A Gift.

Mary wanted to give Jim the greatest gift he had ever received. Jim was one of the least material people she had ever met, so finding a great gift would be a difficult task. For people like Jim, the gift needs to be truly special, not just something you can buy at the store or online. She decided that making the gift was the only way. She enrolled at a local woodshop so she could fabricate her grand idea. First she started with the walls, cutting four equilateral shapes of wood. The corners were mitered for perfect alignment and easy assembly. The floor would be a similar shape, also mitered all around its edges, so that the walls would sit nicely on top. The top most shape would be identical to the floor. The piece would be called the lid. Mary glued the mitered edges of the shapes and assembled them into a perfect cube. When the cube had dried, she painted the box in an equal mix of two colors. Homogenously mixed so that she would apply the two colors simultaneously and always in equal amounts. The mixture was half pitch black, the darkest black available to humankind, and half ultra-clear, the clearest clear available to human kind. This would allow the box to be completely imperceptible to the human eye. After the paint and glue on the box had completely dried, she completed the final step. A yellow rod was inserted into the direct center of the box. It was cylindrical in shape and yellow, about 3/4 the height of the box itself so that it didn’t touch the top of the box, but still displayed comparable height. The rod glowed yellow with a majesty hard to properly imagine. Mary gifted the box to Jim and he was rendered speechless. Never in his life had Jim received a gift like this one before. He loved the gift so much that he based the entirety of the remainder of his life around the cube, building a following of thousands who shared a similar devotion to the object.