Is there really an answer to this riddle?!


Question: Why is a raven like a wrtting desk?

Is there really an answer to it or is it just one of those if a tree falls in the forest kind of thing?


Answers: Why is a raven like a wrtting desk?

Is there really an answer to it or is it just one of those if a tree falls in the forest kind of thing?

This riddle is very famous, although it is the rarefied kind of fame that entails most people never having heard of it. It comes from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Alice is at the tea party with the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse, when apropos of pretty much nothing the Hatter pops the question above. Several pages of tomfoolery ensue, and then:

"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.

"No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?"

"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.

"Nor I," said the March Hare.

Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."

At this point most of us are thinking, ho-ho, that Lewis Carroll, is he hilarious or what? But inevitably you get a few losers who say, well, OK, but I still want to know why a raven is like a writing desk. One sighs wearily. Guys! It's a joke! The answer is that there isn't any answer!

There isn't an answer.

But some believe it's because that feathers were used to write with.

yes

I have heard that maybe Lewis Caroll said that because in those times things were written with long feathers dipped in ink and raven have long feathers. But I think that this riddle doesn't really have an answer like Lewis Caroll's most of the things but that is what is so beautiful of his.

One of the many with no answers!!!



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