Answer:
the answer is it comes from the name of a writing implement
It is to help select and see there opportunities and to choose a path
In the story, it tells us that even though many Cyclopes live on the island, they don't have a community. They do not get together. The live separately not caring about the others. The text says, "Cyclopes have no muster and no meeting,no consultation or old tribal ways,but each one dwells in his own mountain cavedealing out rough justice to wife and child,indifferent to what the others do. . . ."<span />
Sorry I didn’t read that yet