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- # Shift in attack to unsightliness and room gain
## Overview
This segment, titled "Shift in attack to unsightliness and room gain," is a portion of the short story "[I and My Chimney](arke:01KG8AJ72QDX8N8STJ3550X2NW)". It was extracted from the file "[i_and_my_chimney.txt](arke:01KG89J1H4TA19251AXAPE3ZWC)" and is part of the "[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)" collection. The segment covers lines 1120 to 1128 of the original text.
## Context
This segment follows the section titled "[Wife's initial complaints and the secret closet theory](arke:01KG8AJNYAC5V5EHARA9QMYA1F)" and precedes the segment "[Return to closet theory and philosophical defense](arke:01KG8AJQ43NSWB6TRH1VZ8Z4PQ)". The narrative describes a shift in the arguments presented by the narrator's wife and daughters regarding the chimney.
## Contents
In this segment, the narrator recounts how his wife and daughters abandon the "secret closet" theory and instead focus their attack on the chimney's "unsightliness" and the potential to gain space by demolishing it. They emphasize the "fine effect" of a projected grand hall and the convenience of rearranging partitions. The narrator likens their desire to partition away his chimney to the historical partitioning of Poland by the Three Powers.
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- Shift in attack to unsightliness and room gain
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- Sometimes all three abandon the theory of the secret closet and return
to the genuine ground of attack—the unsightliness of so cumbrous a
pile, with comments upon the great addition of room to be gained by its
demolition, and the fine effect of the projected grand hall, and the
convenience resulting from the collateral running in one direction and
another of their various partitions. Not more ruthlessly did the Three
Powers partition away poor Poland, than my wife and daughters would
fain partition away my chimney.
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- Shift in attack to unsightliness and room gain