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Why and Wherefore set one day / To hunt for a wild Negation.
They agreed to meet at a cool retreat / On the Point of Interrogation.
But the night was dark and they missed their mark, / And, driven well-nigh to distraction, / They lost their ways in a murky maze / Of utter abstruse abstraction.
Then they took a boat and were soon afloat / On a sea of Speculation, / But the sea grew rough, and their boat, though tough, / Was split into an Equation.
As they floundered about in the waves of doubt / Rose a fearful Hypothesis, / Who gibbered with glee as they sank in the sea, / And the last they saw was this:
On a rock-bound reef of Unbelief / There sat the wild Negation; / Then they sank once more and were washed ashore / At the Point of Interrogation.