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Buying Philosophy Books vs Reading Them

Buying Philosophy Books vs Reading Them

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Me buying philosophy books Me actually reading philosophy
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A two-panel reaction meme shows a smiling man enthusiastically buying philosophy books, followed by a close-up of the same man crying while actually reading one. The joke is that the excitement of collecting intellectually ambitious books quickly turns into distress when confronting their difficult content, making it useful for self-deprecating reactions about unread or challenging books.

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Two-panel reaction meme
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800×561 · 64.9 KiB
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self-deprecating, distressed
Language
en
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