On 2/18/20 5:57 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Via a friend on another invite-only list, this lovely, though-provoking
cartoon:
http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park (I won't spoil it, go
read through the whole thing)
So: what do YOU collect: questions, or answers? And why?
I am by trade and habit a collector of answers. I think this typical of
those of us who work as reference librarians. Sadly, our answers
generally greatly outnumber the questions at hand.
One result is that we search out those questions by gathering up
collections of answers into articles and books, and sending them out
into the world in hopes of finding compatible questions. Sometimes you
find out that it has worked, more often you never know.
But that applies primarily to things outside myself. Inside I'm nothing
but questions and damn few answers (at least answers that stand up to
close scrutiny or the passage of time).
On a personal level, I think questions are far preferable to answers.
Largely because the people I meet that believe they have the answers are
generally insufferable (though not always boorish), and it's not
possible to discuss their answers, only to receive them without comment.
Unexamined answers, like the unexamined life, are not of much value. But
so too unexamined questions!
Cheers,
/ Bruce /
