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"I assume every one must have considered how primordial and poetical are the objects that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for example, the type of all human instruments, the newborn of the sword," the author says in the text.
What is the excerpt "A Piece of Chalk"?
G. K. Chesterton's A Piece of Chalk has the themes of desire, prudence, resilience, happiness, independence, and ingenuity, and the reader realizes early on in the essay that Chesterton may be examining the issue of desire.
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I then tried to explain the rather delicate logical shade, that I not only liked brown paper, but liked the quality of brownness in paper, just as I
liked the quality of brownness in October woods, or in the peat-streams of the North. Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil
of creation, and with a bright-colored chalk or two you can pick out points of fire in it, sparks of gold, and blood-red, and sea-green, like the first
fierce stars that sprang out of darkness. All this I said in an off-hand way) to the old woman; and I put the brown paper in my pocket along with
the chalks, and possibly other things. I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in
one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems
entirely about the things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
With my stick and my knife, my chalks and my brown paper, I went out on to the great downs. I crawled across those colossal contours that
express the best quality of England, because they are at the same time soft and strong. The smoothness of them has the same meaning as the
smoothness of great cart-horses, or the smoothness of the beech-tree; it declares in the teeth of our timid and cruel theories that the mighty are
merciful.
"I assume every one must have considered how primordial and poetical are the objects that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for example, the type of all human instruments, the newborn of the sword," the author says in the text.
Thus, this shows the author's point of view.
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