There is only one reason why all grown-up people do not
play with toys, and it is a fair reason. The reason is that
playing with toys takes so very much more time and trouble
than anything else. Playing as children means playing is the
most serious thing in the world, and as soon as we have
small duties or small sorrows we have to abandon to som
extent so enormous and ambitious a plan of life. We have
enough strength for politics and commerce and art and
philosophy, we have not enough strength for play This is a
truth which every one will recognize who, as a child, has ever
played with anything at all. My journalistic work, which eams
money is not pursued with such awful persistence as that
work which earned nothing
Take the case of blocks. If you publish a book tomorrow,
your work may be laborious, but it is fundamentally frivolous
It is not serious as the work of a child piling one block on the
other is serious, for the simple reason that if your book is a
bad book, no one will ever be able ultimately and entirely to
prove to you Whereas if the balance of block is a bad
balance of blocks it will simply tumble down. And if I know
anything of children, they will work to build again. Whereas, if
I know anything of authors, nothing would induce you to write
your book again, or even to think of it again if you could help
Which sentence would the author most likely agree with?
A.
Persistence is a quality people often have as children but lose as adults
B. Being a writer is fairly easy compared to a lot of other jobs you can do
C. Authors approach their work in a way that shows they aren't serious
D. Making things out of toys helps people learn how to handle life's challenges