When is a Raven like a Writing Desk? I don't get it!!! please help!!?

Question

I read Alice in Wonderland and Saw the movie but it just doesn't explain

Answer 1

There is no answer - though people have offered a few. Check out this website...

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_266.html

Answer 2

Lewis Carroll himself got bugged about this so much that he was moved to write the following in the preface to the 1896 edition of his book:

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, viz: `Because it can produce a few notes, tho 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.

Answer 3

There is no actual answer to this "riddle" - it was just another bit of nonsense penned by Lewis Carroll in the Alice books, like the poem, "The Jabberwocky". The best answer that people have come up with since the books were written, is "Both come with inky quills." (Inky can also mean black, and a quill can be a feather or a primitive pen.)

Answer 4

It was Carroll's version of Who's on First? No answer - just more questions. That is kind of the point. Sometimes one can ask questions to which there are no answers - they just generate more questions. Pax - C

Answer 5

Because Poe wrote on both