Comments on: Chalk

Chalk

curious nu — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:35:34 -0800

"Thinking too much about chalk," and the full texts it cites: Thomas Huxley's "On a Piece of Chalk" and GK Chesterton's "A Piece of Chalk".

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:32:14 -0800

But I'm charmed by the idea that when a school teacher writes her name on a blackboard on the first day of class, what she's really doing is crushing the skeletons of terribly ancient earthlings into a form that spells out the name "Mrs. Guttenheimer." Does she know? No, but the clever little girl in the back of the room who was sent to the office for interrupting the teacher with a loud and disgusting "Ewwwwww..." knew. To this day, Ms. Guttenheimer thinks it was a reaction to her ugly name.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:47:14 -0800

Let's not tell the clever little girl where Jello comes from, OK?

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:04:49 -0800

*In tiny, high voice:* Jello comes from the remnants of exploded supernovae, just like we do, silly.

By: BlueHorse

BlueHorse — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:28:33 -0800

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. Yeah, my pockets are pretty epic at the end of the day, too. ...a peacefully domestic and mutton-suggesting prettiness... Great image.

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:29:50 -0800

Thinking too much about half a piece of chalk.