Why Not?

About 40 years ago, my elder brother, David, told me that his Philosophy teacher at Loyola College of Montreal (pre-Concordia) had offered a single question to his students for their final exam. As was usual for most final exams at Loyola, the Philosophy students reading this question were sitting in the iceless hokey arena with hundreds of other students from dozens of other disciplines. Row after innumerable row of small wooden desks laid out under the bright spotlights and fans humming and dangling above. As the story goes, most of David's classmates used up the permitted maximum 3 hours to express their answer in writing over pages and pages of the typical 24 page exam booklets. A few students actually asked for a second booklet in order to extend their answer beyond 24 pages of script. The question was, "Why?". One bold and confident student handed in his booklet after sitting the requisite minimum 30 minutes with an answer which was only twice as long as the question. It took up less than half a line of a single page. His answer was, "Why not?". According to David, that student received 75% for his effort. I always admired that fellow whoever he was. So, here I sit on a wet overcast Sunday morning in Brossard Quebec procrastinating on my annual autumnal garden work while starting my very first blog inspired by that bold philosophical nameless legend from my student days..."Why not?". It certainly appears to be a popular past time these days. Not that anyone should care, and not that my submission on blogger.com will have any relevance to the grade I shall ultimately receive at the end of life's final exam, but why not join the stream anyway and see what comes of it.
dc

p.s. mh doesn't know yet that I have started a blog which incorporates her initials. I'll fix that with hopes of gaining her approval failing which this may well be the first and final blog under the dc + mh moniker.