Then,one late afternoon in midJuly,the hottest time of the year,I was walking by his house and he opened the door,mentioned me to come inside. The hall was cool,shaded,and it took my eyes a minute to adjust to the dim light.
“I owe you,”Mr Ballou,“but. . . ”
I thought I'd save him the trouble of thinking of a new excuse. “No problem. Don't worry about it. ”
“The bank made a mistake in my account,”he continued,ignoring my words. “It will be cleared up in a day or two. But in the meantime I thought perhaps you could choose one or two volumes for a down payment. ”
He gestured toward the walls and I saw that books were stacked(堆放)everywhere. It was like a library,except with no order to the arrangement.
“Take your time,”Mr. Ballou encouraged. “Read,borrow,keep. Find something you like. What do you read?”
“I don't know. ”And I didn't. I generally read what was in front of me,what I could get from the paperback stack at the drugstore,what I found at the library,magazines,the back of cereal boxes,comics. The idea of consciously seeking out a special title was new to me,but,I realized,not without appeal—so I started to look through the piles of books.
“You actually read all of these?”
“This isn't much,”Mr. Ballou said. “This is nothing just what I've kept,the ones worth looking at a second time. ”
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