riddle, n.All

A Riddle is a description of objects in ways that is intended to suggest something entirely different.

How can you take a bath without water?You sunbathe

The Riddle is essentially a charm in reverse: it represents the revolt of the intelligence against the hypnotic power of commanding words.

The Riddle is not described but circumscribed, a circle of words drawn around it.

What has a head, a tail, and no body?A coin

What's got a trunk, four legs and lots of keys?A piano up a tree

The Riddle is their egocentricity, their isolation from the rest of literary experience.

If stockings are filled with presents on Christmas Eve, what are they filled with the rest of the year?Feet

Where was the Constitution signed?At the bottom of the page