2.40
‘You implore us to ask the water (§1.39), as though it’ll somehow tell us if our orientation isn’t quite right. But what does this mean? What do we ask it?’
This is precisely the question!
What do we ask it? – That is, we can ask ourselves what we’re already asking it (‘what do we ask it?,’ i.e., ‘what are we already asking it?’). We can also go to water, for instance, and ask: ‘What do we ask here?’ (What can, what should we ask?)
Before any specific question seeking an answer, we should be puzzled by the question itself; we’re put into question through encounters. The questions leave marks: ‘?’.
Asking ‘What do we ask it’ puts our questions and us back into question. – What do we ask it?