Certain types of word, in English.

I do not possess the requisite vocabulary.  This may or may not be an impediment.

There are certain 'types' of word which cause issues.

These start with those strange and ancient adjectives, 'this' and 'that,' 'a' and 'the.'  They are adjectival as they tell us something about their object.  Strange, because it's hard to pin down exactly what it is that they tell us about that object.  (It is important to note that 'object' here is explicitly expected to be another word, most probably a noun.  That is, the 'object' is explicitly NOT intended to be construed as equating with what it (the object, a word) refers to in the physical world.)

(east africa)

for so very long, they lived like this.

east africa was close to eden, perhaps even east of that place.  so it was told.  the language has been lost and in those times they did not make the ordered shapes certain of them would later label with this sign: writing.  nothing remains as no one remembers.  sure, there are a handful of stories which appear to have survived, preserved because of power or beauty or just plain ubiquity.

life, east of eden, was not easy.  neither was it oppressively hard.  a living was to be got from the leavings of the great cats, from those animals small and stupid enough to be caught, from the roots and leaves of the verdant scrub that around them grew.

these were the days before there were gorillas or orangs.  before the gaps began to distance and separate us.

these days had no beginning and no end.  neither was necessary.  the world had its rhythms, fast and slow, there was life, there was not-life, there were the things they fancied they saw.

they say it went

it is said that they had their moments of beauty.  some say they were once possessed of great potential.  it is conjectured in some quarters that their ways were toxic by contact.  others wonder why this might have been so.  a large majority simply, or in more complex ways, shrug their shoulders, figurative or not.

it went like this

you see, it went like this . . .