Box.

[thefrescakid]

Consider a box.

Show the box to a dozen people and ask them to describe it in detail. You'll get a dozen different answers.

I seek therefore to know how other people see the box.

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[veritology]

The box is wooden, carved in minute detail with a mural depicting the burning of the library at Alexandria. The wood was enamelled centuries after it was made, preserving the story told in the grain. It is just large enough to hold either a set of ancient scrolls, rolled on animal hide and preserved in airtight wax, or the skeleton of an infant born with every limb in it's body broken in several places. The box has never been opened, and we wonder, as if Schrodinger was looking over us, if the contents are a little of both brittle parchment or fragile bone.

It was found only recently, in the home of a recently deceased famous archaeologist who, apparently not knowing it's value, was using it as a stepstool/doorstop in his cluttered kitchen.

His specialty: Dead Languages...;-)

[thefrescakid]

That is awesome!