The Beanworld is a strange and wonderful place. It's also very frustrating, since we only get to see bits and pieces of it. There are also sorts of questions awaiting answers. Here are some of the most common.

• The Big·Big·Picture

  • Are there more kinds of worlds beside pod'l'pool worlds?

  • Does the Thin Lake have boundaries?

  • How far down does Der Stinkle go?

  • What is the Jungle of Sleeping Sporeheads?

• Beans

  • Do beans get old?

  • There were originally 20 beans in the Beanworld. Now there are 18. What happened to the other two?

• Mr. Spook

  • What is Mr. Spook's origin?

  • Why does he look like a Hoi-Polloi?

  • Did Gran'Ma'Pa receive Hoi-Polloi reproductive propellant?

  • Why doesn't Mr. Spook understand Beanish's Look·See·Shows?

  • Why doesn't he like the Clang Twang?

  • What happened to his ForkQuest?

  • Will his fork ever be restored?

• Beanish

  • Where does Beanish go when he visits Dreamishness?

  • Is the water below part of the thin lake?

• Dreamishness

  • Why does Dreamishness want to become "something more"? What does this mean?

  • Why musn't Beanish tell anyone about her? Is this her rule, or a natural law?

  • Is she the sun? Is she in the Beanworld's sky, or some other world's?

• The Boom'r Band

  • How did the Boom'r Band break out? When?

  • How did they discover music?

  • Where did their instruments come from?

  • What are the boom'r bonnets they have on their heads?

  • Where did the boom'r bonnets come from?

• Hoi-Polloi

  • Why are left handed Hoi-Polloi so rare?

  • Are Hoi-Polloi just near the Beanworld, or are they everywhere beneath the Four Realities?

• Break Out

  • Does every world in the Big·Big·Picture have beings that break out?

  • Does every world have the same Break-Outs?

  • Can a bean get a name without breaking out?

• Ecology

  • What went wrong with the Beanworld's ecology?

  • How are things recycled?

• Gran'Ma'Pa

  • Why did the Sprout-Butt claim that the pod'l'pool Mr. Spook came from was dead?

  • Why can't Gran'Ma'Pa speak?

  • How often does Gran'Ma'Pa make a Sprout-Butt?