---
title: "...and I wish that your question has been answered"
description: "An iterative process of refusal towards PM Kryakos Mitsotakis and PM Mark Rutte's answers"
url: "https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/~grgr/api/and_i_wish_that_your_question_has_been_answered/"
colophon: "Carmen, Grgr, Miriam, Mitsa"
---




This is an act of persistent resistance. We created a few functions to facilitate an iterative process of refusal towards PM Kryakos Mitsotakis and PM Mark Rutte's answers during a Press Conference and any of their possible versions. We invite you to play as much as you want with these functions and create your own answers as counter-reaction to Mark Rutte's final sentence: "So this is my answer and I wish that your question has been answered".
Every new answer, every new iteration, can be submitted to our Archive of Repetitive Answers. Although they will never be good enough, nor shall they be accepted as exhaustive,  we consider the modified answers as a trigger for a never-ending dialogue.

Our tool is a filter to process and alter texts. By targeting specific words and replacing them, either for another word, for specific characters or for blank spaces, the reader or user of the tool can change the text in many ways. The tool includes three functions
The function “respell” receives as input a text (string type) and substitute all the occurrences of a target word with a replacement chosen by the user. 
The function “stitch” is very similar to the previous one but replaces all the occurrences of a target word with a single character (it can also be a blank space) that is repeated as many times as the length of the target. 
The third function “reveal” also works very similar but deletes all input text except the target word(s) and replaces the deleted text with blank spaces.




![text processing](https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/si16-app/static/img/mitsotakis_test.jpg)




### colophon
“...and I wish that your question has been answered.”

Mitsa (Dimitra Chaida), Erica Gargaglione, Carmen Gray, Miriam Schöb 

December 2021
