Lewis Carrol discussion

Well, after reading Alice In Wonderland, we all know how much the Mad Hatter and the March Hare liked riddles (especially one certain riddle concerning ravens and writing desks). So why not start a thread filled with riddles to which we must guess the answer. Anyone is free to participate and even post up different riddles for us all to guess.
Here is the first:
Often talked of, never seen.
Ever coming, never been.
Daily looked for, never here,
Still approaching, coming near.
Thousands for its visit wait
But alas for their fate,
Tho' they expect me to appear
They will never find me here.
Who/What am I?

Tomorrow??

The Peregrine Shepherd wrote: "Tomorrow??"

Yes!!

omg you both just blew my mind.

Molly wrote: "omg you both just blew my mind."

:D
How did we blow your mind?

For the riddle of the Cheshire Cat's smile, please go to http://www.lewiscarroll.org/tag/david...

I know there wasn't technically supposed to be an answer to this one, but anyways...

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

I've speculated in the past that maybe it's because they both have feathers on them(quill pens, for the desk, if they were still using quill pens at the time...).

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LadyJane THE ANSWER IS .... I AM DEATH

LobsterQuadrille wrote: "I know there wasn't technically supposed to be an answer to this one, but anyways...

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

I've speculated in the past that maybe it's because they both have feath..." BECA-AWS THEY BOTH CAN HAVE CA-AWS FOR THOUGHTS

David wrote: "For the riddle of the Cheshire Cat's smile, please go to http://www.lewiscarroll.org/tag/david..."

A CAT WHO SHOWS CLA-AWS TO PA-AWS A SMILE...LOL

I know the official awnser to "why is a Raven like a writing desk?"
"Because it can produce a few notes,tho they are very flat; and it is never put in the wrong end in the front"

Salma wrote: "I know the official awnser to "why is a Raven like a writing desk?"
"Because it can produce a few notes,tho they are very flat; and it is never put in the wrong end in the front""
wrong...your answer makes no sense...

A raven is like a writing desk because Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both. Literally and in a literary way

Answers to the Raven Writing Desk riddle: Poe wrote at both, bills and tales are among their characteristics, both slope with a flap, both have inky quills, one is good for writing books and the other for biting rooks, one has flapping fits and the other fitting flaps.
Also, in 1896 - two years before his death - Carroll actually did provide the answer (slightly misquoted) by Salma above. "Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!" But Elisa is right, this doesn't make sense unless one notices Carroll spells "never" as "nevar". By the purposeful misspelling of "never" as "nevar" - raven spelled backwards - Carroll succeeds in making his nonsensical answer make some kind of sense, as well as having the added dimension of an allusion to Edgar Allan Poe. After all, if one puts the wrong end of the word in front, the bird will be "nevar-more."

I have a riddle but it doesn't really work when you write it down so I'll try... 20 people jump into a pool and 24 heads come out. How is this possible?



Answer:
20 foreheads like the body part.

My answer is horrible! Omg I'm not sure if I should type it?
I totally get your riddle, but that's not where my mind went.