What does it mean to him? "Nothing,and I'm not even sure when it is.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

He didn't mean to say the text is here, the text contains everything that matters, and nothing else exists anyway.

他并不是想说文本在这，包括了所有重要的东西，无论如何都没有其它东西存在。

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I mean, there is nothing there to describe.

我的意思是，没有什么好形容的。

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