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The toilet. We also read a lot in the toilet.
May I ask what is culture of reading in toilets in your country?
In Latvia there had been times when there are old newspapers/magazines in countryside dry toilets. Also people are reading in their modern toilets, but things they take with them. It seems that toilet as place for reading and last destination of newspaper will disappear. -- GirtsKalnins
America had a custom, now virtually gone, along with the outhouse, of using catalogs, especially Sears and Roebuck by name. The catalogs are nearly gone. Outhouses now generally have bathroom tissue. Bathroom tissue is stolen from public rest rooms because paper products cannot be purchased with Food Stamps.
Of course you can't do that to books, unless you really didn't like them. (Then again, I dimly remember a passage in something by TerryPratchett where one of the witches says something to the effect that slowly going down the hole is the expected fate of a book to her.) In France we have this wonderful saying, attributed to a writer saying of a critic's review, "Je l'ai lue d'un derrière distrait". (Hard to translate - one might say "I gave it only half-assed consideration.") -- lb
That's a good translation! Completely non-literal, but the best ones often are. Literally, it means "I read it with a distracted behind", impliying that not only did I read it with my posterior and not my eyes, but that I didn't give it much attention. Plus the focus on "distracted" means the "derriere" sneaks in and is noticed belatedly: stealth humour.
Reading on the toilet did not die with the invention of cheap personal paper. The bathroom in my parents' house was called "the library," a name I still use occassionally. -- GeorgeBrower
In English there's a story very similar to Laurent's, though it hasn't given rise to a famous saying. I forget the exact wording, but the gist of it is that an author/actor/composer/whatever writes to a critic saying "Sir -- I am sat in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me; in a few minutes' time I shall have put it behind me." (My actual memory of the wording has "it will be behind me", but I like my version better.) -- GarethMcCaughan
I'm going to read on the toilet right now. May this tradition live long. -- Sean
I cleaned houses for many years and I'm always suspicious of people who don't keep reading material in the bathroom. It's a must as far as I'm concerned. I even have a magazine rack to provide a variety of reading materials! My younger daughter used to come home from school and do her homework on the toilet. Guarenteed peace and quiet.
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