Saturday, March 31, 2007

Y + Me

"Y"

"Why" is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it.

The alphabet does not go "A B C D What? When? How?" but it does go "V W X Why? Z."

"Why" is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you "What's the time?" or "When was the battle of 1066?" or "How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?" The answers are easy and are, respectively, "Seven-thirty-five in the evening," "Ten-fifteen in the morning," and "Don't ask stupid questions."

But when you hear the word "Why?," you know you've got one of the biggest unanswerables on your hands, such as "Why are we born?" or "Why do we die?" and "Why do we spend so much of the intervening time receiving junk mail?"

Or this one:

"Will you go to bed with me?"

"Why?"


There's only ever been one good answer to that question "Why?" and perhaps we should have that in the alphabet as well. There's room for it. "Why?" doesn't have to be the last word, it isn't even the last letter. How would it be if the alphabet ended, "V W X Why? Z," but "V W X Why not?"

Don't ask stupid questions.

-From Hockney's Alphabet

(Taken from The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams)

Not a bad take on one of the most pilosopo answers one can give to one of the most serious types of questions, don't you think?

Don't you think?

Don't ask stupid questions.

...

Too lazy tonight. This is what you get when your friends are so good at putting just enough alcohol into the orange juice so that it doesn't taste as if it was spiked at all. And the fact that last night was the first good sleep I had this entire week (note: alcohol-induced = good) doesn't help either.

Tonight, I dance with Hypnos.

posted by Ocnarf @ 12:50 AM   5 have spoken

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