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I think that you're greatly overstating the point.

> But walk into any average grocery store and hand someone a page out of a book and ask them to read it out loud to you.

I doubt that you have done this, but if you have please stop doing it. This is literal insane behaviour.

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I don't know. Talking with strangers is always kind of insane, or at least a pretty illogical leap of faith, because there's not much chance that the interaction is interesting or amusing. Now a stranger that walks up to me and demands some dramatic reading of Paradise Lost, stat? Ok, I'm intrigued, hold my beer and buckle up while I let you hear about regions of sorrow and darkness visible because the produce section has never seen some shit like this

Talking with strangers in a shared cultural space like a grocery store is one of the most normal occurrences in the history of humanity.

It is incredibly telling that it strikes you as "always kind of insane."

Huh? I defended your proposal of asking strangers to read stuff against the detractors here, because even though it's a bit obnoxious, I think it's a more interesting conversational gambit than discussing sports or something. And now I'm the weirdo? You attack your allies here in a way that raises questions about your own ability to read well.

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