“I didn’t answer your ‘why’? You’re awaiting an answer to your ‘why’?” the captain reiterated, winking. “This little word ‘why’ has been poured all over the universe since the very first day of creation, madam, and every moment the whole of nature cries out ‘Why?’ to its creator, and for seven thousand years4 has received no answer. Is it for Captain Lebyadkin alone to answer, and would that be just, madam?”
