Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk?

L00py_T0ucan
L00py_T0ucan Posts: 1,378 Member
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Share your thoughts on why a Raven is like a Writing Desk?!

(^ This is a riddle that the Mad Hatter asks Alice at the Tea Party. Yes, I actually do know how to Google - lolz - I want to know if any of YOU have a clever answer...)

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  • KimmyD_TurboGirl
    KimmyD_TurboGirl Posts: 9
    Because The Raven is a poem by Edgar Allen Poe and he probably wrote it on a desk :-)
  • mamamudbug
    mamamudbug Posts: 572 Member
    Because Poe wrote on both :smooched:



    But the Mad Hatter said he hadn't the slightest idea... :wink:
  • MassiveDelta
    MassiveDelta Posts: 3,271 Member
    Think...mostly because ravens represent death and death is the adverse of life which is created naked on a desk
  • felice03
    felice03 Posts: 2,644 Member
    Think...mostly because ravens represent death and death is the adverse of life which is created naked on a desk


    heehee...naked on a desk....
  • MassiveDelta
    MassiveDelta Posts: 3,271 Member
    Think...mostly because ravens represent death and death is the adverse of life which is created naked on a desk


    heehee...naked on a desk....

    Of course!
  • MassiveDelta
    MassiveDelta Posts: 3,271 Member
    I killed this thread
  • cjpg
    cjpg Posts: 433 Member
    Lewis Carroll never intended on there being a meaning to this funny riddle. It was supposed to play on how being an adult somehow means in society that we must find meaning in everything. But he did have fun with it.

    He wrote in one of his later editions "“Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!” Spelling raven backwards in the answer was just poking fun IMO.

    Ironically, I do have a meaning to it that is possible:

    I think a raven is like a writing desk because they both symbolise seeing the future. Neither of them in themselves have any knowledge of the future but when they're communicated with hidden secrets are told. A raven has always symbolised intelligence and a harbinger of 'omens' either good or bad but its the witnesses of the raven that see the future, not the raven.
    A writing desk can also hold hidden truths but its the author who uses the desk and writes on it that sees the future, not the writing desk.

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