The Mad Tea-Party

From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The endlessly looping tea-party with the Hatter, March Hare, and Dormouse is the novel's most iconic set-piece, satirizing social ritual and logic.
Chapter 7

'No room! No room!' — the famous opening of the party despite an empty table, a study in arbitrary social exclusion.

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Chapter 7

'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?' — the unanswered riddle that has become shorthand for nonsense itself.

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Chapter 7

Time is stuck at six o'clock because the Hatter 'murdered the time' — a brilliant literalization of idiom.

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