Distinctly Indistinct

It was distinctly indistinct in a way the left everyone who thought they saw it absolutely positive about its haziness. Those who saw it were absolutely certain that it was so simply indescribable in the complexity of its simplicity, while those who had no idea about it wondered – often at great length – what all the fuss was about.

The fact that all the fuss was about the way its exactness could only be described in vague general terms while its precise details were plain for all to see, but not recount, meant that for those who knew nothing of it, they knew even less when they heard of it and the problems everyone who had seen it had in describing the thing itself.

Obviously enough, the exact dimensions of the thing itself were not very precise due to the uncertainty about where it began and ended and where the surroundings around it came up to. There were places where it was both – obviously – there and – at the same time – obviously not there, both of which were only explainable in precise general terms.

Of course, there came a time when it was not there, although there are still arguments to this day about exactly when it suddenly wasn’t there. There are even some who still visit the place where it was – and now isn’t – claiming that it is still there, but those of us unenlightened by its visit cannot see it. There are those of us though who doubt it was ever actually there at all, just that there were some who wanted it to be there, but even then they lacked the belief to make it certain, to make it solid… and in the end the uncertainty won out.