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Q1 : a guy about 25 years old
A1 : a guy about 25 years old
[Lights fade in. Q1 is sitting and reading a newspaper, when A1 comes running and stops immediately near Q1, Q1 looks in A1's eyes]
A1: No.
Q1: What?
A1: No, no, no.
Q1: What no? I didn’t ask any question, did I?
A1: Hmm.
Q1: Then why did you answer in “no”?
A1: I thought there can always be an answer without a question, so I answered you without you asking any question.
Q1: That’s just asinine of you; I didn't said anything to which you could have said “no”. Then, why did you say “no”?
A1: Well it’s all your mistake.
Q1: My mistake? Why?
A1: You defined cause as cause and affect as effect.
Q1: What cause…?
A1: You defined question as question and answer as answer......
Q1: I never...?
A1: ....and hence it’s you who defined effect, as effect to a cause, and answer, as answer to a question.
Q1: Isn't it just ridiculous?
A1: You are a robber.
Q1: Robber? Do you know what you just said?
A1: You just robbed the answer of its freedom; you nullified its existence, its existence without a question.
Q1: What the hell are you talking about?
A1: We always create history as we move ahead on road of life, each second gone is written in a book of history, each second we will be living, will soon be a history.
Q1: Aren't you mad?
A1: Society will ask you one day, if you followed the norms or not, you will be shameful then.
[Now A1 will be Q2 and Q1 will be A2]
A2: I would never be shameful.
Q2: Why won't you be shameful, have you followed all the norms?
A2: We all have to follow the norms. Everybody has to live in this society and has to follow what it dictates.
Q2: You mean the word “should” and “must” were invented after word “society” was invented?
A2: Quite possible, but you are trying to change the topic.
Q2: Did I change the topic?
A2: Yes, I think we were talking about questions and answers, and you have dragged societal norms in between.
Q2: Don’t you think we are still talking on the same topic, question-answers?
A2: No.
Q2: What if I prove that we are still on the same topic?
A2: Prove it then.
Q2: Ok, so according to you, a question is a question and answer is an answer, and thereby a question may or may not have a following notion, an answer, but an answer always has a base-notion which is called a question, is it?
A2: Yes offocurse, i mean there are questions which have no answers found yet, but an answer without a question is unheard of.
Q2: Why?
A2: It simply can’t exist.
Q2: Why?
A2: It's just that, it happens.
Q2: Why?
A2: It’s the way they are defined, a question is meant to be asked, and answer is to be given as a reply to a question.
Q2: Is it some kind of established practice?
A2: Yes it’s the norm of world.
Q2: Norm of world? Or Norm of society?
A2: Oh.
Q2: Did you get me now?
A2: Yes I did, we are still on the same topic.
Q2: Don’t you think we have sort of concluded?
[Now Q2 will be again be A1 and A2 will be Q1]
Q1: Concluded?
A1: Yes.
Q1: What’s the conclusion?
A1: Conclusion is a bitter one.
Q1: What is it?
A1: Conclusion is: "Question is the master and answer is the slave."
Q1: But then...what of societal norms?
A1: They are the question and …..
Q1: And?
A1: …and you are the answer.
A1: No.
Q1: What?
A1: No, no, no.
Q1: What no? I didn’t ask any question, did I?
A1: Hmm.
Q1: Then why did you answer in “no”?
A1: I thought there can always be an answer without a question, so I answered you without you asking any question.
Q1: That’s just asinine of you; I didn't said anything to which you could have said “no”. Then, why did you say “no”?
A1: Well it’s all your mistake.
Q1: My mistake? Why?
A1: You defined cause as cause and affect as effect.
Q1: What cause…?
A1: You defined question as question and answer as answer......
Q1: I never...?
A1: ....and hence it’s you who defined effect, as effect to a cause, and answer, as answer to a question.
Q1: Isn't it just ridiculous?
A1: You are a robber.
Q1: Robber? Do you know what you just said?
A1: You just robbed the answer of its freedom; you nullified its existence, its existence without a question.
Q1: What the hell are you talking about?
A1: We always create history as we move ahead on road of life, each second gone is written in a book of history, each second we will be living, will soon be a history.
Q1: Aren't you mad?
A1: Society will ask you one day, if you followed the norms or not, you will be shameful then.
[Now A1 will be Q2 and Q1 will be A2]
A2: I would never be shameful.
Q2: Why won't you be shameful, have you followed all the norms?
A2: We all have to follow the norms. Everybody has to live in this society and has to follow what it dictates.
Q2: You mean the word “should” and “must” were invented after word “society” was invented?
A2: Quite possible, but you are trying to change the topic.
Q2: Did I change the topic?
A2: Yes, I think we were talking about questions and answers, and you have dragged societal norms in between.
Q2: Don’t you think we are still talking on the same topic, question-answers?
A2: No.
Q2: What if I prove that we are still on the same topic?
A2: Prove it then.
Q2: Ok, so according to you, a question is a question and answer is an answer, and thereby a question may or may not have a following notion, an answer, but an answer always has a base-notion which is called a question, is it?
A2: Yes offocurse, i mean there are questions which have no answers found yet, but an answer without a question is unheard of.
Q2: Why?
A2: It simply can’t exist.
Q2: Why?
A2: It's just that, it happens.
Q2: Why?
A2: It’s the way they are defined, a question is meant to be asked, and answer is to be given as a reply to a question.
Q2: Is it some kind of established practice?
A2: Yes it’s the norm of world.
Q2: Norm of world? Or Norm of society?
A2: Oh.
Q2: Did you get me now?
A2: Yes I did, we are still on the same topic.
Q2: Don’t you think we have sort of concluded?
[Now Q2 will be again be A1 and A2 will be Q1]
Q1: Concluded?
A1: Yes.
Q1: What’s the conclusion?
A1: Conclusion is a bitter one.
Q1: What is it?
A1: Conclusion is: "Question is the master and answer is the slave."
Q1: But then...what of societal norms?
A1: They are the question and …..
Q1: And?
A1: …and you are the answer.
