薬：

Rose Horowitch: ‘When you see someone on the train reading printed matter, it feels like a statement. Perhaps inevitably, such statements have become the stuff of online ridicule: Brandish a book too ostentatiously in public, and you might find yourself accused of “performative reading.”’

觀察是：至少龢人對電車上讀書的「作態」——攜文庫本，亦覆上容易持握的書衣——旁人仍懷敬意。

我在日本的電車上時常都在做 performative reading，主要因爲我拒絕書衣——日本給小學生的讀物也會善誘書衣的好處。而若家有小童，performative reading 就根本是一種道德義務。妳有責任演給她看，讀紙書就和玩 Nintendo Switch 一樣正常。