Frank Kogan

You didn't even give your idea a chance to have legs, initially, because you didn't tie it to events and people. After I goaded you, you gave us the Nitsuh example, which brought clarity and also, to my mind, knocked down your phrase "never get answered"; but this doesn't knock down your overall question. I don't think the word "implicitly" flies, or walks, or applies, but that's no big deal. You can put the word "potential" in its place, e.g., "potential question that's somewhat addressed somewhat below the surface." The real trouble with your phrase "implicitly posed question that's addressed implicitly" is that it makes the reader, e.g. me, have to play a guessing game as to what such a question might possibly be and what its being addressed might look like. You can't just give us categories, especially one with as abstruse a title as "implicitly posed question," and assume that we'll be able to conjure up the events that belong in the category. I continue to wonder what your reasons are for not providing examples as a matter of course.

But I didn't mean to imply that you should go around engaging and calling out a lot of people in your rockwrite world, unless that's what you want to do. I do mean that if you want to communicate your ideas to anyone, for instance me, you have to give examples of what in the dickens might give rise to or support the ideas. An idea that can't be applied to something somewhere isn't an idea. How could anyone understand it? But in giving examples, you'll inevitably call out actual human beings (or, if you're going fictional, types of human beings). Of course, there's a good chance they'll never see what you write; but there's always the risk or promise (hey, maybe they'll like your critique, and of course an example or two of ours might actually be positive) that they'll run across it, and there you are. But you still don't have to engage those people, if you don't have good reason to.