?

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>>21240664
>random reads on the train because it's a boring journey
>doesn't bother anyone
>retard still is annoyed and thinks it's attention seeking
>posts about it to gain attention
Congratulations, you played yourself. How about you start reading instead of complaining.

>> No.21242012

>>21241939
not reading, eyes need to move and READ THE WORDS

>> No.21242016

>>21240664
>paying attention to what random strangers do on the train
Is there anything more pathetic, more meaningless?

>> No.21242017

>>21240664
>caring what npc 3rd worlders on public transit think of you
HA

>> No.21242539
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>>21241837
>This board like all things is of mixed quality like sugar and sand.
what a poetic way to put it, very nice anon

>> No.21242925

>>21242539
It's not mine. It's Mahavatar Babaji's

>> No.21243273

sometimes it's hard to believe /lit/ is only known for chungus

>> No.21243377

>>21241837
Nope, sorry but he's right.
Try discussing any book that isn't High School reading and see where it gets you (you'll have enough trouble with the High School books as it is).

>> No.21243379

>>21240664
i just fucking like reading my nigga

>> No.21243586
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>be me, more than 10 years ago
>reading a book on the subway
>two approximately 16 y.o. thug kids see me
>make fun of me for reading
>call me a nerd and a bookworm
>throw their trash at me and threaten to beat me
>the next stop I leave the subway and run away crying
This is why I will never be able to read again in public.

>> No.21243613

OP's ego is so fragile that seeing some girl read a self-help book on the train seems pretentious to him.

>> No.21243637

>>21241736
>"With a solved captcha, you can post anything you want," he said to himself, out loud.

>> No.21243645

>>21241736
Our self criticism makes us the most worthy.

>> No.21243650

>>21243637
This is probably the most popular/lit/ meme but I'm not actually sure if it was originally posted to /lit/

>> No.21243693
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>> No.21243727

>>21240664
Tf? What else am I meant to do on a train?

>> No.21244086

>>21243727
I just sit
silence is where the genius resides

>> No.21244180

you'll never get any good reading done on the train. not unless you hang your forearms off your legs with the book held up in the middle, and really lean into it. But then you're bent almost double over, and you look ridiculous—but that's the only way. Otherwise you're what: looking down, your head at a little incline, with the book perched in your lap? Impossible. The letters will be like little ants from that distance, you'll waste all your focus in making out their shape, rather than relishing their meaning.

>> No.21244185

>>21240669
fpbp
/thread

>> No.21244204

>>21241736
>/sci/
>contributing anything to anyone ever

at least we are self aware we're the "they dont know" meme

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>>21244086
Real ones get out overly elaborate train-themed board games and force other passengers to play with you

>> No.21244563

>>21240664
And what do you do on the train, o based one?

>> No.21244573

>>21244180
What could you possibly have meant by this? Have you ever been on the inside of a train? You just sit down in a chair and hold a book up to read it. It's the exact same as reading on your couch at home. What the actual fuck are you on about?

>> No.21244603

>>21242012
>your eyes don't move when you're reading an e-reader
What are you on about? What the fuck am I reading? Is everyone in this thread just out of their minds? Am I being gaslit? There's nothing wrong with reading on train, it's not impossible to read on a train, it doesn't look pretentious to read on a train, and you don't HOLD YOUR EYES ON THE SAME POINT ON A SCREEN WHEN YOU READ AN E-READER. HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK DO YOU THINK E-READERS WORK? YOU HAVE TO MOVE YOUR FUCKING EYES TO READ ON AN E-READER BECAUSE IT'S SET UP THE SAME WAY THE PAGE OF A BOOK IS SET UP. IT'S SET UP THE SAME WAY THE PAGE OF A BOOK IS SET UP. YOU HAVE TO MOVE YOUR EYES ALONG THE LINES OF THE PAGE TO READ, EVEN ON AN E-READER. I AM LITERALLY GOING INSANE BY READING THE STUPID SHIT IN THIS THREAD

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I find i get my best reading done on public transport actually. I find the movement of the vehicle and the view out the window from my peripheral vision to be just the right amount of extra stimulation needed to really focus on what I'm reading. I often catch the train or bus specificallly to read, it gets me out of the house and its a very pleasant experience. Nice bait thread though OP.

