This is a very old post, but I have to say I finally get what Douglas Adams was talking about in the Hitchhikers' Guide. I laughed like everyone else when people discovered the answer to the fundamental Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything without actually knowing the question - but I never spent an hour listening to someone who took it completely seriously. Frank seems to be asking a question without asking a question. Does he understand that "the question of Being" is in fact a noun phrase, not a question? It is unanswerable in the same way "the question of Bunny Rabbits" is unanswerable. What about Bunny Rabbits? Where's the verb, Mr. Frank? If you found the answer to your question, you would not even be able to recognize it as such.