MTrip
Well-known member
For those of us who are educated & of a curious frame of mind, yeah. We do read in public for a few reasons. One of them being, quite frankly, that ordinary people are boring as hell. They usually want to talk about stuff in their parochial little lives such as what they watched on TV last night, who they're having problems with at their job, etc. We are not interested in that. We are interested in whatever it is we're reading. In my case it's usually history or cultural criticism.
Incidentally, reading in public isn't the worst manners to have. One can always sit upwind from you & smoke a cigarette instead. That would piss me off more than someone else reading any day of the week.
Incidentally, reading in public isn't the worst manners to have. One can always sit upwind from you & smoke a cigarette instead. That would piss me off more than someone else reading any day of the week.