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alice in wonderland!!!! =]
is there an actual answer to the riddle in alice in wonderland? "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
Im pretty sure its made up but I really wanna know the answer! Its been bugging me for years.
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The answer to the riddle, from Alice In Wonderland, is that it has no answer. Apparently, from what I had been able to find out, Lewis Carroll (the writer) had been bugged about the riddle so much that in the preface to the 1896 edition of his book he wrote the following:
Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter's Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: `Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!' This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all.
Additional Info: In 1976 Carroll admirer Denis Crutch pointed out that in the 1896 preface quoted above, the author had originally written: "It is nevar put with the wrong end in front." Nevar is raven spelled backward. However, said joke did not survive the ministrations of the proofreaders, who, thinking they understood the author's intentions better than the author, changed nevar to never in subsequent editions.
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