With admirable concision, you ask, 'What caused you to write The Book of the New Sun, and how were you able to do it?'- Gene Wolfe, "Helioscope," p. 217 in Castle of Days
Obviously, those are two questions sharing a single mark; and obviously too, both can be answered on a number of different levels. I might, for example, answer, 'Free will. And I own a typewriter.' But I think your readers might be impatient with both those replies.
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