Early last year, I was walking on New Hampshire Avenue NW, approaching its intersection with 16th St. A woman on the sidewalk was photographing a bird, so i paused not to be in her way. Having paused, I looked at the Little Free Library to my left, and found The Essential Mary Midgley. Since I had had it in mind to read some Midgley, I took the volume along. I was not disappointed.
Yesterday nobody was obstructing my way there, but I stopped to look into the same Little Free Library. A cover with white and red lettering on dark background was hard to read, but proved to be Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature by Midgley. Of course I took it. My first dip into the book turned up a passage that I had read already; the passage reminded me why I taken it.
There are a few books ahead of Beast and Man on my reading list, but I will read it this summer. I wonder whether I should make a practice of visiting this Little Free Library more often. For years I passed near it once or twice a week.
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