The philosopher Jean Hyppolite asked the Nietzschean question Qui parle. Who, or what, speaks through any event or moment? What is the foundation of anything, what is the ground of any certitude? If the answer is aporetic, how then do we proceed? The question has absorbed Kenneth Bernard through much of his later writings. In The Qui Parle Play, he engages the question directly, dramatizing the infuriating multiplicity and baselessness of all things, with poetic addenda to specific lines further complicating the matter, seeking at least rhetorical resolutions ("edifying discourse"), which might be all that are available.