Colter Jacobsen created this double-ended pencil with two erasers on either end and mirrored text featuring the palindrome drawn inward. It comes with a certificate of authenticity, a double-sided poster, and a wooden box with drilled text that reads, “Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand.”

Text from the back of the poster:

AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON

At his small sanded white pine table in his cabin at Walden Pond on which he kept an arrowhead, an oak leaf, and an Iliad in Greek, Henry David Thoreau worked on two books at once. In one, A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, he wrote: Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. In the other, Walden, or Life in the Woods, he wrote three such sentences, a paragraph which no intelligence can understand: I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtledove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers whom i have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

— The Concord Sonata by Guy Davenport from his book of stories, A Table of Green Fields

—The Thing Quarterly