Eight responses to eight questions posed by Dave over at Via Negativa–nicely done, Dave! My responses can’t possibly measure up. My own questions follow the set.
- Is half a stone still a whole stone?
If the heart is hard it doesn’t matter how whole it is.
- Do grains of sand get tired of being recycled into mountains?
No. You can tell when grains of sand get tired because they relax into one another, becoming glass.
- If you crossed a bat with a mushroom, would you get an umbrella?
Why, yes. Or a broom.
- Do the glasses one wears in a dream require a prescription?
You wear glasses in your dreams? In my dreams, I have perfect vision. Making up, of course, for the fact that I cannot run, speak, appear in a classroom on time and fully clothed, etc…
- What songs do they sing in a school without windows?
Sea chanteys.
- Do the daisies love us or not?
Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails. (Translation: What’s to love about us?)
- Is there any reason to believe that we’ll have working mouthparts in the next life?
PT Barnum seemed to think so, if the ones born every minute are indeed reincarnates…
- What kind of cartilage connects us to the stars?
Mermaid-pound test.
Here are my questions…
- What long-lost love does the moth see in a flame?
- Why are there two twelves in a day, but no twenty?
- Who is they?
- Why do a composition textbook, a replacement headlamp for my car, and one dinner for two all cost about the same amount of money?
- Who is minding the store?
- Why B-flat?
- Where do you go when you aren’t listening?
