Q: Hello.

   A: Hello.

Q: I’m Q.

   A: I’m A.

Q: I ask the Questions.

   A: I Answer. Or I give Answers. Or choices of Answers. And you can choose the one or ones you want or like or need or…

Q: So Questions can really choose their Answers?

   A: That’s what I just said.

Q: So this is a selective process?

   A: Apparently.

Q: What if I don’t like any of the Answers?

   A: Then ask another Question.

Q: Could this be dangerous?

   A: Apparently.

Q: Why do you say “apparently?”

   A: Appearances can be deceiving.

Q: Isn’t that a cliché?

   A: Yes. So many Answers are.

Q: But how can they be dangerous?

   A: They can lead you to places where you don’t want to go. They can force you to conclusions. They can make you become self-reflexive, and you might not like yourself as much. They can take you to the brink and you might fall off. They can lead you to action, and that can always be a mixed…

Q: Are you always so indecisive, so rambling, so indeterminate, so…?

   A: Sometimes. Not always. And of course the Answers can hide the Questions in complexity, and…

Q: I notice that you’re ending your Answers in an open ended way with a lot of dots…

   A: You’re starting to sound like me. Did you have a Question?

Q: You mean the Answer is in the Question?

   A: Could be.

Q: And if you don’t really Answer, can I go back and try again?

   A: Yes. Always. Well, almost always. Sometimes. But, to Answer you, yes.

Q: Like when you said it could be dangerous to Question and Answer, could you give examples? 

   A: Yes.

Q: Will you? Please? Pretty Please?

   A: OK. Sure. Just a bit for now. Scratching the surface of a few Big Things: Like the tangled mess of freedom and democracy and peace and… Sometimes you have to wage war to get peace. Sometimes you have to make people tell you what they want when what they want is not to have to talk about it. Sometimes to be free you have to find limits. You know I could go on and on, and I probably will, because everybody needs Answers, and sometimes the process isn’t easy, and as you know or should know by now it can be dangerous, and clichés as you know have an obverse, and if we say “It hurts to think” and “It only hurts when you think” that implies that it doesn’t hurt when you don’t think but we already know that isn’t true because thoughtlessness is bad and harmful, and…and…

Q: Ouch! I see what you mean. But it’s too much. Can we stop now?

   A: Yes. For now.

Q: So can we agree on this together?

   A: Yes. Let’s say it together:

Q & A: See you later. Bye for now……