Why IS a raven like a writing desk?
Perhaps it is because like the raven, who mythologically represents a messenger of sorts, not the gatekeeper like the blackbird, but a courier carrying secret letters of transit that enable his passage beyond the borders of this brightly lit world, into the misty mountainous regions of the Otherworld, the writing desk symbolizes a conduit to another place and time, where hours and miles have different meanings, and where illusions become real and the real becomes mere wisps of ephemera.
The raven is a deliverer of news of great portend, that is conveyed simply to change one's current agenda by preempting one's standard broadcast with some bulletin of import. The writing desk too is about change - for the moment you have begun to examine something in enough detail to actually trouble with transcription of the experience you have already changed that something. The experiment has been altered, as the process of observation becomes part of the observed world.
Too, both raven and writing desk are scavengers, capable and willing of devouring almost anything. Both will indiscriminately use any substance for sustenance.
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