“Why Is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?”: Unriddling Lewis Carroll’s Most Perplexing Puzzle . AI-Generated.
Introduction: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma, Inside a Mad Tea Party
In the annals of literary history, few riddles have provoked as much curiosity, consternation, and coffeehouse conversation as Lewis Carroll’s notorious brainteaser, “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” First posed in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), the question emerges from the mouth of the Mad Hatter during a nonsensical tea party, and it quickly became one of the most iconic and confounding lines in children’s—and arguably adult—literature.
