combustive question mark

i was having some difficulties with question marks in my big book which i am editing at work. my problem consists of the fact that they exist in a reference text telling you the dates of a serial title that a particular repository is carrying in their archives.

you should be exact, i am querulous.

director boss explained to me though about this one serial’s dates listed like this, ‘1914-1941?’ which was published in shanghai.

see, he instructs, shanghai is very close to japan and after the bombings at pearl harbor, this serial might have stopped being produced suddenly with no warning. people were a little more concerned with the japanese invasion and war. but maybe it’s not positive when exactly it ended because 1942 or 43 issues could have gotten blown up in their entirety along with the legs and arms and bits of middle squishiness of the printer’s devil, you see, michele? you see?

i see now, i said, question marks indicate fear.