Raven And Writing Desk

"Why is a Raven like a writing desk?” the Mad Hatter asked in Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland. I have always been stumped by the many possible answers to this riddle. They both have a similar alliteration? Because Poe wrote on both? Carroll later offered his own answer to this absurd riddle. “Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in the front.” The misspelling of “nevar” backwards is “raven” you see.

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