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serpientita about some really obscure text I did a report on in primary school entitled "Edgar's Ink Wit."
It simply stated the links between Poe and Dodgson (Carroll).
The basis was the ever-catchy riddle, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
There's a ton of answers, one of which leads to the anagram 'edgars ink wit' from the answer 'dark wing site'.
Answers:
(from a late edition of Alice) "Because it can produce very few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front." (notice that 'never' is spelled wrong, so it reads backwards, raven. this was corrected in all later editions, most likely because the editor failed to understand its worth)
Because there's a 'b' in both, and because there's an 'n' in neither. (Aldous Huxley)
Because 'each' begins with 'e.'
Both have quills dipped in ink.
Poe wrote on both.
They both have legs.
Because they both have two eyes/i's.
Because the raven has a secret aerie and the writing desk is a secretary.
Because each in its own way is a dark wing site. (where the anagram came from, along with the anagram "a writing desk")
It understands its tails and quills would nevar worc with the wrong end in front. (more backwards)
Why is a raven like a writing desk ?
Translates in French :
Pourquoi un corbeau est-il comme un bureau ?
Answer :
Parce qu ils font tous les deux de beaux rrou.
wow. that's enough, right?
serpientita about some really obscure text I did a report on in primary school entitled "Edgar's Ink Wit."It simply stated the links between Poe and Dodgson (Carroll).
The basis was the ever-catchy riddle, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
There's a ton of answers, one of which leads to the anagram 'edgars ink wit' from the answer 'dark wing site'.
Answers:
(from a late edition of Alice) "Because it can produce very few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front." (notice that 'never' is spelled wrong, so it reads backwards, raven. this was corrected in all later editions, most likely because the editor failed to understand its worth)
Because there's a 'b' in both, and because there's an 'n' in neither. (Aldous Huxley)
Because 'each' begins with 'e.'
Both have quills dipped in ink.
Poe wrote on both.
They both have legs.
Because they both have two eyes/i's.
Because the raven has a secret aerie and the writing desk is a secretary.
Because each in its own way is a dark wing site. (where the anagram came from, along with the anagram "a writing desk")
It understands its tails and quills would nevar worc with the wrong end in front. (more backwards)
Why is a raven like a writing desk ?
Translates in French :
Pourquoi un corbeau est-il comme un bureau ?
Answer :
Parce qu ils font tous les deux de beaux rrou.
wow. that's enough, right?
