Questions

— VIII. 24.24 questions sketches —

What conduced to the very first question?
Who asked first?
Why?

Was the first interrogation on a facial expression?
Was it in the tone of voice?
Was it behind the reason for an utterance?
Was it the intonation on the last word of a statement?
Was it the weight of the tone on the first word of the sentence?
Was it a mere phrase of wonder?

Long before our crescendant reach of the fifth century, before punctuating in writing that which we thought, how confident were we interrogating?
Was it out of an impulse based on knowing?
Was it based on wanting to?

Does one even need to answer questions at all?
Can they, should they, must they be born of its own necessity, rather than of their response?

Which was the first elder to tell a story to lull a child, in which a question surfaced from the telling?