Our obsession with answers resulted in a New York Times bestselling novel with the non-answer title of "He's Just Not That Into You"- he didn't call, he's clearly not interested, stop beleaguering yourself with "but whyyyy?" Life is uncertain – unless you have a magical Choose-Your-Adventure book to jump ahead and see the end.
We collected more than 2600 answers, about 12-13 answers per title.
This musical, the latest family production in Theatreworks USA's Free Summer Theater Program, suggests an answer: Its title character, a Siamese, envisions himself as a noble, swashbuckling Chihuahua.
If a member of the Greek Orthodox Catholic Church were to write a book entitled "Why I Am a Catholic," he might well answer his title question by writing, as Garry Wills does in his new book, "I am a Catholic because of the creed".
John Scheinfeld's long, loving documentary, "Who Is Harry Nilsson? (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)," answers its title questions by implicitly changing the grammar.
Delbanco, however, not only accepts the fact that little has changed in the classroom — "most of what we see in the past looks a lot like the present" — he celebrates it in the course of answering his title's question.
Blakey Vermeule, the author of "Why Do We Care About Literary Characters?," answers her title's question this way: "We use them to sort out basic moral problems or to practice new emotional situations..
In Jaron Lanier's great essay, he answers the title question when he writes, "The trick is being ambidextrous, holding one hand to the heart while counting on the digits of the other".
Freeman's paper answers its title question with a strong affirmative.
In answering their title question, Deleuze and Guattari seek to place philosophy in relation to science and art, all three being modes of thought, with no subordination among them.
"The lines between masculine and feminine are blurred," says Saville. "The agenda of this issue is to celebrate mankind and it's the Beautiful Savage answer to titles like 'Man of the World'Dapperper Dan', and 'Fantastic Man'.
