Go Ask Alice
Cole and I went to the 3-D version of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland yesterday. Wonderful in every way, especially the hilarious Helena Bonham Carter.
"Tell me please, How is a raven like a writing desk?"
posted by Nick Manson @ 10:20 AM
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Max loves riddles so I posed it to him. His reply:
"Oh, that's from Alice in Wonderland! There was no answer given but I think it's because they both hold flat notes."
Per Wikipedia, "In Chapter 7, the Hatter gives his famous riddle without an answer: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Although Carroll intended the riddle to have no solution, in a new preface to the 1896 edition of Alice, he proposes several answers: "Because it can produce a 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"—turning it into "raven" when inverted. This spelling, however, was "corrected" in later editions to "never" and Carroll's pun was lost.)"
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