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Your cryptic ways have reminded me of the now famous Hugo episod with his publisher, as quoted below:

In ”Guinness book of world records” the worlds shortest correspondance is quoted. In 1862 the French writer Victor Hugo went to his summerhouse in the countryside, exhausted after finishing his novel ”Les Miserables”. After a few weeks of not knowing if the book had been released, if it sold and what the critics thought of it, he couldn´t control his curiosity, so he wrote a letter to his publisher.
The letter only consisted of: ?
The publishers answer a few days later read: !

 

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