r answering chords, whether in our customary canon, or elsewhere.
I can no longer continue to play on distant echoes and other impressions
that I seem to hear being harped back to me from my dim and dimmer past.

Here are the questions, with only such accompaniment as I need
to conduct the clearest faithful sense of their meaning to you:

(1a)  Is inquiry a fit subject for inquiry?

In other words:

(1b)  Is inquiry a subject that can be inquired into?

To render certain, normally understood, aspects of thi