Alas, what question? I cannot tell, Horatio.

Saturday, after my plans to research at the law library were thwarted by the presence of a mulicultural parade and fair in the civic center parking lot and generally all over Santa Ana, I was washing my car and thinking (I need to do both of these more often).

Along with creating negligence hypotheticals involving me, the soapy water from my car-washing, and the neighbor kid riding by on his bike, I did some dip tinking.*

Prominent among my thoughts was a compare-and-contrast analysis of the worldview behind the feminist slogan, "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle," and the worldview behind the lyrics of the Superchic[k]** song "Bowling Ball."

Somewhere in the middle of that thinking I started thinking about Hamlet. It was then that I realized that I had forgotten the question(!). While I was digging through my mental filing cabinet, trying to find the question (heh, how like a Jeopardy fan), I thought of some alternatives, spanning the entire range of what you could ___ or not ___.

There are quite a few options.

I finally remembered the question, which was, unsurprisingly, much more eloquent and thought-provoking than any of mine (so there's at least one writer in the English language who's more eloquent than I am).

And that's my car-washing story. The one part I still haven't figured out is what feminists, cycling fish, and "Bowling Ball" have to do with Hamlet . . .

*Leonard Q. Ross, The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
**Clicking on this link may expose you to sounds that I believe are in the category commonly referred to as "rock music"; how I ended up at that site is a different story and none of it happened while I was washing my car. Anyhow, "Bowling Ball" is worth listening to, regardless.