Towards the wall

Phosphius had understood that his symbol for bird represented both the individual birds, and the ultimate form of bird; yet they were not the same – there was the 'form' Bird, and the object bird. Thus his symbol was was for an Objecta Generica.

The Sun was also the only sun Phosphius would see (he reasoned, given the distance). Thus the sun was both form, and object, and was therefore an Objecta Singula.

There objects around him that seemed to possess no 'will' (force with which any part of the world around him could create action on it's own). He realized that form and object were only relevant for his own musings. On a day to day basis, all he needed was the symbol and he was able to communicate enough; he was able to carry out his daily tasks without difficulty.

It was the difficulty he had in expressing his thoughts on objects with will: he considered himself to be such an object, able to carry out action without external force. All of the living around him were, in his eyes, similar in nature. Some could make noises and speak even. Some, like him, had no speech but could move on their own, follow their own purpose.

Even though Objecta Generica was good enough for him to 'talk' about animals like horses, birds and rats, it would still not explain the unpredictable nature of the action the object might take. A horse could jump forward or kick backward, if startled. The form kick and jump were different objects each time; symbols could describe the form of the situation (reality) but not the objects seen as a whole. A collection of objects interacting with each other were in fact Objecta Generica, he concluded. A moment in time, events that happen, were both the form and the object of themselves. Each one, like the Sun even though it was merely a circular symbol, was increasingly difficult to render in symbolic representation.

People, those will-full objects like him, had even more variety in their unpredictability. They reacted to a very complex number of events. Phosphius assumed that despite not being able to draw Objecta Generica very well, in some cases at all, there was the knowledge in someone to draw all of them. Human behaviour had so many possible variations that for Phosphius (or another), it would be impossible to draw the entire set of possibilities.

Perplexed and fascinated by this new entity that he could never truly create a language for, Phosphius began to withdraw from human company. He realized that he was experiencing a phenomena he would need a new language for. 

This was both exciting and frightful. He had worked hard his entire youth to become a boy of talent with his drawings. He had made a connection with the mass of people around him, a connection he had thought not possible as a toddler. Yet now he had to re-invent, beyond simple drawings, the manner in which HE saw the world around him. He needed a language which would, one day, describe Objecta Arcaia.