And sometimes he had some preliminary information to help him, and sometimes he had not. And it was all one, really. It was about as useful as information trying to convey the locality and intentions of a cloud.
a matter of indifference; a matter having no importance or consequence
Расстановка переносов
a mat·ter of indifference; a mat·ter ha·ving no im·por·tance or con·se·quence