indeed, the only truly serious questions are the ones that even a child can formulate. only the most naive of questions are truly serious. they are the questions with no answers. a question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. in other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. that’s why one banned book in your former country means infinitely more than the billions of words spewed out by universities.