What was Padgett Powell thinking?

Do you think it's possible to write a book using only questions?  Have you heard of The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell?  Would you believe me if I told you this 164-page book has no declarative or exclamatory sentences in it at all?  Do you think I can write this entire post using only interrogatives?  Will you keep reading to see if I can?  Would you like to see some examples of the questions from the book?  Do you think I will post some regardless of your desire to see them?

• Are your emotions pure?  Are your nerves adjustable?  How do you stand in relation to the potato? (p. 1)
• Wasn't the world better when the term "haberdasher" was current? (p. 18)
• If you had a loud 400 hp 1969 GTO with a Hurst three-speed on the floor and the Allman Brothers' "One Way Out" playing as loud inside the car, would you not be unstoppable not only in all the serious adolescent ways but even now in nearly all of the serious postadolescent pre-senile ways? (p. 41)
• Have I told you of the time my grandmother escaped the nursing home and I found her a block away on a door stoop expiring in the sun and she said to me, "What took you so long?" (p. 72)
• If you were given a fully restored cherry vintage automobile and a paid-for apartment in a foreign city and could have one other thing to go with these gifts, what would it be? (p. 97)
• If you heard someone say "In America, one word says it all," what would you expect that word to be? (p. 112)
• Does it change things a bit for you to perceive that these questions want you bad?  And that they are perhaps independent of me, to some degree?  That they are somewhat akin to, say, zombies of the interrogative mood? (p. 113)
• Why do "making hay" and "haymaker" have substantially different meanings? (p. 137)
• When a woman wears a pair of men's pajamas and removes the top, retaining the pants, do you find this a sexually stimulating outfit? (p. 153)
• Would we be happier if we had something we do not have, or if we were told something we've not been told, or if we said something we've not said, or if we did something we've not done, or if we did not have something that we do have? (p. 162)
• Are you leaving now?  Would you?  Would you mind?  (p. 164)

Does this all seem random?  Why would someone write an entire book like this?  Was there method to his madness?  Who would then publish such a work?  And, most importantly, who would read such a book, cover to cover?  Would you say such a reader was highly intelligent?  Is there a method to the reader's madness?

Are you curious about this book?  Curious enough to seek it out and read it?  Am I recommending it?  Would a recommendation from me make a difference to you?  What, I wonder, will you do now?