Publisher's Synopsis
With the title of this text, GK baptizes a beautiful article, which if we look with eyes that are not made of flesh, we could get angry at the 'insults' or provocations - which are neither one thing nor the other - that our author seems to give to his country: And there I stayed, immersed in a pleasant trance, realizing that the south of England is not only a great peninsula and a tradition and a civilization, but something even more admirable: a piece of chalk.
Certainly, as soon as we reflect, we are facing a process of abasement in which GK considers something insignificant as the exaltedness of its homeland. Is it a kind of degradation distortion, carried out with the school metaphor? It is costly and difficult to be seduced by this analysis, since, knowing GK's humility, it is more feasible that he tried - and succeeded - to make the sublimation of the small. the insignificant despicable as the virtue that brings it closer to the exalting consideration of the hidden to the mass. And it shows us that it is there, in the world abandoned to the near real, where the mystery is solved, a mystery as common - but not trivial - as it is to find the chalk that allows us to apprehend the drawing of the world on brown paper: the which is the least expensive way of owning. As when it is possessed when reading, writing, seeing,
