These things would represent to him (if he could get them) the idea that the world was going to give him a break -- give him a chance to remake himself into some sort of self that would be more human.
We are told this just as Montag is getting out of the river after he swims across it to evade the Hound. Montag is hoping that somewhere there will be a farmhouse where he could get those things. If he could find them, they would mean that the world was giving him " the long time needed to think all the things that must be thought."
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