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Question

why is a raven like a working desk

Answer 1

It is a famous riddle with no answer to it.
Author: Lewis Caroll
Alice in Wonderland

Answer 2

"Because they both come with inky quills

Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!'


Because Poe wrote on both."

"Because you cannot ride either one of them like a bicycle."

"Because neither one of them is made from aluminum,"


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 of course is raven spelled backward. Big joke!

Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes. (Puzzle maven Sam Loyd, 1914)
Because Poe wrote on both. (Loyd again)
Because there is a B in both and an N in neither. (Get it? Aldous Huxley, 1928)
Because it slopes with a flap. (Cyril Pearson, undated)


This riddle is very famous, although it is the rarefied kind of fame that entails most people never having heard of it. It comes from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Alice is at the tea party with the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse, when apropos of pretty much nothing the Hatter pops the question above. Several pages of tomfoolery ensue, and then:

"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.

"No, I give it up," Alice replied. "What's the answer?"

"I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter.

"Nor I," said the March Hare.

Alice sighed wearily. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."

At this point most of us are thinking, ho-ho, that Lewis Carroll, is he hilarious or what? But inevitably you get a few losers who say, well, OK, but I still want to know why a raven is like a writing desk. One sighs wearily. Guys! It's a joke! The answer is that there isn't any answer!

Answer 3

According to Martin Gardner, Carroll had no answer in mind when he first wrote this. However, Carroll did gave a solution himself, in an 1896 edition of "Alice": "Because it can produce very few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front." Note the spelling of "never" as "nevar." Carroll clearly intended to spell "raven" backwards. The word was corrected to "never" in all later printings, perhaps by an editor who fancied he had caught a printer's error. Because Carroll died soon after this "correction" destroyed the ingenuity of his answer, the original spelling was never restored. Whether Carroll was aware of the damage done to his clever answer is not known.

Other answers:
-Poe wrote on both.
-Both have inky quills.
-As to their likeness they might both be seen as omens of death. Certainly schooling and literary work have a tendency to kill individuality.
- They both have legs.
- Because they correspond! A writing desk is used to correspond. And a raven responds with a caw, a caw-response.
- Because the raven has a secret aerie and the writing desk is a secretary.
- "Dark wing site" is an anagram for "a writing desk".
- 'It can be found in a class with a "Writing Master".' (i.e. the bird otherwise known as a Yellow Hammer or 'Emberiza citrinella').
- 'It can be a little, curious standish (a portable Victorian writing desk)and curiously a little standoffish.'

Answer 4

You got it wrong the question is why is a Raven like a writing desk?

Answer 5

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Answer 6

It's "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" There is no answer to it.

Answer 7

They both use the DSS to support their habits?
I really have no idea
What is a working desk?
It's an inanimate object.

Answer 8

2 pts

Answer 9

there is no answer
you are clearly a film buff
and need to get some more interests in your life

Answer 10

Neither one can play the piano?