what did he mean when he said “why is a raven like a writing desk?”?

in alice and wonderlandd?

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Miss Carissa August 19, 2010 at 12:35 pm

Well, latter in the chapter, the hatter says a phun spelling the word ‘never’ as ‘nevar’ (which is raven backward). But this was lost in publishing so its basically just a riddle with no answer.

JP August 19, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Riddles were all the rage with kids when the book was written, sort of like elephant jokes in the 1960s. It is a fairly simple riddle; I’m not sure where the idea that it had no answer was started.

How is a raven like a writing desk? They both have inky quills.

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