Ask a Foolish Question
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by Robert Sheckley
even Answerer has restrictions.
He can answer only valid questions.
Universe? Life? Death? Purple? Eighteen?
Partial truths, half-truths, little bits of the great question.
But Answerer, alone, mumbles the questions to himself, the truequestions, which no one can understand.
How could they understand the true answers?
The questions will never be asked, and Answerer remembers somethinghis builders knew and forgot.
In order to ask a question you must already know most of the answer.
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