WARNING: SPOILERS!!
Disclaimer: Roses are red, violets are blue. Princess Tutu's not mine, and neither are you.
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Autor was eight when he first heard the name: Fakir. It was a funny name, he thought, fit for a mystic, wise and mysterious.
Wise, because mystics were always wise. Mysterious, because that was how his parents spoke of Fakir, secretly, hidden in dark corners when they thought he wasn't listening.
Autor sometimes caught snippets of their conversations before they noticed he was there. He was a curious boy by nature--he often found ways to remain unnoticed.
Even so, he didn't understand them. They talked in hushed tones about Fakirs and ravens and stories and princes. The boy did not understand, and it fascinated him.
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
He'd read the question in a book once, and it had sprung unbidden to his mind as he listened. It was a silly question, he knew, but he couldn't help relating it to this mystery.
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
He repeated the question to himself, over and over, like one of the songs he so ardently banged out on his parent's piano.
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Then, suddenly, his parents were gone, their existences snuffed out like candles--characters that were no longer needed.
And Autor was alone with his books and his piano. So he read every book he could obtain, and played every song he could learn, and never once wondered why things had happened as they did. But the question, the silly question, still echoed in his mind, harmonizing with his parents' funeral dirges.
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
Then he found the answer. It was simple, a single word.
Drosselmeyer.
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Author's Note: Also, as an added disclaimer, the question "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" is from Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland. I did not make it up, and, no, "Drosselmeyer" is not the answer. There actually is no answer, though some people out there have certainly tried. Ah well.
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