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Anonymous Thu Feb 20 12:47:30 2014 No.4588593 [DELETED]

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Is it socially acceptable to read Lolita in public?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 12:50:28 2014 No.4588605 Yes it's a classic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 12:51:28 2014 No.4588610 yes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 12:52:28 2014 No.4588611 I've been doing it. I'm socially acceptable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 12:54:28 2014 No.4588616 Only if you wear baggy trousers to disguise your erection.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 12:56:28 2014 No.4588620 When in a public situation I prefer to study its subject matter more directly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 12:56:28 2014 No.4588621 >>4588616 This. Even normalfags find Lolita erotic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 13:01:29 2014 No.4588632 Only if you're an actual < 13 girl

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 13:02:28 2014 No.4588634 >>4588632 Such pedobait surely can't exist IRL.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 13:02:28 2014 No.4588635 >>4588632 If I saw a < 13 year old girl reading Lolita in public I'd take it as an invitation.

Anonymous Thu Feb 20 13:05:28 2014 No.4588642

>>4588593
Something I've been noticing is that the terms "Lolita" and "nymphet" have been slowly exiting the popular lexicon, to the point where only people who have a passing to intimate knowledge of either the source (Nabokov's novel) or the various erotic offshoots (deviant porn, anime, whatever) would even notice it. Most people who I've talked to about the book either legitimately don't know what it's about or consider it a classic.
So yeah, go right ahead. I you do manage to get any weird looks, just shrug them off.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 13:17:28 2014 No.4588673 >>4588593 Only if you aren't on Americlap.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 15:29:08 2014 No.4588951 >>4588593 I wouldn't know, I did it too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 15:38:08 2014 No.4588973 They study it in school, so why not?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 15:40:08 2014 No.4588981 Depends on if you're doing it because you actually appreciate it or if you're just trying to be edgy like OP's pic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 20:38:27 2014 No.4589867 >>4588981 >edgy Snoop Dogg is probably the bluntest motherfucker on the planet.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 20:48:27 2014 No.4589893 >>4589867 >blunt and edgy are mutually exclusive Nice try.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 20 22:04:47 2014 No.4590035 If they know what it is they probably know that it is considered one of the great works of the past 100 years

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 21 04:27:24 2014 No.4590798 >>4589867 bluntedest*

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 21 21:41:48 2014 No.4593164 >>4589867 he is a stupid hypocrite cocksucker the thug killed a guy with a illegal firearm then preaches about making it harder to obtain firearms legally he is a sell out and a fake

Anonymous Fri Feb 21 21:55:48 2014 No.4593205

>>4593164
>the thug killed a guy with a illegal firearm then preaches about making it harder to obtain firearms legally

Probably cause he knows from first hand experience that if he hadn't been able to get his hands on a firearm then he wouldn't have been able to kill anybody.

Just saying.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 21 21:58:47 2014 No.4593213 >>4588635 What an interesting situation. Someone needs to do this as a hidden camera prank, or even Dateline could use it to catch a predator I think my brain would straight up stop working if I saw a <13 girl reading Lolita

>>	Claquesous Fri Feb 21 22:00:47 2014 No.4593222 File: 85 KB, 414x640, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I read 'Lolita' in public. Then again, I have an edition with the least provocative cover imaginable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 12:47:19 2014 No.4595132 >>4593222 nice.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:00:19 2014 No.4595169 >>4593222 haha that's cover's fuckin ugly

Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:00:19 2014 No.4595166
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Related to what >>4588642 said, are there really people who are intelligent enough to know what "Lolita" is but dumb enough to take an issue with you reading it? Unless it's been on the news in the past few months, no one's going to think you're raping babies with your buddy Lucifer.

I read Lolita on a bus to/from work (in NYC). I remember one time while I was reading it, a woman got on with her young daughter (maybe around 8-10 years old), and told her to go sit in the open seat next to me. I shit my pants.

It was this cover, by the way.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:14:19 2014 No.4595202 >>4588593 At first I thought the pic was real. Then I realized snoop dog can't read and image searched, and he was reading the book of mormon...hahahaha.

Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:16:19 2014 No.4595205

>>4588642
I think people still know the term but don't know exactly what it means. When my little sister was like eleven years old my mom told her to cover herself up in front of older men so she wouldn't become a Lolita or something like that. I don't think she's read the book though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:24:19 2014 No.4595235 The way I see it is: plebs wont know what Lolita is or what it's about and people who do know what it is will be aware its stature in the literary would and wont be wondering "why is that weirdo reading a pedo book?".

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:27:19 2014 No.4595240 >>4595202 hahaha, good one. Snoop Dogg has an IQ over 140, you cunt. Check it out.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:33:19 2014 No.4595262 File: 28 KB, 309x475, لولیتا.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4588593 Is it socially acceptable to read Reading Lolita in Tehran in public in Tehran?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:47:19 2014 No.4595320 Reading in public is borderline autistic. Read at home.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:51:19 2014 No.4595336 >>4595320 Why are you ashamed, anon?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:53:20 2014 No.4595342 >>4595262 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:54:19 2014 No.4595345 >>4595262 >that filename That's what people see when they read Lolita in Tehran. Now it's like you're reading Lolita in Tehran too, unless you're trying to read it left-to-right, which AT I LOL.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 13:58:19 2014 No.4595359 >>4588593 what is that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 14:05:19 2014 No.4595379 >>4593164 >he is a sell out and a fake People are allowed to do or say something and then change their minds. I also don't see how he's a sellout when his lyrics have mostly stayed the same his entire career. He's not stupid either.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 14:13:20 2014 No.4595406 >>4593222 So, how about those annotations? Worth it, or just annoying?

>>	cockgobblermeme Sat Feb 22 14:31:19 2014 No.4595455 >>4595240 iq=potential for intelligence not intelligence itself

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 14:33:20 2014 No.4595464 >>4595166 What is so bad about this cover?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 14:34:20 2014 No.4595468 >>4595455 drop the name, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 14:48:19 2014 No.4595510 >>4595464 It's not the worst, but it's certainly more telling of the pedophilic content than >>4593222

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 14:49:20 2014 No.4595515 >>4595510 how?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 14:52:19 2014 No.4595521 >>4595515 It's a young girl's lips. It's nowhere near as bad as some covers but it's enough that if someone was vaguely aware of the novel and had a negative idea of it, they would more readily catch onto what book it is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 22 15:28:19 2014 No.4595620 >>4595521 Would never make that connection had I not already read the book. I have the cover that is in OP's shopped photo. That could possibly carry a negative connotation.

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