Drink hot drinks

Me living in a cynical world, where every action taken by someone is an output of a thought that is hidden or a means to an end that is not visible. Like the advertisement in Newspapers, which is nothing but a way of making money by the capitalist newspapers who in any case are getting subsidiary for the paper that they use to print the newspaper and thus i am now critical of the very act of placing an advertisement in newspaper or feeling sorry for the fact that due to the current pandemic, there are no advertisements in the newspapers.

In view of above, the fact that I live in a cynical world and not about newspapers making money in the capitalistic structure that I belong to, what I am now being cynical about and raising the question in my mind is whether or not it’s a propaganda/narrative promoted by Tea and/or Coffee seller Lobbyists that a hot beverage in a cup has made itself a quintessential element of the very act of reading a book (See pictures taken for picturesque Instagram by book readers, or wanna-be book readers, mostly of fiction books which has an element of fairy tale in itself, where books are shown to be around a coffee mug with either smoke coming out of the mug or just the angle is such that the term hot chai or coffee is understood to be alongside the book). Because let me tell you, reading a book has got nothing to do with hot drink, be it chai or coffee. In fact having a hot drink, chai or coffee or water for that matter, with a book is difficult especially if one is not sitting in front of a table to prop the book open and to place the hot drink mug. In any case, even with a table, the act of propping the book open with one hand and drinking the hot drink with another is quite a feat in itself to be managed.

And so, I am being critical (or was it cynical?) of the pairing together of books with hot drink, be it tea or coffee. Shame on all who for their own nefarious and self-serving reasons are promoting the sale of coffee and tea on the backs of books and subjecting simple minded fiction readers who in any case live in debt (what with all the needless book buying and reading and no market for second hand books and don’t get me started on the whole propaganda of shelf makers to promote library in one’s home!).

Wait.

Hot earl grey tea with a novel is an exception to above.