Armed with this
new understanding, man may attempt to surmount other eternal questions.
Why? Charles
When?
Just now.
Where?
Over there.
How?
Easily.
Who?
Charles.
Who is Charles?
The final inquiry.
The culmination of human endeavor.
The peering through the last keyhole
into the terminal dining room in the fifth and final house on the most
elegantly appointed street.
The room in which the final course is
being served in the waning moments of Man’s woefully brief existence.
Who is Charles?
Voices from the dining room, speaking
quickly and urgently over the tinkling of silverware and heirloom china.
Finally the cries of a squinting
sailor with a mouthful of greens, “I am what I am.”
The identity operator,
A=A. The ultimate question
and its obvious anwer.