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Originally Posted by issybird
 D'oh! The riddle from Alice, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
But I didn't know there was an answer! |
You are correct - there wasn't an answer ... originally .... none of the Mad Hatter's riddles had answers. That was the joke ... on Alice!
But readers & critics kept hounding Carroll for the answer to the riddles ... so he finally replied:
"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,: "Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!". This, however, is merely an afterthought; the riddle as originally invented, had no answer at all".
Tomfoolery will (sometimes) lead to victory!
Take it away Issy!