>> No.21244675

>>21244573
Nonsense. Hold up the book? The minute strain on the muscles of the forearm is too much of a distraction, you might as well be pinching yourself with a clothespin; it doesn't really hurt at all, but it's there, and it's enough to make the mind useless. At home on the couch you use the armrest, you lean into it, it's effortless. You're obviously not a reader. None of the greats ever read in the way you described; they either poured into the book over a desk, or lounged into it on a ottoman. For reading to be possible, Man must first get away from his usual struggle with gravity: he must sink into something, and thereby forget his body, become pure mind.

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>>21244204
You can't be this new. That anon is referencing this:
>On September 26, 2011, an anonymous user on /sci/ posted a question regarding the shortest possible way to watch all possible orders of episodes of the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in nonchronological order. Shortly after, an anonymous user responded with a mathematical proof that argued viewers would have to watch at least 93,884,313,611 episodes to see all possible orderings. 7 years later, professional mathematicians recognized the mathematical proof as a partial solution to a superpermutations problem that was unsolved for 25 years. Australian mathematician Greg Egan later published a proof inspired by the proof from the anonymous 4chan user, both of which are recognized as significant advances to the problem.[148]

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>>21240669
Fpbp

>> No.21244947

>>21240669
/lit/ has never recovered

>> No.21245413

>>21241736
/his/ is unironically worse

>> No.21245455

>>21245413
how

>> No.21245643

>>21245455
None of /his/ actually read either of theology or historiography.
None of /his/ actually read works comprised on a theological or historiographical basis.
/his/ actively reads books constructed on non-theological and non-historiographical bases: ie: Irving grade shit.
/his/ actively promotes narratives counter to the very purpose of Knowing God through his revelations in Text or Knowing the past through reading the documentary record of the past.
/his/ actively avoids reading text in context or text in meta- / hyper-text.
/his/ needs to be taken out the back, prayed over, and then shot by Red Guards.

I'm not joking. And the only reasonable disagreement someone could have with me is whether the guards need to be Red or Black.

>> No.21245646

>>21241736
Pynchon posts on here...

>> No.21245651

>>21241173
Use the Kindle app nigga

>> No.21245659

>>21243586
You should have stood up to them like a man. Or you know, just not let strangers hurt your feelings, also like a man.

>> No.21245699

>>21241837
>We read.
Nice joke.

>> No.21245722

>more pretentious, more attention-seeking
than riding a train? who can afford to ride a train?

>> No.21245761

>>21245722
The homeless, thugs, and perverts apparently.

>> No.21245766

>>21244714
awesome!

>> No.21245769

>>21240664
I read on busses not for attention but because I did it every day and the ride is boring.

>> No.21245851

>>21241736
Nah the lack of reputation for /lit/ is because not enough people read you're a truly fucked cunt if you don't appreciate literature

>> No.21247243

>>21241736
pol is satire and sci is full of high school retards lol

>> No.21248509

>>21240664
>is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking
Your thread.

>> No.21248649

>>21245659
This.

>> No.21249073

>>21241736
/mu/ here, the board is very dead we don't even have a focus on music anymore rather more on celebrities now

>> No.21249101

>>21249073
Remix Australian Crawl Boys Light Up versus Brian Eno Sky Saw

>> No.21249120

>>21244714
of course its fucking Haruhi lmao

>> No.21249614

>>21247243
And yet they still mogg /lit/. Crazy that.

>> No.21249632

>>21240770
this

>> No.21249732

>>21241736
Keyed

>> No.21250401

>>21241736
Good post, /lit/ is a dead board.

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21250402

>read on my smartphone
>people think I'm just another phone tech-addicted faggot instead of the intellectual I truly am

>> No.21250418

>>21241736
um actually chogus is a based and important meme retard

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>>21240664
My phone ran out of battery. What am I gonna do then? Stare intensely into the eyes of the person sitting across me?

>> No.21251446

>>21250591
take a siesta idiot