The case opens with its tenets and scope plus a blank sense of mystery like Ravens and Albatrosses raving 'bout their hardly intelligible semi-certainties.
You make an inert progress with one willful logical movement ensuing somewhat carelessly after another and somewhat 'beside' yourself.
Thus, your intellect keeps making a mockery of you till you can finally dismiss it after the case has been closed and, for once more, you're left with nothing.