The pencil analogy reminded of this quote " I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe … if you can become aware of the miraculousness

The pencil analogy reminded of this quote " I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe … if you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolise, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing. I have a profound lesson to teach. And I can teach this lesson better than can an automobile or an airplane or a mechanical dishwasher because — well, because I am seemingly so simple. Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this Earth knows how to make me. " REF: https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html?chapter_num=2#book-reader https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html?chapter_n...