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Television

Babylon 5

Stuart Hannabuss has five questions for Mr Morden.

Even the simplest questions we ask ourselves can imply the deepest meanings and the direst consequences. The ‘how’ of the ways things work or the ‘why’ of the way things are crowd through the busy day for us all. Often there are no answers – or at least they are provisional, tentative, provocative, or unsatisfying. The questions we ask ourselves about past actions, present dilemmas, future plans are sometimes fleeting, sometime recurring; sometimes products of a stream of consciousness, other times the outcome of focused attention. They seem contained within our selves until we express them in words or action.

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