Firstness (in-itselfness, originality) helps to explain logico-cognitive processes and therefore, at once, the formation of signs.

That's what a fug was. You could have cut cubes out of the air and sold it for cheap building material.

We have found us already shunned, disdained, / And for re-acceptance have not once striven; / Whatever offence our course has given / The brunt thereof we have long sustained.

a long-haul flight