

When I read, I am able to block out whatever is happening around me to a large extent, so reading while in a crowded noisy environment like a bar is relatively easy for me. I read in bars because I read everywhere unless I’m with another person and talking to them. One of the but whyyyyyy commenters raises the question “what if she’s reading in a bar.” I would like to address this particular situation with an example to support my argument, which goes “SHE’S STILL READING, YOU DELIBERATELY OBTUSE FUCK.” Because it’s Jez, the commenters going YES, THIS, PLEASE STOP DOING THIS outnumber the BUT I WAAAAAANT TO commenters, but it’s still subject to Lewis’s Law. There’s an article over at Jezebel about this eternally infuriating phenomenon, and the comments are about what you might expect.


I loved it then and I love it now, so thank you very much for taking the time to make it. This post originally appeared on tumblr in 2015 (thus the unprofessional use of expletives) and racked up a lot of likes and reblogs, one of which was tumblr user one-thousand-wordsworth’s amazing cover for a book mentioned in the post.
