Explore "Riddles" by Ring Lardner on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
If it's fun to take books from the bookcase, / If you really believe it's worth while / To carry them out to the kitchen / And build them all up in a pile, / Why isn't it just as agreeable then / To carry them back to the bookcase again?
If it's fun to make marks with a pencil / In books that one cares for a heap; / To tear out the pages from volumes / One likes and is anxious to keep, / Why isn't it pleasure to put on the hummer / A magazine read and discarded last summer?