Holy Journaling Birds Batman!
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
This is a question that has puzzled the human race ever since Alice tumbled down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. The Mad Hatter - who I'd very much like to engage in a Batman and Robin-type of conversation with - poses this riddle at the tea party, then later replies that he hasn't the faintest idea regarding the answer.
I have a theory. First, let's deconstruct the two main players - the raven and the writing desk.
The raven is a black, large-beaked bird made famous by a "nevermore" refrain in The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe.
A writing desk is simply a plain wooden desk where one can sit and write or, in this day and age, type.
Therefore, it seems obvious that a raven is like a writing desk if only we were living in the medieval era. This was when writing with quills was popular.
A raven, therefore, is like a writing desk in that you can't have one without the other. In order to sit and write at the writing desk, you need the feather of a raven to use as a quill. In order for a raven to have a vocabulary of more than the single word "nevermore," it needs to learn other words by having access to them on a writing desk.
Duh, Alice. You totally should have been able to figure that out at the party.
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