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The author reflects on the throwing games children and students play. He recalls his experience of playing the game called window wherein children threw food, drinks and books among others out of the window, his experience of getting a pencil stuck in the ceiling to play the game called ceiling, and the effect of the game called grenade on a veteran who participated in the Iraq war.

The article focuses on the form and evolution of the pencil and mentions the architect's challenge in modern-day studio, which is to determine what to actually do with a pencil, and not what to draw with one.