There's this defacto rule of /lit/ that no one has actually ever read a book.
It's a bit of a joke but there is value to this.
Firstly it makes a book club very accessible because if everyone else is already larping then you don't have to read any books to be a part of the club you just have to convincingly larp as literate.
There's also this dick measuring thing people can do where they site some kind of esoteric knowledge from a really long book that very convincingly proves either they cherry picked the story or they actually read through it and had a personal connection with it.
Either was asserting that despite all evidence someone might provide /lit/ doesn't read will mean that someone providing this esoteric knowledge will have to actually make sure it's pertinent and it never actually is.

I'm wondering how far this could actually go and with what other practices.
Doctors and lawyers already do something similar where they will cut into someone's heart or defend someone they know is a murderer and just go "i'm only practicing, I'm not actually a doctor or a lawyer".
At that point it's hard to say if it's just some kind of scapegoating thing but I doubt it's that when the doctors and lawyers still have to live with their "practicing" even if they aren't "truly" a doctor or lawyer.

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